# Kinda different Parralel Universe question **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 24, 2007, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinda-different-parralel-universe-question/389183 "2007-01-24T01:29:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinda-different-parralel-universe-question/389183/21 "2007-01-25T16:27:05Z")
So in some other universe, Bill Clinton just decides to drop on in and bugger parallel-me for the hell of it? Everything else is identical? ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinda-different-parralel-universe-question/389183/22 "2007-01-25T23:29:06Z")
[QUOTE=Balthisar] So in some other universe, Bill Clinton just decides to drop on in and bugger parallel-me for the hell of it? Everything else is identical? [/QUOTE] In an infinite number of other universes, yes. In an infinite number of \*other \*universes, it’s Dick Cheney. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinda-different-parralel-universe-question/389183/23 "2007-01-25T23:42:33Z")
And in an infinite number of universes, you bend over expectantly and wait, but he changes his mind and goes out for pizza instead. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinda-different-parralel-universe-question/389183/24 "2007-01-26T00:10:02Z")
Significant if irrelevant point: None of the numbers here are truly infinite. The number of parallel universes (assuming we accept that hypothesis) that look almost like this one except that I misspelled one more or fewer words in this post is, even though they started diverging less than a minute ago, mind-bogglingly astronomically beyond-all-possible-measure-and/or-comprehension huge. But it’s not infinite. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinda-different-parralel-universe-question/389183/25 "2007-01-26T00:17:01Z")
[QUOTE=MaxTheVool] Significant if irrelevant point: None of the numbers here are truly infinite. The number of parallel universes (assuming we accept that hypothesis) that look almost like this one except that I misspelled one more or fewer words in this post is, even though they started diverging less than a minute ago, mind-bogglingly astronomically beyond-all-possible-measure-and/or-comprehension huge. But it’s not infinite. [/QUOTE] It is if you permit infinite duplicates of each universe (except there’s no reason to do that if they’re actually all just different views/arrangements of the same everything-at-once universe) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinda-different-parralel-universe-question/389183/26 "2007-01-26T05:37:37Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] And in an infinite number of universes, you bend over expectantly and wait, but he changes his mind and goes out for pizza instead. [/QUOTE] I want to live in a universe just like that, except that instead of either Dick Cheney or Bill Clinton, it’s Kate Winslet, and _she’s_ the one bending over expectantly. Who do I see to line that up? ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinda-different-parralel-universe-question/389183/27 "2007-01-26T07:27:56Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] I want to live in a universe just like that, except that instead of either Dick Cheney or Bill Clinton, it’s Kate Winslet, and _she’s_ the one bending over expectantly. Who do I see to line that up? [/QUOTE] Her agent? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2007, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinda-different-parralel-universe-question/389183/28 "2007-01-27T19:30:27Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] And in an infinite number of universes, you bend over expectantly and wait, but he changes his mind and goes out for pizza instead. [/QUOTE] [infinite number of Homer Simpsons]Mmmmmm..Alternate universe pizzas![/infinite number of Homer Simpsons] ---
**Author:** ![BACI](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ce73a5/32.png) [@BACI](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BACI)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2007, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinda-different-parralel-universe-question/389183/29 "2007-01-27T22:33:37Z")
Does this help? > **[Imagining the Tenth Dimension](http://www.tenthdimension.com/)** > > Description of Kultura Series Goes Here Play the flash animation - it cleared up a couple of things (in a purely speculative way) for me. M [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinda-different-parralel-universe-question/389183.md?page=1)