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Orodhromeus · 04-13-2002, 10:58 AM

Gorothlammothiel, what was being discussed was science, not spiritualism or science-fiction.
Theoretical models support the existence of universes with more than 4 dimensions, or where time runs backwards (cause follows the effect - naked singularity). But ours has 4, including one that could be only one-way (ie time). Gravity was explained before a "Unified Theory" was even sought for, and gravity doesn't involve parallel universes at all. The Bermuda Triangle never existed, in my opinion; no more ships & planes dissapeared there than in any area of the Earth.
Parallel universes were created just because of that "what if". What if Nazis had taken over the UK in 1942? Would the World War Two have ever ended? How different the world would be in 2002? To answer such questions, one imagines the course of events that would follow if that takeover would have happened. Nothing important happens in Normandie in 1944. USA can't successfully strike back. Japan keeps Oceania, China & Indochina hers; Germany rules over Europe. USSR is attacked on 2 fronts and eventually succumbs. Boy, I'm going far, I like speculating dystopia! My point is that parallel universes were nothing more that a good way to tell stories, a scenario twist. But as it often happens, science-fiction inspired science, and science considered looking if that parallel universe idea could be true. And the search still goes on. Whatever popular opinion might think, nothing has been proved yet, but many serious people think parallel universes might exist.

Maybe you'll call me close-minded, but I don't think I am. I believe in parallel universes, though maybe not in the interaction between two. But too much nonesense is being said in the topic of spiritualism, so much that I've lost faith into it.

04-13-2002, 10:58 AM	#11
Orodhromeus Wight Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Greece Posts: 106	Gorothlammothiel, what was being discussed was science, not spiritualism or science-fiction. Theoretical models support the existence of universes with more than 4 dimensions, or where time runs backwards (cause follows the effect - naked singularity). But ours has 4, including one that could be only one-way (ie time). Gravity was explained before a "Unified Theory" was even sought for, and gravity doesn't involve parallel universes at all. The Bermuda Triangle never existed, in my opinion; no more ships & planes dissapeared there than in any area of the Earth. Parallel universes were created just because of that "what if". What if Nazis had taken over the UK in 1942? Would the World War Two have ever ended? How different the world would be in 2002? To answer such questions, one imagines the course of events that would follow if that takeover would have happened. Nothing important happens in Normandie in 1944. USA can't successfully strike back. Japan keeps Oceania, China & Indochina hers; Germany rules over Europe. USSR is attacked on 2 fronts and eventually succumbs. Boy, I'm going far, I like speculating dystopia! My point is that parallel universes were nothing more that a good way to tell stories, a scenario twist. But as it often happens, science-fiction inspired science, and science considered looking if that parallel universe idea could be true. And the search still goes on. Whatever popular opinion might think, nothing has been proved yet, but many serious people think parallel universes might exist. Maybe you'll call me close-minded, but I don't think I am. I believe in parallel universes, though maybe not in the interaction between two. But too much nonesense is being said in the topic of spiritualism, so much that I've lost faith into it.