Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Multiple Worlds Theory

There is a theory that multiple universes exist one on top the other, parallel, never to intersect with one another. This is based on the theory that an electron within an atom is at all places at once. It is nowhere predictable, with no routine path of travel, yet is everywhere, it moves so quickly and with such randomness that it travels every possible path. If an atom can be nowhere and everywhere at once, so the theory states, so could the entire universe.

I’ve read that according to this theory with every choice we make our world splits into a parallel universe, one take one path, the other takes the other.

If I decide to take a walk, then in another universe there is a me deciding to stay at home.

Accordingly, with the theory, parallel implies that these entire states of being never intersect. Into infinity.

Sometimes I wonder:

Is there, in some other universe, a “me” that has made the right choice every time a choice was encountered? Is there a “me” that always knew or could somehow understand that there was a better choice, and rather than make the mistake… avoided it? What is that “me” like? Is she successful? Is she happy? Has she reached some sort of glorious existence that I will never realize?

Has she never hurt any of the people she’s loved? Has she graduated from school? Has she been good at everything she encountered, or has understood that she cannot be good at everything and is ok with that? Is she stronger? Smarter? Faster? More beautiful? I wonder if in some other “me” that I’ll never meet, whose path I will never intersect, there is a goodness to such an ultimate degree that I cannot even fathom.

If, in a parallel universe, there is a version of myself that has always been right… Does that mean there is also one that has always been wrong? And every time she was to make a choice she dubiously made the wrong one? Were all of her errors in earnest, because she knew no other way?

Is that “me” truly me? Am I that one? Is there a possibility that that could somehow be the universe in which I exist? The one who only makes mistakes because vision has been clouded with delusion and thinks that wrong is right and right is wrong?

If I could understand these things, would I be a different person than I am today? Right now?

In a parallel universe do I not have to wonder about these kinds of things because I am granted the confidence of knowing that I always made the right, better, and smarter decision?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You are absolutely right about this. Totally depressing theorem.

Anonymous said...

But I guess it makes sense since the guy who created the theorem was really depressed.