how unimportant we really are

[bwanaaa]

We muddled along until we realized that the earth was not the center of the solar system, just another planet. Then come to find out we are in the hick part of the galaxy. I get the feeling that even our universe is not the only one. and maybe not even real.

Imagine the waves that emanate from where a pebble is dropped into a pond. Each circular wave is its own unverse in a sense. You can travel from anywhere on that wave to any other part of wave by traveling along the crest. Could our universe as we perceive it simply be such a wave through a sea of strings. A complicated wave, to be sure, that as it traverses the strings of space and organizes them into the quarks, particles, and atoms we know and a second later that wave has moved on into a new region of strings. We perceive nothing because we are part of wave, our sensors are larger than the strings that constitute us. Concentrically expanding waves are the coexisting universes that are just echoes of the real event.

Hard to imagine that a wave of strings can evolve intelligence. If you call what we do intelligent.

 

[honkee]

ill take triple of what your smoking

 

[KingGheedora]

chill out

 

[manowar821]

bwanaaa, now after all that thinking, realize that we're only scratching the very surface of the iceberg, much less the ocean that this "iceberg" is floating in...

*brain assplode*

I love astrophysics.

 

[Jeff7]

The idea of the "multiverse" has been proposed before. My view of it would be that the "cosmos" beyond our little universe would sparkle like our night sky does with stars, except it would be the sparkle of a trillion trillion little universes forming and dying all around, little bubbles of space, time, and energy, fizzing all over the place. It wouldn't sparkle with light, of course, but some analog of it which would exist outside of our reality. Anything outside this Universe would not likely conform with any of our laws of physics, nor would it even be describable by any of our terminology, as it would be neither space nor time.

 

[firewolfsm]

Ignoring the rest of what you said, the idea of the wave isn't bad. I'm sure there's some flaw I can't recognize but it could explain the big bang being an explosion of space, because the wave expands. but at the same time, that means it should get "weaker" over time, which we don't observe.