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<blockquote data-quote="Thelema" data-source="post: 256516" data-attributes="member: 15114"><p>The concept of parallel timelines comes from, in large part, the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics. To oversimplify it a bit, the question is - why are quantum-level events nondeterministic while our everyday world is deterministic? Quantum mechanics are influenced by the observer, but that's not true in our day to day life. So there is a difficulty in harmonizing quantum mechanics with our usual interpretations of physics. This is called "quantum decoherence", when phenomena is no longer explained by quantum mechanics but rather classical mechanics.</p><p></p><p>One theory is that there must be parallel timelines in which all of these other possible events happen. In other words, the universe actually is non-deterministic like we see on the quantum level, but we only see one set of events from our perspective. There are, presumably, other versions of ourselves experiencing different events. Everything that is possible under the laws of physics has happened somewhere under this interpretation, most likely in an infinite number of alternate universes.</p><p></p><p>There are many challenges to this belief, particularly because there's no "bleed through" so it can't really be proven to be true or false. One complaint is that the Many Worlds Interpretation doesn't account for gravity. Gravity isn't really relevant to quantum-level events. Once gravity becomes relevant, the world becomes deterministic.</p><p></p><p>But even if the MWI is correct, I'm not sure how you could theoretically jump from timeline to timeline. Human consciousness doesn't seem to be subject to quantum mechanics so it doesn't create branching possibilities.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thelema, post: 256516, member: 15114"] The concept of parallel timelines comes from, in large part, the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics. To oversimplify it a bit, the question is - why are quantum-level events nondeterministic while our everyday world is deterministic? Quantum mechanics are influenced by the observer, but that's not true in our day to day life. So there is a difficulty in harmonizing quantum mechanics with our usual interpretations of physics. This is called "quantum decoherence", when phenomena is no longer explained by quantum mechanics but rather classical mechanics. One theory is that there must be parallel timelines in which all of these other possible events happen. In other words, the universe actually is non-deterministic like we see on the quantum level, but we only see one set of events from our perspective. There are, presumably, other versions of ourselves experiencing different events. Everything that is possible under the laws of physics has happened somewhere under this interpretation, most likely in an infinite number of alternate universes. There are many challenges to this belief, particularly because there's no "bleed through" so it can't really be proven to be true or false. One complaint is that the Many Worlds Interpretation doesn't account for gravity. Gravity isn't really relevant to quantum-level events. Once gravity becomes relevant, the world becomes deterministic. But even if the MWI is correct, I'm not sure how you could theoretically jump from timeline to timeline. Human consciousness doesn't seem to be subject to quantum mechanics so it doesn't create branching possibilities. [/QUOTE]
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