WHAT IF IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER? OR PERHAPS IT ONLY MATTERS FOR YOU, THE YOU THAT IS READING THIS. TO BOLDLY GO...

"Not only are persons spread out through worlds, but they, like everything else, are quantized through time in any given world. Time is a series of moments, and a person who exists at a moment exists there forever in four-dimensional spacetime, rather than being transformed continuously through the flow of time. Such change and flow are mythical, Deutsch argues. The argument doesn't strictly require the multiverse hypothesis, because deterministic physics since Newton has implied that the openness of the future is an illusion, and consequently that free will is an illusion...There is a branching of these me-copies that validates my sense that my future is open, in contrast to spacetime physics. However, the open future of common sense is a myth. There is no flow of time dividing the actualities of the past from the unactualized potentialities of the future." Such is the premise of David Deutsch's book, "The Fabric of Reality" in which he explains a potential basis for existence, multiverse and time travel possibilities (that do not involve going forward or backward in time; but rather through to a point on a differing, yet parallel universe.)  Sound like a load of bovine manure? Don't dismiss it, especially given that 30% of the planet believes in a Supreme being on the basis if faith alone. There are many notable scientists who believe in the concept of parallel universes, multiverses where all permutations of reality exist. The implications certainly would shift our perspective, don't you think?  If you knew that no matter what you did, a variant of you, in one of these universal points was doing one of the possible variations, it negates the value of your individualistic effort on the one hand, while liberating you of the need to have everything remain significant. Why are you here? Why do we have life? Where is the universe contained? Is it a where? If time and space offer a curvature, certainly it removed the need for a physical boundary. Endless space is really endless in a linear fashion and finite in manner by which it warps and wraps upon itself in differing levels, or planes of existence, like a doughnut roiling about in the hot oil as its shape is defined. The question of when it starts and ends becomes irrelevant as it just "is."  That would certainly alter René Descarte's "I think; therefore I am," and replace it with "I am; therefore I am." Without spoiling the plot for the new Star Trek movie, the device used to propel this series forward involves that very line of rationale. It is not so much an alternate reality as it is a shift in the perspective of the reality. What is real is where you happen to be. If this is my reality then anything else would be an alternate. If I went there and existed there, then that would be my reality and this would be an alternate. Get the point? I always maintained that the purpose of life was more than just exiting for the sake of existing, or existing for the sake of eating (as many in our population seem to favor as a religious trend of its own accord.) The complexities and the nuances of life and existence should be the subject of school curriculum. To be able to engage in a reasonable discussion of philosophy and theoretical physics should be more of a common practice than simply learning standards and benchmarks designed for the masses. The simple fact that learning (at school) becomes a chore is reflective of the whole philosophy of teaching that implies solid content draws learners to it. In truth, teachers with a passion for learning draw students to test out their own passions. In other words it is not what you teach so much as how you teach it.  If you doubt that think back to the one or two teachers you had that still stand out in your mind. Why? It was not the lesson they taught; it was the manner in which they taught the lesson. If you want to read a PDF on parallel universes that is quite good click HERE.  Physicist Michio Kaku, whose book "Physics of the Impossible" I have referred to before, can be seen on the History Channel show The Universe explaining the whole nitty gritty on parallel universes. Watch the videos below.. Is there a parallel MisterWriter? Watch the video... Stranger than any fiction could allow... An infinite number of parallel universes, all of which are slightly different. Where would they exist? What space do they occupy? Here and now. Like multiple television channels on the same cable, space and time are connected. Who is to say that we have absolute territorial right to the spatial location we are in?  Humans have a tendency for absolutes. Reality offers few absolutes. Even death is an uncertainty. Click on the items above or in the box on the right side of this blog to learn more or to purchase them. You know that in one of the realities you already did! MisterWriter