Beyond our perceivable reality?

[Conrix]

I would say that I'm surprised that nobody made a topic of this nature here, but either we're focused on issues that concern our immediate reality or such a thread has thrived in Off-Topic since it has been deemed too stagnant.

Dreams that a friend has been having - of a character who can manipulate the border of fiction/reality and enter dreams, which were had before the character and franchise were even conceived - has not only rekindled an interest in multiple universes theory and other theories that say there's way more to reality than we think, but has made me truly and unironically believe that Gensokyo is real and is basically one of life's private hax servers. Nobody has tangible evidence of any other universe existing, but if we could keep a wormhole open long enough and make it affordable, it would just be a matter of getting off our asses and seeing these realities where one of us is actually Batman or whatever. I did read somewhere that they were working on wormhole technology but I don't have a link to the page off the top of my head.

What do you Kiwis make of multiple universes and other such theories? Are they interesting? Are there too many problems in our reality for them to be worth looking into? Or am I just being like Chris and his Toontown?

 

[Eldritch]

We hear plenty of new agers talk about higher dimensions and stuff, but they seem to know a little too much about them. We hear quantum physicists propose branching timelines; but we have no idea how and if it works, unless we develop a theory of everything.
By way of Occam's razor, I'd have to say I don't believe in alternate realities.

This is off topic, but your grammar was kinda confusing at some points, is English your first language?

 

[Yog-Spergoth]

Sometimes, I like to think that the Copenhagen interpretation exists (any time something can happen, an alternate reality is created where it does happen, extremely simplified). I know it's probably not true, but it makes me happy to think that, in some universe, somewhere, all of our loved ones are still alive and well.

Haha, kinda stupid, I know.

 

[Conrix]

We hear plenty of new agers talk about higher dimensions and stuff, but they seem to know a little too much about them. We hear quantum physicists propose branching timelines; but we have no idea how and if it works, unless we develop a theory of everything.
By way of Occam's razor, I'd have to say I don't believe in alternate realities.

This is off topic, but your grammar was kinda confusing at some points, is English your first language?

Most of the Higher dimension stuff I heard from new-agers was about crystalline dimensions and such, though personally I'm more interested in multiple universes, hidden worlds and such but I wouldn't dismiss the crystal dimension where we're all 4 dimensional beings as a possibility either per the Copenhagen model. I do see where Occam's Razor would say that we shouldn't believe in it until we develop a theory of everything, but even then the actual steps to getting there involve experimentation with quantum physics, particles, etc. which could either kill us all or give evidence of realities beyond what we're living.

Also English is my first language, the OP was written at 4 in the morning as I was trying to fall asleep so I admit it's messy.

 

[Eldritch]

Most of the Higher dimension stuff I heard from new-agers was about crystalline dimensions and such

lel, look up "spirit science" on youtube. he did a series of videos where he professed some of the more... outlandish claims of the new age movement. it seems a little odd to me when they claim with utmost certainty that you can astral project into the 5th dimension and talk to angels. I also recommend the videos he did about Atlantis' invasion by martians.

 

[Conrix]

lel, look up "spirit science" on youtube. he did a series of videos where he professed some of the more... outlandish claims of the new age movement. it seems a little odd to me when they claim with utmost certainty that you can astral project into the 5th dimension and talk to angels. I also recommend the videos he did about Atlantis' invasion by martians.

This is the kind of thing I mean by "and such" actually. There may have been a few decent points in that first pile of stupid on "thoughts", like "think about what you want and adapt your daily life towards it, and you'll get it" which is simple cause and effect, but it really didn't need 12 minutes full of new-age bullshit to get that point across. Unless of course it's to sell a book.

 

[Yog-Spergoth]

Ooooh, we're talking about that kind of "other dimensions".

Machine elves are watching you from the sixth dimension.

http://non-aliencreatures.wikia.com/wiki/Machine_Elf

"You come so rarely. We're so glad to see you."

 

[exball]

Just a quick reminder imaginary time is a thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_time

 

[Ariel]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics is a thing too

 

[Yog-Spergoth]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics is a thing too

Disagree, mechanics do not exist.

 

[Abethedemon]

I'm writing a story involving alternate dimensions. It's called My Cat is an Atheist.

 

[OBAMATRON]

David Icke has it all figured out.

 

[Stratomsk]

Sometimes, I like to think that the Copenhagen interpretation exists (any time something can happen, an alternate reality is created where it does happen, extremely simplified). I know it's probably not true, but it makes me happy to think that, in some universe, somewhere, all of our loved ones are still alive and well.

Haha, kinda stupid, I know.

Its a nice sentiment surely, but a non-scientific theory with as far as I know very little evidence to support it due to its nature. That being said, the idea that a new universe is inevitably created with every new action creating infinite variations I find to be interesting to ponder.

 

[Yog-Spergoth]

Its a nice sentiment surely, but a non-scientific theory with as far as I know very little evidence to support it due to its nature. That being said, the idea that a new universe is inevitably created with every new action creating infinite variations I find to be interesting to ponder.

Granted, I don't have the math to confirm, but I think they say the math checks out for it. Apparently one of the more interesting ramifications of this theory is that gravity is kind-of a shadow force that is just the reflection of another force from a different dimension...