There is strange anecdote of a Man arriving with a valid Passport,
The problem was that there is no country as such!
To cross check his story,he was asked to point out the country in a world map.
He pointed out a place, Principality of Andorra between France and Spain.
But he said that its name was not Andorra and its name was Taured.
He also stated that he has been living there and that Taured existed 1000 years before.
He added that he had been visiting japan from this country for the past Five years.
He had with him European Countries’ currencies and a Driver’s License issued by the mysterious country Taured.
The authorities checked him into a Hotel room and they were verifying the facts.
The icing on the cake is that as two Immigration officials stood out side his doors, he vanished!
“On a seemingly normal day in 1954, a seemingly normal man allegedly flew into Tokyo, but upon landing at the Tokyo International Airport, his seemingly normal trip had taken a very drastic turn for the weird. When he handed over his passport to be stamped, the man was immediately interrogated as to the whereabouts of his origins. It wasn’t a case of racial profiling: While his passport looked authentic, it listed a country no one had ever heard of called Taured.’
Time travel illustration with parallel universe hypothesis (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
There is a fine distinction between the Parallel and Multi Verses.
Here it is,
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At first blush it seems crazy — or at least that was my own initial reaction. When cosmologists talk about “the multiverse,” it’s a slightly poetic term. We really just mean different regions of spacetime, far away so that we can’t observe them, but nevertheless still part of what one might reasonably want to call “the universe.” In inflationary cosmology, however, these different regions can be relatively self-contained — “pocket universes,” as Alan Guth calls them. When you combine this with string theory, the emergent local laws of physics in the different pocket universes can be very different; they can have different particles, different forces, even different numbers of dimensions. So there is a good reason to think about them as separate universes, even if they’re all part of the same underlying spacetime.
The situation in quantum mechanics is superficially entirely different. Think of Schrödinger’s Cat. Quantum mechanics describes reality in terms of wave functions, which assign numbers (amplitudes) to all the various possibilities of what we can see when we make an observation. The cat is neither alive nor dead; it is in a superposition of alive + dead. At least, until we observe it. In the simplistic Copenhagen interpretation, at the moment of observation the wave function “collapses” onto one actual possibility. We see either an alive cat or a dead cat; the other possibility has simply ceased to exist. In the Many Worlds or Everett interpretation, both possibilities continue to exist, but “we” (the macroscopic observers) are split into two, one that observes a live cat and one that observes a dead one. There are now two of us, both equally real, never to come back into contact.
These two ideas sound utterly different. In the cosmological multiverse, the other universes are simply far away; in quantum mechanics, they’re right here, but in different possibility spaces (i.e. different parts of Hilbert space,”
That is to say that there are many Universes operating simultaneously with our Space Time but operating under its own Laws, including Physical Laws.
In the Parallel Universe there are number of possibilities with regard to what we perceive, as what we see is what we would like to see, that is the Reality or the real thing is altered by our Perception or even the very attempt changes the nature of the thing we would like to perceive.
Please read my post(In Astrophysics) on this where I have provided information and Video how what we see is affected by our attempt to perceive it.
This is the essential difference according to latest thoughts on the subject.
What does Hinduism say on this?
1.That there is only one Reality, Brahman, and there are many Parallel Universes for our Perception.
Ekam Sath , Vipra Bahutha Vadanthi’
Reality is One, but It is Perceived as Many by the Discerning.
Discerning is he near equivalent word for the Sanskrit term for Vipra, though it is translated as the Learned by many.
The Context in which the sentence is formed lends support to my view.
The Many are Illusory in Nature depending on the level of Ignorance one has of the Reality.
The same world, event appears different to different people, depending on one’s Disposition, Swabhava.
This applies our level as well as to others.
As much as the Reality appears different to different people in our level, there are also other levels, Multi verse where the same Reality is perceived as many by many depending on their dispositions, Swabhava.
We, at our plane of Existence ,are aware of only our Swabhava, Dispoitions not the others’ at other levels of existence.
So according to Hinduism,there are Multi verses that operate under different levels on par or at the same time(for our reference I am mentioning this).
Hence Multi verses co-exist with ours.
2.In this sense Parallel verse and the Multi verses exist simultaneously.
In the former, at our level of existence we have many possible worlds depending on our intent to perceive.
Also the Multi verse do have their Parallel verses depending on the ability of those who inhabit them to perceive.
So there are many Multiverses in each of the possible , including ours.
3.This raises some interesting possibilities.
a) If one were to go back in Time and sees himself in the past, what does it belong to?
Parallel or Multiverse?
b) Again, according to Hinduism Rebirth is certain.
Let us look some example.
I am 64 now.
I should have died at least sixty four years ago.
My children int he past birth must have cremated, buried my body and religious ceremonies should have been performed( It might nor have been performed as well).
Hinduism states that the effect of these ceremonies , like Sraddha reach the deceased.
Hinduism is the first religion o have formed a Cyclic Theroy of Time, that is Time runs in cycles,
The Four Yugas, Aeons, Krutha, Tretha,Dwapara and Kali repeat themselves without end.
One approach to establishing the Multi verses is from the angle of the Atomic structure.
Vishnu with Multi Verse.
Please refer my posts under Multiverses.
The other is to find it at the Macro level.
The description of the Universe in the Hindu Puranas are quite detailed and they explain that there are many worlds with beings, that they intermingled, fought with each other.
Please refer my post Aliens in Ramayana, Mahabharata,Hinduism.
