Parallel Universes

[nailit]

Just watched this video (below).
A bit mind boggling but very interesting. Just wanted to know how widely accepted this idea is among physicists? Or is it a fringe science kind of thing?
Thanks.

[nailit]

[woofgang]

I think its widely accepted as a possible scenario.

[bednobs]

i dont particulary wan to watch the vid, but i saw brian cox last year and he was saying that "multiverse" is quite widely accepted

[nailit]

Thanks for quick replies guys. I was also going to ask someone to explain it to me in simple lay mans terms but my head is messed up enough as it is :-)

[nailit]

//Where do you think lost socks and dropped lighters go?//
And teaspoons Spath. Don't forget teaspoons...

[bednobs]

when i saw BC it made perfect sense. 30 seconds later however ....

[nailit]

Spath, have a look at my thread here about things going missing
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1549691.html

[Cloverjo]

Weird. We bought a load of rulers for 5p each a while ago because there's never a ruler around when you need one. Can we ever find one now? No.
Same with biros. When my dad's company changed its name he came home with hundreds of pens branded with the old name, now useless (except as pens). Has he got one in house now? No. What is going on?

[nailit]

Theyre all in a parallel universe clover, lol.
Seriously tho, if you've read through the link above, you will see that all the photos that I had of my deceased friend have just vanished from my photo collection. Very odd (and unnerving)

[jim360]

I think it would be a bit soon to call the idea "accepted", but it's certainly not pseudoscience. As a rule of thumb, a scientific idea should only be accepted if it's been properly tested, and I really don't think that this has been tested properly yet.

There are (at least) two very different "parallel universe" ideas, though, and it's important not to confuse them.

[Kidas]

Broadly, there is nothing in the theories that precludes a multiplicity of multiverses (can't really call them multiple universes), but there is no evidence for that multiplicity.

Neither is there any evidence that there is only one single universe.

It's one of those areas where, since we have no evidence one way or the other, scientists can't really make any pronouncements one way or the other.

[-Talbot-]

nailit
Spath, have a look at my thread here about things going missing
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1549691.html


If I were a mod I would delete that thread.

[nailit]

Would you Talbot?
Why?

[-Talbot-]

Spath, have a look at my thread here about things going missing

[nailit]

Talbot, why would you have my thread removed?

[atalanta]

At least I know where all the teaspoons have gone. I've got them. No idea how - the drawer just seems to have teaspoons everywhere.

[chelle7272]

I'm assuming Talbot means as then the thread would 'go missing'?