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Parallel Worlds exist and will soon be testable, expert says

29 points by kamilszybalski 13y ago

platz 13y ago
How will we test for these worlds? Per the article, let's talk about psychology and sociology instead
abainbridge 13y ago
This is a terrible article. It contains no information about how what is going to be testable. It also contains sentences that make no sense, eg, "Researchers at the WMAP space telescope recently discovered a force 10,000 times larger than the Milky Way". The Milky Way is not a force.
- dcre 13y ago
  It also uses "begs the question" to mean "suggests the following question" -- though, sadly, that's not unusual at all.
julianpye 13y ago
Please note that IEET has nothing to do with IEEE or similar institutions who will only publish peer reviewed material. This article sounds like it takes parts from proper science and others from Quantum Mysticiscm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mysticism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mysticism
wissler 13y ago
Some "science" is just warmed over religion.
- naturalethic 13y ago
  The method is useful. Any establishment derived from a discovery is a religion. Observations of the past can never offer certainty over the future. Nothing can. Life is a gamble.
asdfologist 13y ago
What in the world is this pseudoscience garbage doing on HN?
droithomme 13y ago
This is a poor, and fairly useless article. The source it links to is better though. Summary. Brian Greene is a respected and credible theoretical physicist who teaches at Columbia and has written several books. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Greene http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Greene Greene wrote a book published in 2011 about multiple universes called "The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos". http://www.amazon.com/The-Hidden-Reality-Parallel-Universes/dp/0307278123 http://www.amazon.com/The-Hidden-Reality-Parallel-Universes/... When he was doing his book tour for that one, the 9News article was written and features an excerpt from the first chapter of the book. http://www.9news.com/news/article/182664/509/Is-there-another-you-reading-this-in-a-parallel-universe http://www.9news.com/news/article/182664/509/Is-there-anothe... Somebody at this IEET site, whatever it is, found the 2 year old article and today published a poor summary of it filled with mumbo jumbo and hand waving. That is what is linked to by OP. To find more information about how the multiverse theory is testable, presumably the details are in his book, which has fairly good reviews on amazon and is the #4 best seller in the category of Quantum Physics. A summary of the book's content is present on a wikipedia page dedicated to it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hidden_Reality:_Parallel_Universes_and_the_Deep_Laws_of_the_Cosmos http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hidden_Reality:_Parallel_Un...

platz 13y ago

How will we test for these worlds? Per the article, let's talk about psychology and sociology instead

This is a terrible article. It contains no information about how what is going to be testable. It also contains sentences that make no sense, eg, "Researchers at the WMAP space telescope recently discovered a force 10,000 times larger than the Milky Way". The Milky Way is not a force.

dcre 13y ago
It also uses "begs the question" to mean "suggests the following question" -- though, sadly, that's not unusual at all.

julianpye 13y ago

Please note that IEET has nothing to do with IEEE or similar institutions who will only publish peer reviewed material. This article sounds like it takes parts from proper science and others from Quantum Mysticiscm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mysticism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mysticism

wissler 13y ago

Some "science" is just warmed over religion.

naturalethic 13y ago
The method is useful. Any establishment derived from a discovery is a religion. Observations of the past can never offer certainty over the future. Nothing can. Life is a gamble.

asdfologist 13y ago

What in the world is this pseudoscience garbage doing on HN?

droithomme 13y ago

This is a poor, and fairly useless article. The source it links to is better though. Summary. Brian Greene is a respected and credible theoretical physicist who teaches at Columbia and has written several books. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Greene http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Greene Greene wrote a book published in 2011 about multiple universes called "The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos". http://www.amazon.com/The-Hidden-Reality-Parallel-Universes/dp/0307278123 http://www.amazon.com/The-Hidden-Reality-Parallel-Universes/... When he was doing his book tour for that one, the 9News article was written and features an excerpt from the first chapter of the book. http://www.9news.com/news/article/182664/509/Is-there-another-you-reading-this-in-a-parallel-universe http://www.9news.com/news/article/182664/509/Is-there-anothe... Somebody at this IEET site, whatever it is, found the 2 year old article and today published a poor summary of it filled with mumbo jumbo and hand waving. That is what is linked to by OP. To find more information about how the multiverse theory is testable, presumably the details are in his book, which has fairly good reviews on amazon and is the #4 best seller in the category of Quantum Physics. A summary of the book's content is present on a wikipedia page dedicated to it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hidden_Reality:_Parallel_Universes_and_the_Deep_Laws_of_the_Cosmos http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hidden_Reality:_Parallel_Un...