Saturday, August 30, 2008

Bleep! Bleep!!

Actually I didn't know how to title this post.

Let's get to the matter at hand. Has any one of you ever felt it weird that whenever anything occurs, only one of its many possibilities occur and in the end only one of all possible results end up happening? I did and that is exactly what prompted me to write this post. Why should anything with remote possibilities ever occur? (no, I am not talking about India's series win over Sri Lanka recently).

How remote is it for a person to meet up with another without prior planning? About one in 6 billion. And yet it happens. Why? Okay, maybe I am boring all my readers by posing questions instead of giving any answers, so let's get right down to it.

All of us maybe aware of the basics of relativity, i.e, everything will be perceived differently by different people, subject to varying surroundings. This still does not explain everything in quantum mechanics, so there is a new theory called 'String Theory', stating that every dimension in the universe is connected by some kind of invisible 'strings' (I'm not very sure about it, so any correction is welcome), which requires the existence of at least 70 different dimensions (compared to the 4 we know as of now : length, breadth, height and time).

I assumed that one universe is capable of being made up by 4 dimensions, so you can calculate the minimum number of universes possible, as per the string theory (I say 'minimum' because there is no rule fixing the maximum number of dimensions), which are mutually independent of each other in existence. There can also be universes made of 'matter' and also their exact opposites made up of 'anti-matter', to complicate things further.

So coming to think of it, each universe could be a replica of every other universe in its basic form and structure, so one can expect to find so many 'Earths' in each of these universes. So any event that occurs in one universe can very well occur in the other universes and each result is mutually independent, so that the repetition of results in the other universes is almost impossible (this, in fact, forms the basis to one major research area known as 'quantum computing'). So the result that remains and is not canceled out by its occurrence in the other universes is what remains,and occurs in our world.

Isn't this non-repetition of results also very curious? What controls these assigning of occurrences to each of the universes, and are these universes interconnected?

These universes can be interconnected via blackholes (because once the object is accelerated to the speed of light at the singularity governing the blackhole, it cannot be deemed to be existing in our universe anymore), and that exchange of information between adjacent universes is indeed plausible, though not possible yet.

Now comes the interesting part. All scriptures talk about heaven and hell and how they are connected with the mortal world. Now, isn't it possible that heaven and hell are just two of the yet to be discovered numerous universes, connected by singularities, through which one way travel is possible...now, that is some food for thought. (Someone strong in maths can please do the necessary calculations beginning with the initial singularity as an exponential function of time, distance and a solid angle to prove or disprove what I said). And going by these, the concept of God is pretty pertinent, at least to avoid the interference of the possiblities in the other universe and also to maintain this enigma.

So, there goes one of my childhood fantasies on record (this has been bugging me for the past 10 years or so), and am expecting some good ideas on it.

In case of any befuddling terms that I may have used in the article, please refer Wikipedia, or just Google it. You can find far better results than what I possibly could explain.

PS : ..and if you didn't get the joke in the title (yes, it's a joke)...check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness_causes_collapse#Consciousness_causes_collapse

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Hey Quantum curiosities have led to the development of the theory of "Multiple Universes" - a very controversial and complex finding.I guess the idea was put forth by Hugh Everett.Chk out his explanation if u can get hold of it.In simple words multiple universes interact continuously with each other.So thrs one world whr u write this blog and in another u dont.Hope u ll read it and write a second part 2 this interesting topic.

Swaminathan said...

yes...these universes do interact with each other...which is why i postulated that the occurrences are not repeated, leading to all our perceived anomalies...but are mutually independent...that is the existence or annihilation of one does not affect the existence of any other...i have to do further research on this, and all that i may have stated may not be watertight, since what i wrote is what i could remember of since my 6th std...