From Scientific American, 2003:
Is there a copy of you reading this article? A person who is not you but who lives on a planet called Earth, with misty mountains, fertile fields and sprawling cities, in a solar system with eight other planets? The life of this person has been identical to yours in every respect. But perhaps he or she now decides to put down this article without finishing it, while you read on.
The idea of such an alter ego seems strange and implausible, but it looks as if we will just have to live with it, because it is supported by astronomical observations. The simplest and most popular cosmological model today predicts that you have a twin in a galaxy about 10 to the 1028 meters from here. This distance is so large that it is beyond astronomical, but that does not make your doppelganger any less real.
What are the implications of this news?
I think that we ought to take the initiative and have the first known multiverse award ceremonies for best dressed, most influential, most ethical, best social programme etc. I used to think that the popular imagination could do with a chemical fix, but it seems like that may no longer be necessary.
Is there a copy of you reading this article? A person who is not you but who lives on a planet called Earth, with misty mountains, fertile fields and sprawling cities, in a solar system with eight other planets? The life of this person has been identical to yours in every respect. But perhaps he or she now decides to put down this article without finishing it, while you read on.
The idea of such an alter ego seems strange and implausible, but it looks as if we will just have to live with it, because it is supported by astronomical observations. The simplest and most popular cosmological model today predicts that you have a twin in a galaxy about 10 to the 1028 meters from here. This distance is so large that it is beyond astronomical, but that does not make your doppelganger any less real.
What are the implications of this news?
I think that we ought to take the initiative and have the first known multiverse award ceremonies for best dressed, most influential, most ethical, best social programme etc. I used to think that the popular imagination could do with a chemical fix, but it seems like that may no longer be necessary.
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Im not typicaly a contrarian but while a multiverse would solve a couple quantum physics problems like how a possibility is expressed and others are not its a bit early to say that this is even a plausible theory its a speculative hypothesis right now at best. I would personaly think that was interesting if it was proven But because of technological limitations we are far from being able to falsify or prove it as a fact.
