Thursday 26 August 2010

Multiverse or infinite universe paradox

The scientific community are increasingly adopting as true the theory of an infinite number of universes existing at the same time. The one we see and feel we inhabit is just one in an infinite number.

Infinity itself is a mind snapping concept to dwell on for too long. Imagine the earth, sitting in the universe, as we know it. Imagine the great deserts of Africa. Have a think about the sand dunes and then the individual grains, then the irregular angles found on single face of the grain of sand. Somewhere exists a universe that is in every way exactly like ours other than one single angular bump on the side of this grain of sand.

There will be another universe, again exactly like ours in everyway and even that grain will be the same, but it will be in the desert the other way up. Obviously it stands to reason that there will be one with the grain the other way up and a different angular bump. This applies to every single variation in the universe we know.

Then there are all the universes that are not just a minute variation of the one we know, but have elements that are not found here at all. Animals that photosynthesis for example, or a universe with two earths, or three, or 5 million. Whatever you can think of will exist because this is the nature of infinity.

My paradox is this. In one or many of these infinite universes there must be worlds which are the same or similar to the one we know but where the difference is that the best theoretical scientists have proved beyond all reasonable argument that there is only one universe and that one is the one that is therefore real.