Re: virus: Real World?

Alex Williams (thantos@decatl.alf.dec.com)
Thu, 2 Jan 1997 11:23:12 -0500 (EST)


> Yeah, I understand that, but what I mean is where does the universe on the
> right exist, without intruding on the universe on the left. If they
> inhabit entirely different points of space /outside/ our own universe,
> then I can see that it could exist, but then there would be the problem
> of moving this "new" universe through massive ammounts of space in an
> infintesimal space of time (excuse the phrasing :). Therefore the only
> other option is for the new universe to co-exist within the same space
> as the old universe. If all dimensions interact (like space-time for example)
> then surely there would be no way to separate matter from our dimension and
> matter from another.

Yes, entirely different points of space outside our (linear) universe.
You /don't/ move anything when it splits off, of course, they simply
spring, fully formed into being. At every branching this parallel
universe (or these universi) come into being like branches splitting
off of a twig. Don't think of it as an analog process, like
macrocosmically observable phenomena, its a discrete phenomena.

NOT all dimensions interact. For example, it takes significant energy
for me to broach my transportation in our fourth dimention, time; even
then, I can only affect it by compressing the relative passage of my
time and another reference frame's. The dimention in which MWH
universi split is simply defined as being non-interactive.

> There are other problems I can see with the MWH that seem to break standard
> theories on matter and energy. Niether matter nor energy may be created or
> destroyed. Therefore why should another you suddenly begin to exist due to
> a quantum event (I'm still fuzzy on what that is defined as, can anyone fill
> me in?)?

A quantum event occurs at any time a quantum wave collapses into a
state. Yes, there are a lot of quantum events.

Actually, energy /can/ be borrowed from the sub-quantum `froth'
according to the latest theories. The shorter the amount of time its
borrowed, the more you can have. Theoretically, energy could come
into being in almost any amount purely randomly ... but its
hyper-rare.