You can't "mathematically prove" anything other than mathematical theorems. If you could, string theory would be "proven" by now, since it has reams of math to back it up. The math let's you make predictions, but those predictions have to be validated by hard data.
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Did Oxford scientists mathematically prove parallel universes?
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If you had so many universes, close to or at an infinite number, then I suppose every second one of the infinite universes takes off in a different direction. But if that were the case, then there would have to be an infinite number of universes that still exactly matched. So would each different universe have an infinite number of matched universes so each second in time a different universe could emerge while each had matching universes to birth slightly different ones or would we be in one of the different universes so that the example applied to another universe but not to ours?
You can see where this gets ridiculous real fast.
So either this idea is nonsensical or the example is not a useful description and this makes sense to those string theory astrophysicist types but not to people like me.
My understanding from reading about it is that this infinite number of possible universes are not distinct and seperate but instead overlap and interfere. None of them have any meaningful probability of occuring on their own. Only when the interference between groups of the infinite number of universes is very small or zero do you get distinct and seperate possibilities. These have meaningful probabilities of occuring and at least one does as we experience that.
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If you had so many universes, close to or at an infinite number, then I suppose every second one of the infinite universes takes off in a different direction. But if that were the case, then there would have to be an infinite number of universes that still exactly matched. So would each different universe have an infinite number of matched universes so each second in time a different universe could emerge while each had matching universes to birth slightly different ones or would we be in one of the different universes so that the example applied to another universe but not to ours?
You can see where this gets ridiculous real fast.
It may seem ridiculous, but that is exactly what the idea is. What you have slightly wrong is that there aren't an infinite number of identical universes, there is only one of each. Every single interaction causes a universe to split into two (or more) seperate ones. This means there are an infinite number of universes, but they are all different. Some are extremely similar, having had only one very recent interaction that split them, while others are very different, having had time for the spilt to really make itself felt.
Personally I think it's a rather silly theory. Even though it's mathematically correct, it violates Occam's razor about as much as is physically possible. If creating an infinite number of new, seperate universes every single step of time is simple, I really hate to think what complex looks like. It also causes problems with conservation of energy, what with creating an infinite amount of it every time particles interact, and quite possibly fails the falisification criterion.
One other point is that it's not actually "anything goes" as is usually the case in sci-fi. Anything that can happen, does happen, but there are still many things that can't happen, and they don't, not in this universe or any other.
Okay... how did Oxford's theory predict the universe creation...
1.) It just appeared out of nowhere and expanded and expanded at an ever increasing rate...
2.) It will expand then contract then expand and contract as it had indefinetly in the past and will in the future
3.) Other...
INRM
1.) It just appeared out of nowhere and expanded and expanded at an ever increasing rate...
2.) It will expand then contract then expand and contract as it had indefinetly in the past and will in the future
3.) Other...
INRM
Okay... how did Oxford's theory predict the universe creation...
It doesn't say any more about the creation of the universe than theories about evolution say about abiogenesis.
Also, I just thought of something...
Doesn't this parallel universe theory kind of mean that there technically is no randomness for each universe and that each universe is sort of pre-destined?
INRM
No.