CROSSING BETWEEN PARALLEL REALITIES & TIMELINES: ENTERTAINING A WILD POSSIBILITY

[Spiritwind]

This is fun to think about.

CROSSING BETWEEN PARALLEL REALITIES & TIMELINES: ENTERTAINING A WILD POSSIBILITY

BY GILBERT ROSS • MAY 13, 2015 •
http://soulhiker.com/crossing-between-p ... ssibility/
The idea of parallel universes is certainly not something new. It has been entertained in popular media since the existence of universes existing simultaneously has been theorised in Quantum Physics. Many Sci-fi novels and T.V series scripts have been written based on the idea.

The basic assumption behind the notion is that there are possibly an infinite number of other universes besides our own which vary either in minor details or else entirely indistinguishable such as for example having completely different basic laws and constants of physics. Of course the most interesting possibility is the scenario of those parallel universes which might most closely resemble our own albeit with different personal and collective historic timelines.

The Notion of the Multiverse

The concept has been hypothesised in various disciplines including theoretical Physics, Cosmology, Astronomy and transpersonal Psychology. Within these disciplines the idea of parallel Universes is referred to as the Multiverse theory and some prominent proponents or supporters of the theory are Stephen Hawking, Max Tegmark, Brian Greene and Michio Kaku among others.

There are also different assumptions to the Multiverse theory. One interpretation is that there is an infinite number of Universes that obey the same physical laws but have different configurations. Some would be closely similar to ours but with a different unfolding of historic events as mentioned above. Another interpretation is that some of the Universes would experience a ‘spontaneous symmetry breaking’ and result in different physical constants.

In quantum mechanics, there is also the so-called ‘Many-worlds interpretation’ which holds that certain observations cannot be predicted absolutely because there is a range of possible observations with a different probability and each of these observations corresponds to a different Universe.

Infinite Possibilities & Popping the Questions

The idea invites the imagination to explore numerous possibilities and questions. Imagine a parallel universe in which you have followed a different timeline and were presented with different possibilities and life choices. In that universe you do not have the limiting beliefs, fears and constraints you have in this one. You have reached your fullest potential and became a self-actualised person with enormous material and spiritual wealth. If you could open a door in the multiverse and meet your doppleganger in the other universe what could you learn from him or her? What are the possibilities?

This is a hypothetical scenario but certainly one that should be considered more thoroughly. For starters I do strongly believe that our consciousness is a multidimensional phenomenon, simultaneously co-existing in different dimensional strata beyond our third dimensional reality. Information from higher dimensions sometimes seeps through our ‘3D filters’ in ecstatic experiences, epiphanies, deep meditation or through the use of psychedelics. Now the question is whether it is also possible for our consciousness to cross over to parallel realities and alternative timelines in which our other selves are carrying out all possible pasts, presents and futures.

'Quantum Jumping’ to Parallel Realities?

Every choice we make throughout our life collapses potential outcomes – future possibilities – into one which from our point of view we perceive as our ‘real timeline’. Now some people theorise that those potential outcomes, the other possibilities that didn’t collapse in our timeline, are happening in parallel universes by our parallel selves. In higher dimensions it could be very possible that our consciousness is experiencing all these timelines at once since even at the fifth dimension time is no longer unidirectional but can be traversed backward or forward in the same way we move through space in our third dimensional reality. With this possibility in mind, the part of our consciousness experiencing this dimension could also be accessing information from a parallel timeline at a higher dimension – another you in another timeline who made different choices than your current self. Or more directly it could be literally shifting from one reality to another but the change is so small that it is unnoticeable.
Interestingly there are people like Burt Goldman who took this possibility quite seriously in their life’s work. Goldman in fact created a widely known product called ‘Quantum Jumping’. The idea behind it is to show others what he says he has been doing for many years – mainly allowing his consciousness to meet his other selves in parallel timelines and realities to acquire different insights, perspectives and musings. According to Goldman, you can for example intend to meet that version of yourself in a parallel reality that is more creative and artistic or entrepreneurial. He believes that by following certain visualisation techniques while you enter a certain level of consciousness, you can sync and communicate with any of the infinite versions of You and bringing over those unexplored possibilities and talents into your current timeline.

Sounds mind boggling and crazy but after having initially discarded the idea, I have lately revisited it from a fresh new perspective and it started making a lot more sense. I strongly believe it is very possible – the only question is how to do it consistently and this is what Goldman is claiming to be able to show. I will be looking into this idea more deeply. You can also check it out yourselves here.

