Crash Course to the Multiverse – The Weird Side of the Internet – by Liam Sweeny.
One of the most frustrating things about life is that it’s temporary. You only get one go. But there are a million decisions we make out of a hundred billion decisions we could have made. Ever had “the one” in your sights, but one night and a half-bottle of Scotch later and you wake up with “Last Call” Laura and a hole where your crush made her escape. Wish you didn’t do that? Well, according to the theory of the multiverse, you didn’t.
Multiverse, or multiple universes, live on the edge between sci fi ans sci class. There are a few ways we could be living in a multiverse, but I’m going to illustrate one way, perhaps the easiest one.
So the easiest way to look at multiverse is to say there’s an existence where you exist in more than one instance, capable of doing other things. This isn’t so much an entirely different universe; it’s just an infinitely vast one.
Let’s say that the Big Bang wasn’t the beginning of something from nothing. In this case, the universe is basically endless, just the way we see it, but an endless amount of that. Now picture what we can see from earth as a massive pattern of matter, energy, space, time and all that. It’s a pattern. In infinite space, every imaginable pattern is going to play out eventually, including the one almost exactly like ours, except you stayed out of the bar that night, and you’re now on your third date with your true love.
So if you go out far enough, every possible version of our visible universe will play out somewhere. So when you do something stupid, know that there is a version of up that aced the situation.
I know you want to do it. Go ahead, flip a coin. Do something based off the flip, and just imagine how many billion of you flipped a coin, and what they, and you, were deciding.
And finally, if you know them, you’ve slept with them. And they’ve shot you.