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Jonas ([personal profile] westedge) wrote2023-06-10 12:50 pm
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[personal profile] medeian 2023-06-13 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[tilting her head curiously]

Well - I imagine if you didn't have anything similar, you must have made more advances in natural science and technology to make up for it.
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[personal profile] medeian 2023-06-13 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, it's definitely interesting.

[...]

You ever heard of the Many Worlds Interpretation?
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[personal profile] medeian 2023-06-13 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[how the turn tables..... anyways, it's time for a nerd explanation. it's always time for a nerd explanation with her. sorry to jonas specifically.]

It's like... Okay, it's a little bit complicated, but. Every time some kind of quantum experiment happens, it has so many possible different outcomes, right? Like, for example - if somewhere way out in the universe, a star explodes during a supernova, it might seem like it has no impact on us. But the conditions for that explosion and the conditions for it not to explode could both theoretically exist.

So, many worlds interpretation is basically the idea that, like - there are so many different decisions and actions that could split the world into one where that action took place, and one where that action didn't take place. And while it's never been proven, there's nothing essentially disproving that every time something like that occurs, it creates another split. Another world comes into existence where everything was the same up until the moment of that choice, but different afterwards - maybe in small ways, maybe in big ways, depending on what happened.
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[personal profile] medeian 2023-06-13 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[thinking about that for a moment.]

Well... If we're talking about the world itself, not choices people make, I don't know whether I would say anything is meant to happen in the first place. Things operate based on entropy more often than not. The world is chaotic, and most of the time things just happen because they happen. But to your question - yes, I think it's definitely possible that if this idea is true at all, it's not just human action that would cause a split.
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[personal profile] medeian 2023-06-14 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I don't know if that's definitely the cause of all this, but the idea that there are so many places that are similar but with distinct differences makes me think about it, you know?
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[personal profile] medeian 2023-06-15 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I wish there was a way to study it directly...

[nerd]
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[personal profile] medeian 2023-06-15 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
It could. You'd only be overwhelmed for as long as it took to absorb the information, though, and then you'd have learned something exciting.
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[personal profile] medeian 2023-06-16 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
Well - trust me. There's plenty about the world I don't get, either.

[all the same:]

But if you've ever got any questions, I'm your girl.