In my free time, I have been reading a little bit about the universe and the different theories of its origin. An interesting concept is that of multiple universes or multiverse. This is a nice concept – food for thought for scientists, philosophers, and theologians.
I find this concept interesting in the context of ‘what ifs’ in life. Consider this – what if I had decided to pursue a career in medical sciences instead of pursuing a career in engineering? I would have been a doctor and working at some hospital! But that’s not the case now – I am in an engineering career now, in this universe! But may be in another universe I am a doctor now!
So every time I am confronted with a choice to make I am in some sense splitting my existential universe into a set of universes based on the number of options I have for that particular decision. I then choose one of the universes and I lose access to all the other universes! This gives a whole new meaning to the phrase – I am living many lives! Now this gets a little out of hand when you start factoring in other people’s actions and decisions – so now we have a super crazy set of universes all existing in parallel! But some how from this set only one universe exists or at least appears that way! It is fun for me to imagine in some universe – I never came to America or I did my masters from USC or I am a doctor or I am an astronaut or I am still with my ex-girlfriend or I never left my old job or I …
I guess this is not multiverse – this is day dreaming, king of wishful thinking 
Same time, same place, In another universe!
This was depicted in the movie ‘The One’, starring Jet Lee. Its a great movie. I loved the concept of multiverse too.
Posted by weltanschauungs | October 28, 2005, 11:11 pmWhat happens when A wants something and B doesn’t want A to have that, how many universes wud that be? So it is not just our options but also those around us. Whew what an explosion.
By any chance have you read Timeline by Michael Crichton?
Posted by cocavita | October 29, 2005, 1:37 amIt’s simple quantum mechanics. Every system is in an infinite number of states until you actually try to measure its state.
The universe as you see it is simply the way it was at the instant you measured it.
Schödinger’s cat knows.
Posted by bluesmoon | October 29, 2005, 12:20 pmthanks for the suggestion. i checked the movie synopsis on imdb. sounds interesting, i think i will rent the movie on one of these days.
Posted by iamneo | October 29, 2005, 1:30 pmhave you read the book?
Posted by iamneo | October 29, 2005, 1:33 pmYes! Schödinger’s cat knows .
Posted by iamneo | October 29, 2005, 2:04 pmI see teaching a web dev course taught you nothing about the blink tag. Don’t use it. Use a style instead.
Posted by bluesmoon | October 29, 2005, 2:11 pmumm, that should be Schrödinger
Posted by bluesmoon | October 29, 2005, 2:11 pmi know! the tag does not work on my browser. but does not bother me.
Posted by iamneo | October 29, 2005, 2:20 pmi just copied the word from your comment!
Posted by iamneo | October 29, 2005, 2:20 pmI wasn’t replying to you.
Posted by bluesmoon | October 29, 2005, 2:21 pmcheck this out. its cool – http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/science/6dff/
Posted by iamneo | October 29, 2005, 2:22 pmatleast in one universe, i am currently living on some pacific island, in my houseboat, and listening to a pancham,gulzar,asha,kishore combo…ever imagined paradise??? probably cant be better than this..
http://victimofdesire.blogspot.com
Posted by anonymous | October 30, 2005, 1:07 amHey,
there was a STNG episode in which worf hits a quamtum fissure and enters a parallel universe where he is married to Tasha Yar with a kid and i think that captain Pecard was dead and riker was the captain of the ship and they were on a war with the klingons…
Anyways, enough rambling…may be you should see that episode of star trek too…
Abhilasha
Posted by anonymous | October 31, 2005, 11:07 am