Life in the multiverse - which is why modern physics to be immortal, we must
Written by Ingo in IQ , Science , tags: multiverse , physics , immortality Physicists recall experiments, whose outcome they hope to gain insight on the nature of our world. To speed up, for example, particles in particle accelerators kilometers to nearly the speed of light to capture the collision of these particles in the resulting new particles.
Another experiment proposed by physicists, however, would not require milliardenteueren devices and still allow significant conclusions about the universe. Unfortunately, the physicist must, however, to play Russian roulette, so to put a loaded gun to his temple, where only one chamber is filled with a bullet and pull the trigger several times, and every time he turns the drum at random. Adoption Is a current modern physics, the experiment would have to survive a physicist conducting the experiment, no matter how often he would perform in a row. Thus, the physicist would have a proof of his own immortality, and yet would flow in the lab a lot of blood. How so? First some background.
This experiment has a deep origin suggests that more and more physicists, that we live in a multiverse, a universe in which there is not only a reality, but several. This assumption has decades of history, for it ultimately derives from the many of us out of school well-known two-slit experiment back. One that is bombarding two parallel column with a stream of particles - such as photons - is then on a photo-screen behind a characteristic pattern of light, called a diffraction pattern. That pattern suggests a rather paradoxical fact: A single particle can pass for common sense in this experiment, either one or the other column, it actually seems to happen both at once. A particle can thus be not only one but at several places at the same time. (The famous Heisenberg uncertainty principle has nothing to hereby).
In the so-called Copenhagen interpretation was attempted in 1927 to resolve this paradox by deciding that a particle in an infinite number of places staying first and only in case of measuring its position for a "decision". This interpretation is, however, for many physicists are increasingly no longer tenable. You suspect that the particle stays at the same time an infinite number of positions that are randomly distributed according to the wave function.
And if each particle infinitely often exists, there also any built up from particles of matter - we are about ourselves - in an infinite number of versions. The wacky-sounding conclusion is therefore that each of us infinitely often exists, where each version appears in a separate "dimension". This is not about space-time dimensions, but co-existing realities. These realities emerge each time to choose a particle "" must. So I try to determine its position, the particle entscheidetsich for a possible position in this reality, and every other position is achieved in a different Realtät.
For the above experiment with the Russian Roulette, this means that there will of course continue to make every attempt possible outputs. Consequently, the physicists will eventually catch the ball and die. However, the possibility exists that he 20 or even 100 times in a row is luck, it is unlikely, but the probability is greater than zero. Now, if all possible decisions are realized, so there is at least a reality in which survived the physicist. And in exactly this he will find himself inevitably, since he dies in all other realities, so for him, only this one remains. He will feel anything like this or know that he died almost every time, he will only say that he is still intact and has always worked out the experiment. This is necessarily so for him, although eye-witnesses of the experiment have him in dozens of other realities seen die. Therefore, this experiment is not recommendable to imitate, you will survive it, although from their perspective, but their fellow human beings they will lose in most realities.
Spins this idea to the end, it is clear that the physicist will continue to survive in his life every misfortune in at least one Realtät, it is inevitably true to its reality. And even the very remote possibility that a means is found to increase life expectancy in arbitrary dimensions is possible and thus also arriving in a reality version. Thus, in 100 or 1,000 years, the physicists find in this very reality.
Conversely, the fact that we have survived in our lives all the dangers of the world, no accident, but an inevitability.
At this point I will end up in this reality, an article, maybe I should have added in other realities yet another ...
This experiment and many more such assumptions of physics is described in the book by Marcus Chown The universe next door, which one gets the following link on Amazon.
