While the multiverse theory is scientifically established, there is another side that some have noticed exists. I am of course talking about the religious side of it. Someone commented on my first blog saying that the multiverse theory required one to believe in the big bang theory because it cannot agree with religion. This is simply not true. “Each bubble is a Universe. If the bubbles were rare, they would never collide and we'd never know the existence of the other Universe. In that case, search for a multiverse is just fiction. If however, they are not rare, they may collide” (Bucklin 1), which means that there are many universes that are fairly close to each other. Astronomy.com described them as bubbles, but what if you look at them like rooms in a hotel. There are many of them and they are fairly close to each other. Jesus said, “There are many rooms in my father’s house.” (John 14:2). How do we know that this is not what he meant? What if when one travels to “heaven”, they were allowed to be the god of their own universe? Then, is it possible that the God of this universe is just a mortal like us that was promoted to a god in a higher level of existence? If that is the case, does that mean that an infinite hierarchy of Gods that create other gods through their universes? Is there one “boss” at the top of it all? Max Tegmark describes the multiverse in four levels. Level I is all observable space in our universe, level II is other regions in our universe that we do not know of, level III is outside of our universe, where quantum mechanics help make up other universes, and level IV is a space where any mathematical structure is able to exist. It has also been discovered that all universes are created constantly from something, whether it be from each other or something else. Therefore, it is possible for the multiverse theory to exist alongside religion. Also, this theory of mine is possible in any religion as long as it contains a “god” and a “heaven”. So, do you believe in my theory or do you think I am just someone with too much time on their hands? Be sure to tell me in the comments below.
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One common misconception of the multiverse theory is that parallel universes and string theory are the same. This is partly because of movies and other entertainment which consider them to be the same. They are not the same because of their different scientific definitions. The existence of parallel universes are only because of the multiverse theory. The theory of eternal chaotic inflation generates the parallel universes which make up the multiverse. The parallel universes are one theory of how the multiverse is structured. They show that space time is flat and continuous, which means that all of the universes are in some way connected. This is also why they are called “parallel” universes because they are literally parallel of each other on the plain of space time. In comparison, the way the multiverse was shown in my previous blog was that all of the universes are bubbles that are side by side in space time, but they are not connected in any way. These are simply two different theories that depict the multiverse in two different ways. They do not disprove the multiverse any more than they support it. However, string theory is completely different. String theory states that sub atomic particles, such as protons, neutrons, and electrons, do not exist, and are replaced by small strings. It says that the strings are so small that they cannot be viewed with the most powerful instruments, and that they vibrate to establish a particle’s size and mass. “At the same time, as Einstein's famous equation E=mc2 tells us, there is a relationship between energy and mass” (Redd 1), which means that an object’s vibration also has a relationship to its mass. String theory relates to the multiverse because it attempts to limit the number of dimensions that can exist in the universe. If string particles can limit the dimensions of this universe and they are different from those in another universe, then the multiverse theory could be physically proven. While string theory and the idea of parallel universes are different, they are also similar due to their connection to the multiverse theory. “In string theory, the multiverse is a theory in which our universe is not the only one; many universes exist” (Jones 1), and technically one theory of those universes is the idea of parallel universes.
Contributor, Elizabeth Howell Space.com. "Parallel Universes: Theories & Evidence." Space.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Mar. 2017. Contributor, Nola Taylor Redd Space.com. "String Theory: A Brief Overview." Space.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Mar. 2017. "String Theory: Parallel Universes and the Multiverse." Dummies. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Mar. 2017. https://www.flickr.com/photos/amishsteve/100954210 My name is Harrison Laws. I am a fifteen year old high school student at CCS. If you couldn’t figure out by the title, I am writing this blog on the Multiverse. The reason I chose this topic is because the concept of it is very interesting to me, as well as the fact that I feel a sort of responsibility to inform the general, ill-informed public of things they probably don’t know. The theory of the multiverse states that new universes are being created constantly, that no two universes are exactly the same, and that there is theoretically an infinite number of universes that exist.
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