Buddy number 3 is correct.

Reading multiverse theory, I take it that each choice, however significant or insignificant, instantly opens a new universe with its own story. To visualize this process, you can imagine a froth of bubbles becoming more foamy every split second and every tiny bubble being created is a new universe, parallel to each other.

Now, with that concept in mind, here is an illustration...

You and a friend are sitting at a table with a deck of cards. Your friend picks up the deck and has a thought. The thought is, "I'll ask my friend to pick a card, any card" and at the exact instant that thought is created, the possibility of 52 new universes, parallel worlds, is formed like a ghostly cloud waiting to be resolved into a physical point by action. For if that expected action is taken, your friend will pick a different card simultaneously in a new and unique universe, one for each card in the deck. 52 new worlds now exist with their own stories being played out as each bubble (universe) expands inside the multi-verse.

Unless, of course, your friend says no and elects not to play the pick a card game. Then, in that instance, the quantum cloud of possibility collapses and does not form any new set of concrete realities.

Therefore, each possible choice presented in any situation is organized but cannot become real unless certain action is taken. Tibetan Buddhists call this cosmic process simply 'cause and effect'.

Informationally organized, new parallel worlds may die before being born and the ones that do become realities fostering more choices and more bubble expanding potential.

Each new universe is on a brane (as in membrane). The largest substance which contains the multiple bubbles or branes is called the 'bulk'.




[edit on 6-1-2009 by switching yard]

Hmm... Free will... what a load of crap... no one is really free to do anything really... thanks to laws, statutes, and the gray line between right and wrong. personally i live in this gray area. thats how i govern my "life" if i dont feel bad about it ill do it. once you free yourself from the "moral standard" can you have free will. as for life being predetermined.. if thats the case i want to find the prick that chose my life for me and shoot him/her in the face...


Life.. is choices.. its should i have the 10 beers while im hanging out with my ex who keeps flirting with me, or should i say i dont think so...(guess 2 on this forum know how that turned out >_

Great thread. Lots of great ideas presented.

I find that many people struggle to give their life purpose, to say they are meant to be somewhere or do something. Why? You are here. You are conscious in this reality and eventually your body will die presumably taking your consciousness with it. Its as if you are given the greatest gift in the universe and still want more. The only destiny i can think of exists beyond that death and it awaits all of us.

I believe my consciousness is merely a survival tool for the vessel of energy it resides in. And that vessel is just one of many extensions of one life force that exists in this location in the universe. After I pass on, the energy used to run me will be allocated to enliven something else. It is only what we contribute to society and history that makes our lives any more important than they are. As far as the universe is concerned I am just another blip on the radar. I understand many people cannot live with this idea but for me it makes my life all the more precious.

I think we have free will to do whatever our minds can conjure up. All this talk about things being preordained are based upon the concept that there is a future set forth. But I must again offer that time is just a measurement of a"progression" and not necessarily a "real" thing. A point cannot exist on a line if there is no line. Once again, this requires stepping outside of the limits of human perception.

Any aliens on the board wanna chime in?

So whats your conclusion Rekar? Are you any closer to answering the question?

I must say Darthorius' post got me thinking. There is so much we don't know. Its like formulating a theory with less than 1% of the evidence.

This subject is fascinating to me. I would say the concept of many possible destinies for an individual is really an illusion because only one destiny can actually occur for each of us. It's just a question of which destiny gets fulfilled.