What if I sent that email yesterday,
What if my friend took the road not taken
What if you voted for the other candidate
What if….
Choices, Choices, Choices, and so many decisions. These tiny decisions impacts us in a compounded way. Who knew that you could have won the lottery, if you drank an extra glass of water 2 days ago, which might have lead you to go to the washroom, reminding you of checking your emails, then finding out the discount coupon and thus shopping, then you redeemed the receipt for a lottery ticket… oh well that “never” happened.
But what if it did happened and we are living in the alternate-one? what if there’s a whole another world that’s basically running parallel to what we are doing? What if for each action we take a whole universe splits into 2 or infinite? That’s the foundation for the parallel/multiverse theory.
Unlike the normal universe we all think we live in, in a multiverse scenario, every possible action already took place with every possible reactions, all the way from pre-universe to end of it. And since everything already occurred, then its safe to say that there will exist a timeline where a monkey basically typed out the complete works of Shakespeare ! Poor monkey. And since that’s possible, then its reasonable to say that a monkey wrote this exact blogpost 2 seconds before deadline … how meta.
Apart from the maths side, philosophically, this would mean that every action we take, already occurred and there is no “free will”, where all choices are already determined from beginning of time to end of it. doesn’t matter if you took the red pill or blue, both scenarios already occurred. (well, the matrix would be a boring movie in the alternate timeline, or maybe the internet wasnt a thing)
However, There’s a slight break/paradox to this… If there exist infinite universe, with everything already occurred, then there 100% exists a universe where there is no multiverse, breaking the entire space time conti—- ….. whatever.
Now that’s mind boggling!
You said it man – my mind is boggling! I appreciate how many movie references you always put into your posts. When you were explaining the multiverse theory, I couldn’t help but think of Avengers Endgame (I think that’s the one where Dr. Strange explains this theory to the Hulk? Idk there’s so many Marvel movies, I can’t be sure, lol). Its a bit daunting to think of my own mortality and all of reality like this. But I think its also a bit reassuring to know there may be multiple Laurens out there somewhere, at least one of which is making better life decisions than me *laugh emoji*.
Hi Samarth!
This was a super interesting and mind boggling post. I have heard the terms “parallel universe” and “multiverse” thrown around several times, but I have never really understood what the theory entailed. Your wording in the post was great as you explained the theory but did not get bogged down in the details. I can definitely see that you have a passion for science. I will be interested to see what your future posts are about! I also really enjoyed the pictures throughout the blog (especially the monkey). Great post!
This is such a unique topic for a blog post! The idea of multi universes is one I have thought about but not too in-depth. I have also thought of it as a way to explain the Mandala effect rather than each of my choices creating a new reality. How else do you explain Looney tunes versus Looney toons! I think the reason I avoided approaching the idea of a multiverse that way is that would mean that every choice I make, even the little ones, has the ability to create a universe where everything could go wrong.