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Written by Ted Speaker
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Monday, 01 September 2008 |
So there's this guy, Brian Greene, physics and mathematics professor and director of the Institute of Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics at Columbia University. And he has a theory that we exist in a parallel universe(s), sort of...
There are a lot (and by a lot that means a number so large it can't easily be expressed) of particles in the universe. These particles collide, fuse, have parties, exchange business cards, etc and some may turn into other things, like for example, life. While there are really really really a lot of these, and hence really really really a lot of possible combinations of these particles, the possible combinations are finite. Therefore, being finite they can, ummmm, repeat themselves (after another really really really large number of cycles). So the theory is that in another unseeable universe (or 4th dimension if you will) there is a guy sitting on his couch that looks just like me, typing a blog about a unseeable and unknowable part of the universe where a guy just like him in a unseeable and unknowable part of the universe is...you get the idea.
This messed my head up for a while. If you want the full (and much clearer) explanation check the radio lab podcast from 8/12 right here. |