Can't say as I've read up on a lot of this, but my amateur preference has always been for an idea I came up with, which I call The Collapsing Wave theory.
Yes, the world does fork a zillion times a second, but almost all of those forks are from meaningless changes (quick... think of a number; there we just created a zillion forks). In my theory, worlds that are effectively the same merge back into each other (so all the worlds in which you thought of different numbers have merged back into this world since there wasn't any change significant enough to keep them apart).
Chaos theory doesn't like my philosophy, but that's too bad for chaos theory. My opinion is that the large-scale potential future changes which chaos theory predicts don't carry enough current force during the moment of Qquantum/Planck time that the worlds have split to keep the weight of the worlds from coming back together. The total force of those future changes only exists if the futures of the different universes are created at the moment of the split, but that gets into other philosohpical problems.
The question that my theory then raises is what change could possibly be big enough to keep multiple universes which have split for an instant of time apart. And to that, I don't know, maybe a Big Bang.
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Date: 2006-07-27 02:41 pm (UTC)Yes, the world does fork a zillion times a second, but almost all of those forks are from meaningless changes (quick... think of a number; there we just created a zillion forks). In my theory, worlds that are effectively the same merge back into each other (so all the worlds in which you thought of different numbers have merged back into this world since there wasn't any change significant enough to keep them apart).
Chaos theory doesn't like my philosophy, but that's too bad for chaos theory. My opinion is that the large-scale potential future changes which chaos theory predicts don't carry enough current force during the moment of Qquantum/Planck time that the worlds have split to keep the weight of the worlds from coming back together. The total force of those future changes only exists if the futures of the different universes are created at the moment of the split, but that gets into other philosohpical problems.
The question that my theory then raises is what change could possibly be big enough to keep multiple universes which have split for an instant of time apart. And to that, I don't know, maybe a Big Bang.