The Multiverse is your New Playground

I have found that a deeper awareness and sensitivity towards reality and the nature of Self makes one appreciate how the idea of reality shifts is not only a possibility but a constant in our lives. We have just been unaware of its occurrence. Talking to many people who are more or less on the path of spiritual awakening, I have noticed how one very common thing among them is that the concept of reality is no longer solid and limited but very malleable. The greater our awareness, the more we move away from preconceived notions of our reality especially socially constructed beliefs and norms. Even Science has been questioning the nature of reality since its early days and now with increasing insights into particle physics, Cosmology and Quantum mechanics, the idea of a one fixed reality seems to start becoming untenable and unlikely.

The growth in human knowledge seems to be taking us unequivocally towards this direction – to discover or rather re-discover something that has been eluding us all the time: There are alternative parallel realities to the one we perceive as being solidly ours. Perhaps we might have also been accessing these realities unknowingly in our dreams, deja-vus, moments of clarity and internal shifts and all those experiences the mind is so trained at forgetting or dismissing as being imaginary or unreal. I believe that there is a lot to learn and discover about parallel realities. The Universe is our playground – even better: the Mutliverse is our playground.

[Naga_Fireball]

Hi Spiritwind!
Great find

Have you heard of the Superposition Theorem and Kirchhoff's law?
They are a bit at odds, but for some reason felt led to look this up along with multiverse theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Kirchhoff

Kirchhoff's circuit laws
Further information: Kirchhoff's circuit laws

Kirchhoff's first law is that the algebraic sum of currents in a network of conductors meeting at a point (or node) is zero. The second law is that in a closed circuit, the directed sums of the voltages in a closed system is 0.
Kirchhoff's three laws of spectroscopy
See also: History of spectroscopy

A hot solid object produces light with a continuous spectrum. Kirchhoff coined the term black-body radiation.
A hot tenuous gas produces light with spectral lines at discrete wavelengths (i.e. specific colors) which depend on the energy levels of the atoms in the gas. (See also: emission spectrum)
A hot solid object surrounded by a cool tenuous gas (i.e. cooler than the hot object) produces light with an almost continuous spectrum which has gaps at discrete wavelengths depending on the energy levels of the atoms in the gas. (See also: absorption spectrum)

Kirchhoff did not know about the existence of energy levels in atoms. The existence of discrete spectral lines was later explained by the Bohr model of the atom, which helped lead to quantum mechanics.

He had a very good grasp of matrices:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirchhoff%27s_theorem

In the mathematical field of graph theory Kirchhoff's theorem or Kirchhoff's matrix tree theorem named after Gustav Kirchhoff is a theorem about the number of spanning trees in a graph, showing that this number can be computed in polynomial time as the determinant of a matrix derived from the graph. It is a generalization of Cayley's formula which provides the number of spanning trees in a complete graph.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worl ... rpretation

The many-worlds interpretation is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that asserts the objective reality of the universal wavefunction and denies the actuality of wavefunction collapse. Many-worlds implies that all possible alternate histories and futures are real, each representing an actual "world" (or "universe"). In lay terms, the hypothesis states there is a very large—perhaps infinite[2]—number of universes, and everything that could possibly have happened in our past, but did not, has occurred in the past of some other universe or universes. The theory is also referred to as MWI, the relative state formulation, the Everett interpretation, the theory of the universal wavefunction, many-universes interpretation, or just many-worlds.

also:

\title{{\LARGE\bf A brief overview of quantum computing} \\ or, \\ Can we compute faster in a multiverse?}
\author{Tom Carter}
\date{May 14, 1999}

The Observer in the Quantum Experiment
Bruce Rosenblum
1
and Fred Kuttner
1
A goal of most interpretations of quantum mechanics is to avoid the apparent intrusion of
the observer into the measurement process. Such intrusion is usually seen to arise
because observation somehow selects a single actuality from among the many possibilities
represented by the wavefunction. The issue is typically treated in terms of the
mathematical formulation of the quantum theory. We attempt to address a different
manifestation of the quantum measurement problem in a theory-neutral manner. With a
version of the two-slit experiment, we demonstrate that an enigma arises directly from
the results of experiments. Assuming that no observable physical phenomena exist
beyond those predicted by the theory, we argue that no interpretation of the quantum
theory can avoid a measurement problem involving the observer.

http://www.spiritofthescripture.com/id1 ... -cord.html

If you’ve ever had a near death experience (NDE) or tried astral projection, you may have seen the silver cord. The silver cord is often referred to as the “life thread” because it supplies energy to the physical body. If the silver cord is severed, the physical body can no longer be sustained and dies.

