If the universe consists of an infinite number of parallel universes.....

[NotAllThere]

If you have a parallel universe why would everything be slightly different (as they are on telly where everyone has a counterpart).....if there some slight differences millions and millions of years ago this would lead to a totallly different world....i.e. a mutant ape a bit more intelligent than the rest of the clan falls off a cliff so stopping evolution to man.

Let me the first to say - that's the world we're in, isn't it.

[Paddy]

If you have a parallel universe why would everything be slightly different (as they are on telly where everyone has a counterpart).....if there some slight differences millions and millions of years ago this would lead to a totallly different world....i.e. a mutant ape a bit more intelligent than the rest of the clan falls off a cliff so stopping evolution to man.

At a parallel universe today I exposed myself to the girls in HR. I don’t know what came over me. I was promptly arrested and taken to court by a taxi driver. The judge awarded me £500 to get treatment at a local pub. The police said they would pick me up a take me home afterwards .

[NotAllThere]

At a parallel universe today I exposed myself to the girls in HR. I don’t know what came over me. I was promptly arrested and taken to court by a taxi driver. The judge awarded me £500 to get treatment at a local pub. The police said they would pick me up a take me home afterwards .

Do they know what came over them?

[hyperD]

Let me the first to say - that's the world we're in, isn't it.

As someone who has unplugged from the matrix, I agree!

[darmstadt]

Do they know what came over them?

Hopefully not these guys

[hyperD]

Hopefully not these guys

darmstadt - your animated avatar was dancing perfectly in time to Frank Sinatra's More (Theme from Mondo Cane)!

Sorry, a slight o/t to the thread but I had to post my findings!

[darrenb]

I don't really understand all the hatred of Sasguru ; he seems a nice enough chap to me.

To me too. In a parallel universe.

about a googolplex permutations removed from our own.

[kingcook]

Given that God is infinite, and given that the Universe is infinite... would you like a toasted tea cake?

[BolshieBastard]

If the universe consists of an infinite number of parallel universes where each conceivable option throughout the last 13.7bn of existence is simultaneously played out, wouldn't logic state that in one of those parallel universes parallel universes don't exist?

If the theory of an infinite number of parallel universes hold true, then yes, one such universe would exist.

And therefore, we would have a paradox.

[BolshieBastard]

If you have a parallel universe why would everything be slightly different (as they are on telly where everyone has a counterpart).....if there some slight differences millions and millions of years ago this would lead to a totallly different world....i.e. a mutant ape a bit more intelligent than the rest of the clan falls off a cliff so stopping evolution to man.

Things would be different because in those 'other' universes, you have made a different decision. So for example, in one universe you take the decision to go contracting, in another universe you dont and stay permie. In another universe you select a different permie career path, in another you accept one contract but in another, you turn it down. Etc, etc, ad infinitum.

In any number of paralell universes, mankind doesnt exist because the evolutionary branch went extinct, in another homo erectus never developed, in another neanderthals succeeded and homo sapiens died out etc.