Can Parallel Universe Theory Help Predict the Future?
Some theories talk about the universe as in a constant state of quantum flux (Heraclitus and Parmenides jump to mind so this idea is being recycled for a long time…). Parallel universe theories further suggest that with every decision point a new parallel universe is created for every path not taken.
For example if you grab a cookie and eat it, immediately there is a parallel universe created where you did not eat that cookie and remained thin and beautiful. Or if you save someone from drowning you created an alternative parallel universe where you let him die.
This is cool to think about but apart from messing up with our mind has no real perceived impact on our life experience and does not further our understanding of the universe around us. It’s just another crazy idea that cannot be proven nor can it be refuted.
What if we can find a way for this to become relevant to our own lives?
Let’s add another assumption. As this is already just a crazy idea, making it just a little more crazy cannot harm.
I have a theory that almost all these spontaneously created parallel universes collapse to cancel each other as they are created. All but the one that we experience currently which may also help predicting the future if we understand what prevents a collapse at a decision point. Much like light is reflected from a mirror to all angles but we only see it at 90 degrees because the other reflections cancel each other out.
If we believe the parallel universe theory it means we should eliminate our legal system as our actions have no meaning. Whatever we choose there are infinite number of alternative versions of us on other parallel universes going through all the other possible options and facing every possible consequence.
Doing something good means you force an alternative you that was about to do that good thing to take an evil alternative because you eliminated that option for him. If you do something evil, you are causing an alternative you to do something good by eliminating that option from his alternatives.
If we look into my addition that all these universes collapse and disappear but a chosen one we are both allowing parallel universes as well as maintaining a single timeline that is edited from shots chosen from un-collapsed parallel universe for each decision point.
The question that becomes interesting for our real existence is what can make one parallel universe to collapse and another to survive and continue our experience of life as we know it.
It is not a question of good or bad or morality as becomes painfully obvious from our existence…
What can it be?
Can we predict what will happen in the future by understanding which quantum parallel alternative will survive? Can we map
the future according to the magnetic signature of our decisions or some other freaky criteria?
Think about it…
