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Current Talk '06 II / Re: In parallel time, Collinwood is older
« on: November 02, 2006, 11:36:48 PM »yet I don't think that actual, real physics supports the whole parallel thing.
That's not quite true. And I said earlier, the current physics of String Theory proves mathematically that parallel universes can and probably do exist. Though, of course, that doesn't necessarily mean that every physicist supports String Theory (or M-Theory, as it's also called). But then, even within the scientific community itself, skeptics have and always will exist, and it often takes the truth to be pounded into them before they'll finally accept it. I mean, there was a huge backlash against believing that electricity and magnetism are related, and we all know how that worked out. And even Einstein was skepitical to outright disbelieving about some things that have since been proven to be true and are perfectly accepted today.
One person who definitely supports String Theory is physicist, mathematician, professor and author Brian Greene. He had a wonderful three part series on the PBS science series Nova back in 2003. Check out the Web site: NOVA: The Elegant Universe. And in particular watch chapter 4 from hour 3: Parallel Universes
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Greene theorizes that some parallel universes might even have their own separate laws of physics. So, it should be fairly easy to accept that comparatively innocuous things like fashion and architecture could have evolved differently as well.