Lately, I've been thinking about quantum mechanics a lot, and I've come up with a couple of questions that I think can make a great discussion.

For those of you not familiar with Everett's Many Worlds theory, it states that for every action you perform or every decision you make, an alternate "world", or universe, is created in which the opposite happens. There's more complexity to it, but I'll leave it at that because it can get very confusing.

Ok, so I've come up with three questions that are great for a discussion:

1. If you make alternate dimensions through your actions and decisions, doesn't that mean that the alternate dimensions can do the same, creating billions of realities?

2. An explanation before the question. For every action taken, the opposite is done in another universe. That would mean that when someone dies in our universe, their body will live in another. If the body in that other universe dies, it creates another universe itself in which the body still lives. So the question is, do we live forever? In a technical sense, of course. A more appropriate question would be, does our presence exist forever?

3. The BIG question which is the real reason I made this topic a discussion. Do you think our reality is an alternate dimension of another, or are we the influence of all the other dimensions that exist?

Please, refrain from saying that the theory isn't true. I never said it was, I'm just asking questions that would pertain to the theory if it was an actual fact.

In alternate universes you would expect such similiar theories to surge, therefore if there are such thing as other dimensions created by ourselves and our actions, there is probably someone making the same exact question ( or the opposite ).
Lets then try to answer your questions, from my point of view of course.

1. If we, with your actions create an universe in wich the opposite occurs, we should realize that whatever action those people in the other universe would do, would also create an opposite action wich would be equal to our own.
Try to understand my line of tought.

Human A from Universe A does an Action. Human B from Universe B does the exact opposite.
Human B from Universe B does an Action. Human A from Universe A does the exact opposite.

Action A = Opposite B --- Action B = Opposite A

Each dimension would complement each other in my point of view. It's an equilibrium.

2. I do not think our presence lasts forever, simply that our death creates another life on the parallel universe.

3. As you could read behind I only believe to exist 2 dimensions. Our own and the parallel one. So I also believe that they are influenced by one another. Then again comes the equilibrium.

There, hope I contributed for the discussion. =)

Well I don't know alot about quantum mechanics but some things don't seem to add up from my point of veiw. Fistly if someone learns something in 1 universe dose that mean someone in another universe has to forget that what the first person learned? If so then how would the person who forgot have learned in the first place? But it might just be because the universes are in different parts in time. But if thats true then wouldn't the universes be created in different times? But if they were then another universe must have been destroyed but I can't figure out how that could happen(but I don't know alot about this sort of stuff). Secondly if I'm typing this messgae then another person in a different universe must be deleting the same message. But that wouldn't be able to happen anyway because when we created the computer the other universe must have lost all of their computers somehow so he wouldn't be able to delete this message on computers he dosn't have. But I'm probbably mistaken by what you mean "opposite".

No, you made the decision to post that, but in another universe, another you decided not to post at all. See, it's confusing from there, but the whole meaning behind Everett's theory has to do with electrons moving in a certain order, opposite from each other and such. I won't go into it, but yes, it's confusing.

Thanks for the contribution Astro, but it wasn't necessarily what I was looking for. It was your perception of realities, when I wanted answers to do with Everett's theory. But it's ok, and you stated your opinion very well. Thanks! ^_^

Do you think our reality is an alternate dimension of another, or are we the influence of all the other dimensions that exist?

I'd say, based on the normal level of human arrogance, that we are the cause of all other existances.

Bacon: I dont think that the decisions are literal. So computers being made in this dimension (or whatever you want to call it) doesnt mean everyone destroying their computers in another... because that would mean that the other dimension had to invent computers first in order to then smash them to pieces. Maybe its just decisions made in one existance are made in another and are almost completely identical but there are small differences.

But this is so open to speculation I dont think it really matters. If there is an alternate reality parallel to our own that means that 6 million jews won fabulous prizes in the holocaust.

Lately, I've been thinking about quantum mechanics a lot, and I've come up with a couple of questions that I think can make a great discussion.


definitely something i think about..

cool kid!

and there is blatently other realitys. This is just an alternate reality of another, and they are all in a circle. or just jumbled about, who knows, but I wanna find out how to switch to another cos the free mmo's in this one suck ***.

i think theres an infinite amount of worlds and that the timeline is actually branching out instead of going into a straight line and that each world comes from every single possibility leading into a different future. for example, this world is 1 of many in which matrin luther king gets assassinated whereas in another world, he does not get assassinated causing a different future in which segregation does not end until maybe 20 years after it ended in our world

idk i was jus thinking along as i typed lol

I think Jesus is real.

I think Jesus is real.

That's speculation as well, and what scientists have theorized is that if God does exist, there are two possibilities of his watching us. Either one, he can jump through the different realities and view them as he wants; or two, he views all of them at one time, keeping track of the events in every reality.

@Deimos: Your first statement makes sense, and because we're so arrogant, we would naturally believe we are the first of anything.

And yes, this is open too speculation. That's why I made a discussion, to see what your views on the subject were. :p This is the kind of stuff I like to question and formulate opinions on. ^_^

@Nancy: Yes, the concept you have is right. Where in this reality, MLK was assassinated, in another he may have lived. But there are also other possibilites of other universes. Where MLK gave his speech in this reality, in another he may have not, and the slaves may not have been freed. As Deimos said, this is open to speculation.