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Originally Posted by worth
Ok, so here's just a general discussion topic I though of while reading a Scientific American article. For some reason, SA has decided to send me articles to get me to purchase a subscription again...I think I had a subscription like 6 years ago...anyway...
The article they sent me was on Parallel Universes. Now this is a subject that interests me a lot. Maybe that's because I watched a lot of Sliders in my day. Anyway, i've read a lot of books on the subject and in reading this article I wondered what others in this thread though of any of the multiverse theories?
The idea that there are an infinite amount of universes is one that has always intrigued me. Where every single possibility for every single atom is experienced. That is God right there.
So what theory do you subscribe to? Being able to empirically test these theories is always the challenge, and perhaps one day we can say for certain that we live in a multiverse, but what's your guess?
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It's an awfully contrived theory. The problem with string theory and its derivations (besides the dimensional explosion) is that they're impossible to test (so far).
There are some new theories popping up, such as causal dynamical triangulation, loop quantum gravity, and deformed quantum field theory.