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Ask Ethan: Have We Finally Found Evidence For A Parallel Universe? - Forbes
May 22, 2020 2 mins, 44 secs

We can imagine a very large number of possible outcomes that could have resulted from the conditions...

The fact that all 10^90 particles contained within our Universe unfolded with the interactions they experienced and the outcomes that they arrived at over the past 13.8 billion years led to all the intricacies of our experiences, including our very existence.

It is possible, if there were enough chances, that this could occur many times, leading to a scenario that we think of as "infinite parallel Universes" to contain all possible outcomes, including the roads our Universe didn't travel, but we can only observe the one Universe we have.

For some of us, the idea of parallel Universes spark our wildest dreams.

Perhaps particles, fields, or even people could be transported from one to the other, enabling us to live in a Universe that's better, in some ways, than our own?

These ideas have a foothold in theoretical physics as well, from the myriad of possible outcomes from quantum mechanics as well as ideas of the multiverse.

Recently, a claim has surfaced asserting that we've found evidence for parallel Universes, and Jordan Colby Cox wants to know what it means, asking:.

There is an article floating around that claims that physicists in Antarctica have found evidence for a parallel universe.

They first arose in the context of quantum physics, which is notorious for having unpredictable outcomes even if you know everything possible about how you set up your system.

One remarkable idea â€” known as the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics â€” postulates that all the outcomes that can possibly occur actually do happen, but only one outcome can happen in each Universe.

It takes an infinite number of parallel Universes to account for all the possibilities, but this interpretation is just as valid as any other.

The Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics holds that there are an infinite number of...

[+] parallel Universes that exist, holding all possible outcomes of a quantum mechanical system, and that making an observation simply chooses one path.

A second place where parallel Universes arise in physics is from the idea of the multiverse.

As time goes on, more Big Bangs â€” all disconnected from one another â€” occur, giving rise to an uncountably large number of independent Universes: a multiverse.

There simply aren't enough Universes created by inflation to hold every possible quantum outcome owing to the interactions of particles within an individual Universe.

Unless, of course, you've read the headlines that came out this week, reporting that scientists in Antarctica have discovered evidence for the existence of parallel Universes.

It's a grandiose claim that would show us that the Universe as we currently conceive of it is inadequate, and there's much more out there to learn about and discover than we ever thought possible.

So what was the remarkable evidence that demonstrates the existence of a parallel Universe.

So where, in all of this, do the parallel Universes come in.

This idea has no evidence behind it and plenty against it, but that rarely gets discussed.

It strongly suggested something is amiss with the first experiment, and more science will help us uncover what's truly occurring. For now, based on the scientific evidence we have, parallel Universes will have to remain a science fiction dream.

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