After Death

[the_PC_apeman]

And I see you’re posting in both of them.

[Tom_Ripley]

It was my understanding that in string theory there were infinite universes, not six, ill have to go back over my readings.

[Tom_Ripley]

Here we go, thanks to wiki

many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics or MWI, also known as the relative state formulation, theory of the universal wavefunction, many-universes interpretation or just many worlds is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that claims to resolve all the “paradoxes” of quantum theory by allowing every possible outcome to every event to define or exist in its own “history” or “world”, via the mechanism of quantum decoherence, instead of wavefunction collapse. Many worlds reconciles how we can perceive non-deterministic events (such as the random decay of a radioactive atom) with the deterministic equations of quantum physics; history, which prior to many worlds had been viewed as a single “world-line”, is rather a many-branched tree where every possible branch of history is realised.

The relative state formulation is due to Hugh Everett.[1] in 1957, popularised and renamed many worlds by Bryce Seligman DeWitt in the 1960s and '70s.[2][3][4][5] The decoherent approach to interpreting quantum theory has been further explored and developed[6][7][8] becoming quite popular, taken as a class overall. MWI is one of many multiverse hypotheses in physics and philosophy. It is currently considered a mainstream interpretation along with the other decoherent interpretations and the Copenhagen interpretation.

[the_PC_apeman]

@Tom Ripley

Here we go, thanks to wiki
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Also thanks to Wikipedia:

Unlike general relativity, string theory allows one to compute the number of spacetime dimensions from first principles. Technically, this happens because, for a different number of dimensions, the theory has a gauge anomaly. This can be understood by noting that in a consistent theory which includes a photon (technically, a particle carrying a force related to an unbroken gauge symmetry), it must be massless. The mass of the photon which is predicted by string theory depends on the energy of the string mode which represents the photon. This energy includes a contribution from Casimir effect, namely from quantum fluctuations in the string. The size of this contribution depends on the number of dimensions since for a larger number of dimensions, there are more possible fluctuations in the string position. Therefore, the photon will be massless — and the theory consistent — only for a particular number of dimensions.[4]

When the calculation is done, the universe’s dimensionality is not four as one may expect (three axes of space and one of time). Bosonic string theories are 26-dimensional, while superstring and M-theories turn out to involve 10 or 11 dimensions. In bosonic string theories, the 26 dimensions come from the Polyakov equation.[5] However, these results appear to contradict the observed four dimensional space-time.

[Tom_Ripley]

Oh. The universe doesent seem as interesting as it once was anymore.

[Revenant_Threshold]

many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics or MWI, also known as the relative state formulation, theory of the universal wavefunction, many-universes interpretation or just many worlds is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that claims to resolve all the “paradoxes” of quantum theory by allowing every possible outcome to every event to define or exist in its own “history” or “world”, via the mechanism of quantum decoherence, instead of wavefunction collapse.

But that isn’t an infinite amount, because there haven’t been an infinite number of outcomes creating “histories” (and on preview, that’s apparently not to do with string theory anyway).

The whole notion of an omnipotent god being in one universe out of an infinite amount doesn’t work anyway. If an omnipotent god only exists and effects one universe, then it isn’t omnipotent by definition. And if the omnipotent god is capable of affecting all universes then there is no universe in which no omnipotent god acts; an impossibility if all possible universes exist. Logically it doesn’t work.