I had a conversation last week with a Christian about the silver cord. She told me she was raised by her Nanny who experienced an NDE in the hospital. Her Nanny stated that she was floating near the ceiling of the hospital room watching her body on the operating table. After floating around she grabbed the silvery-looking cord still attached to her and used to it to pull herself back into her physical body.

http://www.shmoop.com/nation-pratchett/ ... ymbol.html

Both Mau and Daphne talk about a silver thread to the future: "There was a shining silver thread connecting [Mau] to that future" (1.102), and "[Daphne] sees the silver line into the future, and tries to pull herself toward it" (5.41). It doesn't seem like this is forcing them to do anything. It's just a gentle suggestion tugging them along. We like shiny things too, so can you blame them for wanting to follow this shimmery path?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Path_%28Dune%29

he bred into the Atreides a "no-gene", which gave them invisibility to prescience. This was meant to help prevent any prescient predator from finding and wiping out the human species

http://bestmilwaukeepsychic.com/faq/

Psychic reading is like following a thread in a tapestry. An interruption means the flow is disturbed.

http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/magi ... multiverse

As the individual writing about him in the latest Uncharted Realms article quoted his character as saying: "We are all part of a vast tapestry. Break a thread, and that part of the Multiverse unravels. You can never know how small or how large the damage will be until after it is too late. That is why small minds should never be allowed to wield great power."

unfortunately:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science ... lider.html

“Normally, when people think of the multiverse, they think of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, where every possibility is actualised.

"This cannot be tested and so it is philosophy and not science.

“This is not what we mean by parallel universes. What we mean is real universes in extra dimensions.

“As gravity can flow out of our universe into the extra dimensions, such a model can be tested by the detection of mini black holes at the LHC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_model

A cyclic model (or oscillating model) is any of several cosmological models in which the universe follows infinite, or indefinite, self-sustaining cycles. For example, the oscillating universe theory briefly considered by Albert Einstein in 1930 theorized a universe following an eternal series of oscillations, each beginning with a big bang and ending with a big crunch; in the interim, the universe would expand for a period of time before the gravitational attraction of matter causes it to collapse back in and undergo a bounce.

A Delicate Universe
Daniel Baumann, Anatoly Dymarsky, Igor R. Klebanov, Liam McAllister, Paul J. Steinhardt
(Submitted on 25 May 2007)

We investigate whether explicit models of warped D-brane inflation are possible in string compactifications. To this end, we study the potential for D3-brane motion in a warped conifold that includes holomorphically-embedded D7-branes involved in moduli stabilization. The presence of the D7-branes significantly modifies the inflaton potential. We construct an example based on a very simple and symmetric embedding due to Kuperstein, z_1 = constant, in which it is possible to fine-tune the potential so that slow roll inflation can occur. The resulting model is rather delicate: inflation occurs in the vicinity of an inflection point, and the cosmological predictions are extremely sensitive to the precise shape of the potential.

I think that similarly to the Kirchhoff circuit laws, where joined circuits maintain zero,
could describe the multiverse; perhaps one aspect of the multiverse expands while the other collapses.
So energy is constantly flowing from one universe into another;
we see many oceans because the land provides the illusion of separateness.

http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/collapse.html



A spherical shell of matter falls on to the black hole

Picture of shell falling on to black hole.

The movie icon movie (106K GIF), or same movie, double-size on screen (same 106K GIF), shows a thin spherical shell of matter falling on to a black hole - perhaps the same black hole that collapsed above. The mass of the thin shell here is 1/2 the initial mass of the black hole. The radius of the horizon of the black hole increases in proportion to its mass, so expands by 50% during the collapse.

We, the outside observer, remain stationary during the collapse. The horizon of the black hole expands not because we are getting closer, but rather because the infalling shell of matter distorts the image of the black hole beneath it more and more.

The changing colours show how the infalling matter becomes redshifted.

Answer to the quiz question 11: When the mass of a black hole increases, does the horizon appear to engulf stuff that previously fell through? No. Stuff that previously fell through continues to appear frozen and redshifted at the horizon. As the horizon expands, it appears to carry the frozen, redshifted stuff outward with it.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... lly-exist/

In the past decade an extraordinary claim has captivated cosmologists: that the expanding universe we see around us is not the only one; that billions of other universes are out there, too. There is not one universe—there is a multiverse. In Scientific American articles and books such as Brian Greene’s latest, The Hidden Reality, leading scientists have spoken of a super-Copernican revolution. In this view, not only is our planet one among many, but even our entire universe is insignificant on the cosmic scale of things. It is just one of countless universes, each doing its own thing.

In Search of the Multiverse: Parallel Worlds, Hidden Dimensions, and the ...
By John Gribbin