"'Stranger Things': How Realistic Are Parallel Worlds?" Topic
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Tango01 | 25 Aug 2016 10:00 p.m. PST |
"The hit new series "Stranger Things" is more than just the 1980s throwback we've all been waiting for. The show centers on a group of kids who are trying to solve a string of mysterious disappearances in their small town, but they soon realize that not all is as it seems. In fact, the kids soon realize that the spooky occurrences may actually be stemming from interactions with an alternate world. While a sinister parallel universe like the one on the show "Stranger Things" may not be hovering over our own, the basic idea of an alternate world echoes concepts of multiverses that theoretical physicists have proposed for decades, experts say. [Top 5 Reasons We May Live in a Multiverse] The idea of two parallel worlds that are slightly different, and can even interact, has been a mainstay of physics theories that have sought to explain quantum mechanics, gravity and other unexplained aspects of the natural world, researchers say…" More here link Amicalement Armand |
Dave Jackson | 26 Aug 2016 3:45 a.m. PST |
Robert J Sawyer is brilliant at envisioning the workings of a parallel world, slightly different than our own. His "Hominids" trilogy is brilliant. |
Patrick R | 26 Aug 2016 5:41 a.m. PST |
If you work out parallel worlds, you soon figure out something is very wrong with certain assumptions. You're unlikely to run into your double or evil twin as this would require all of your ancestors not only to collectively choose the exact same partner, to all conceive at the right time so the right sperm fertilizes the right egg, nobody dies prematurely or any other conceivable break in the sequence. It only takes one of you parents to accidentally walk under a bus to make sure there is no counterpart. So once you change history like "No Dark Ages" or "No Roman Empire" or an extra World War would probably take the world on an entirely different tangent so as to be mostly unrecognisable. Ditto for parallel worlds with "cosmetic" differences where everything looks like Art Deco or the Roman World lasting up to this day. |
wminsing | 26 Aug 2016 6:44 a.m. PST |
Well that's covered in Everett's theory; the branching realities theory is that every possible chance or decision creates a new reality, so while there's an essentially infinite number of realities were you don't exist, there's also an essentially infinite number where you do exist. Basically, if we're reality A, and Reality B is that Hannibal beat the Romans and there's no Roman Empire, then yea, there's probably no Reality B version of me. But if Reality C is that Bob decided to order decaf coffee yesterday morning instead of regular, then yea there is a Reality C version of me. Yes, it gets weird. -Will |
Dynaman8789 | 26 Aug 2016 6:48 a.m. PST |
To answer the question – they are unproven and so far there is not a shred of evidence that they exist so they are unrealistic. Some of my favorite Role Playing game memories of are parallel worlds so I don't give a rip. |
EJNashIII | 27 Aug 2016 9:51 a.m. PST |
The idea hinges on the shear size of the universe. If the universe is infinite or near infinite in size, yes such a parallel or near parallel world could exist. However, why would it be at the same point in it's timeline or happen to be physically reachable in some way? In a 14 something billion year old universe even 1% off in the time line is 140 something million years off on the time line! However, like Dynaman, if we are talking fiction or games does it matter if they are real or reachable in real life? |
Dynaman8789 | 27 Aug 2016 10:35 a.m. PST |
I've not watched the show but I think the parallel worlds exist in parallel universes – not in our universe. Reminds me – I have to fire up Netflix tonight and watch this. |
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