I've always hated this trope --- where does the matter from the multiple universes come from?
If it's always existed, why doesn't it interact with ours?
If we can "borrow" computing power from parallel universes then aren't they also able to borrow such from our universe?
Under what circumstances does an object exist in multiple universes? What prevents one from existing in one while it exists in another?
H. Beam Piper wrote extensively on this in his "Paratime" novels, but it just got weird and creepy and exploitative, and I still don't see explanations for the above questions.
It seems more likely that there is an extra-dimensional aspect of existence which is instead being exploited.
>The point of this comment was to say that many-worlds (or "multiverses", though I dislike the term) isn't nonsense. But it also isn't exactly the kind of sci-fi thing non-physicists might picture. Given how easy it is to misinterpret the term, however, I must agree with you that a self-aware science communicator would think twice about whether the term should be included, and that there may be not-so-scrupulous intentions at play here.
would argue that misleading terminology is being used, and that what is being made use of is not what one would consider a parallel universe/alternate timeline in the sense of recent movies, but something quite different.
Hey Bronsky - do you still have the link to the Google claim? The underlined items just come back as "This site can't be reached."
Data mining where no one has gone before ...
I've always hated this trope --- where does the matter from the multiple universes come from?
If it's always existed, why doesn't it interact with ours?
If we can "borrow" computing power from parallel universes then aren't they also able to borrow such from our universe?
Under what circumstances does an object exist in multiple universes? What prevents one from existing in one while it exists in another?
H. Beam Piper wrote extensively on this in his "Paratime" novels, but it just got weird and creepy and exploitative, and I still don't see explanations for the above questions.
It seems more likely that there is an extra-dimensional aspect of existence which is instead being exploited.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42371545
which notes:
>The point of this comment was to say that many-worlds (or "multiverses", though I dislike the term) isn't nonsense. But it also isn't exactly the kind of sci-fi thing non-physicists might picture. Given how easy it is to misinterpret the term, however, I must agree with you that a self-aware science communicator would think twice about whether the term should be included, and that there may be not-so-scrupulous intentions at play here.
would argue that misleading terminology is being used, and that what is being made use of is not what one would consider a parallel universe/alternate timeline in the sense of recent movies, but something quite different.