Friday, February 24, 2006

Is our universe about to be mangled?





Now Hanson, an economist who also studies physics, is taking a new approach. He argues that these multiple universes are not actually independent, as was thought, but interacting and sometimes destructive.

Quantum theory states that all universes are not created equal - each "parent" universe is much larger according to a particular quantum measure than its later descendants.

Quantum interactions between the universes were thought to be too small to really affect them, but Hanson says the interactions can be significant between universes of vastly different size.

(Via KurzweilAI.net.)


Awesome. Reminds me of the climax of Jack Womack's "Going, Going, Gone."

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