• Question: are there multiple universes

    Asked by to Andrew, Elaine, Emma, Michael, Nancy on 20 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Nancy Carlisle answered on 20 Jun 2014:

      I think this would be a good question to ask in the Astronomy zone!

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      Andrew French answered on 20 Jun 2014:

      I have absolutely no idea!

      How would you know?

      As a thought exercise, you can think of every option you are given as creating a new possible ‘universe’ spawned from the curent one. So, if I say, do you want to go to the park and you say YES, that’s one possible universe brought into existence. If you say NO, another one is created. In one you go to the park, and in the parallel one you don’t!

      Multiply this by the number of options for every person and indeed everything which can determine its own destiny (I guess, animals), AND by every possible universe in existence – thats a lot of possible universes!

      But we’re into philosophy here. And my head hurts. 😀

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