Wrap your mind around this... your doppelgänger probably is too

N8Magic

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I don't have the time to read through all 9 (!) pages right now, but i'll check it out when I get home.

Looks interesting.
 

Spoooon

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I wonder if my doppelganger is getting laid right now instead of posting on Anandtech.

edit: Reading all this (not just this article, but other discoveries in physics and astronomy), it seems like we're on the cusp of some sort of breakthrough. And we're all going to be dead before any fruits come of it.
 

ThaGrandCow

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Kind of like the theory:
If an infinite ammount of monkeys typed for an infinite ammount of time on typewriters, they'd eventually bang out shakespeare's works.
 

MacBaine

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Originally posted by: ThaGrandCow
Kind of like the theory:
If an infinite ammount of monkeys typed for an infinite ammount of time on typewriters, they'd eventually bang out shakespeare's works.

Any they would eventually bang out your Social Security and Credit card numbers ;)
 

ProviaFan

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Haven't seen it before, but it appears to be some pretty thick stuff, so I'll save it for the morning. :)
 

bubbadu

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Holy sh*t

"If so, black holes do not destroy information but merely transmit it elsewhere. "

-Bubbadu
 

Moonbeam

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Thanks for the bump, Marty. Very interesting. I feel sorry for my doubleganger that didn't finish reading, while recognizing that elsewhere another me understood far mor than I. :D

The basic idea, sort of, is that physical theories of the nature of the universe are complicated rather than simplified by the notion that this is the only universe:

In this sense, the higher-level multiverses are simpler. Going from our universe to the Level I multiverse eliminates the need to specify initial conditions, upgrading to Level II eliminates the need to specify physical constants, and the Level IV multiverse eliminates the need to specify anything at all. The opulence of complexity is all in the subjective perceptions of observers--the frog perspective. From the bird perspective, the multiverse could hardly be any simpler.

Four types of multiverses are postulated. The bird represents a higher dimensional view of the universe than the frog who is in a single thread of a particular universe. The hows and whys of each of the four types are facinating and the whole thing hangs on whether mathematics and the nature of reality are intertwined.
 

Spamela

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whenever i visit another city in the US i look in the phone book for people with my (real) name.
so far, i've found about 5.

i never call any of them, though. what if "I" answered?
 

Spooner

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Argh! I tried reading it, but the words started running together near the end of the first page. My attention span isn't what it used to....... hey, is that a bird?