The description of the Constellations and their shifting movements as explained in the Hindu system is validated by modern Astronomy.
Our Pole Star shifts and so all the other stars with respect to our Sun.
The Universe contains billions of Stars and they their Planetary Systems.
Just as our Stars shift position in relation to our Sun, the billion Stars of the Universe shift.
The term Adhitya refers to Sun in Hinduism.
There are twelve Adhityas and Vishnu one among them.
He , as I explained in my post ‘Vishnu once in 6480 years, Astronomy Precession Equinox,’ emerges once in 6480 years with the changing Great Year, Yuga.
The Devi Mahatmiya describes that the Devi takes the Trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Rudra around the Universe and shows them numerous Brahmas, Visnus and Shivas at work, before reaching Chintamani Gruha of the Devi.
Please read my post on Chintamani Gruha.
Now these countless Suns, having their own planets follow their own Laws, some physical laws are the same as ours,
People existing there travel among them, including the Earth.
As the Physical laws there are different so is the definition of Life.
The composition of Life there may be different from ours, they mayor need not have the basis Hydrogen,helium or Carbon as the building block of Life.
May be they might not need Amino Acids.
I am providing an excerpt.
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The idea of a physical multiverse came later to physics than it did to religion and philosophy. The Hindu religion has ancient concepts that are similar. The term itself was, apparently, first applied by a psychologist, rather than a physicist.
Concepts of a multiverse are evident in the cyclical infinite worlds of ancient Hindu cosmology. In this viewpoint, our world is one of an infinite number of distinct worlds, each governed by its own gods on their own cycles of creation and destruction.
The word multiverse was originated by American psychologist William James in 1895 (the word “moral” is excluded from some citations of this passage):
“Visible nature is all plasticity and indifference, a [moral] multiverse, as one might call it, and not a [moral] universe.”
The phrase rose in prominence throughout the 20th century, when it was used regularly in science fiction and fantasy, notably in the work of author Michael Moorcock (though some sources attribute the word to the earlier work of author and philosopher John Cowper Powys in the 1950s). It is now a common phrase within these genres.
According to MIT cosmologist Max Tegmark, there are four levels of parallel universes:
Level 1: An infinite universe that, by the laws of probability, must contain another copy of Earth somewhere
Level 2: Other distant regions of space with different physical parameters, but the same basic laws
Level 3: Other universes where each possibility that can exist does exist, as described by the many worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics
Level 4: Entirely distinct universes that may not even be connected to ours in any meaningful way and very likely have entirely different fundamental physical laws
Tegmark’s approach is one of the few attempts to comprehensively categorize the concepts of parallel universes in a scientific (or, as some see it, pseudoscientific) context. The full text of Tegmark’s 2003 paper on this topic is available at his MIT website, for those who don’t believe that these concepts are scientific. (They may not be scientific, but at least they’re unscientific musings by a scientist.)
One is that these are The Stages of mental development in a Spiritual Journey.
Another is that these are Planes of Existence at other levels, complying with Laws that are unique to them, Including the Laws of Physics.
Artist concept of the cyclic universe.
They exist as our earth exists in Time and Space, where the Space Time concepts are different from ours.
It may be noted that the day of the Devas is equivalent to 100 Earth Years.
level I Multiverse, in the Universe, there are many observable areas(The observable areas are marked as red circled with a red cross on ther center) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
There is a Mention of Mandhaata visiting Brahma loka for a day and on returning to Earth he finds that 100 Years have lapsed.
I feel that there are two different sets of Lokas that are being spoken in Hinduism.
There are references to Chandra and Surya Lokas, which are not listed in the 14 Lokas List.
These are called Chandra Mandala and Surya Mandala as well.
Mandala may probably mean the sub planetary systems around the Moon and Sun respectively
At the same time the Yoga Schools call various stages of mental development as the level of Chandra, which indicates Mind while Surya indicates
Intellect.
Taking these to mean and comparing them with the Quantum Theory which states that there are other planes where things exist and they do not obey
the Laws of our Earth’s Physical laws.
Latest findings indicate that the Multi verses are Infinite and they depend on the Perceiver and his ability to perceive them.
Hinduism says exactly the same with Time being Cyclic.
Read my Post on Cyclic Theory of Time.
““So, the total number of possibilities accessible to any given observer is limited not only by the entropy of perturbations of metric produced by inflation and by the size of the cosmological horizon, but also by the number of degrees of freedom of an observer,” the physicists write.
Professor Arthur Holmes (1895-1965) geologist, professor at the University of Durham. He writes regarding the age of the earth in his great book, The Age of Earth (1913) as follows:
“Long before it became a scientific aspiration to estimate the age of the earth, many elaborate systems of the world chronology had been devised by the sages of antiquity. The most remarkable of these occult time-scales is that of the ancient Hindus, whose astonishing concept of the Earth’s duration has been traced back to Manusmriti, a sacred book.”
Alan Watts, a professor, graduate school dean and research fellow of Harvard University, drew heavily on the insights of Vedanta. Watts became well known in the 1960s as a pioneer in bringing Eastern philosophy to the West. He wrote:
“To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, ( A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is but one of innumerable ways of applying it.”
When the Hindu calculation of the present age of the earth and the expanding universe could make Professor Holmes so astonished, the precision with which the Hindu calculation regarding the age of the entire Universe was made would make any man spellbound.
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The multiverse (or meta-universe) is the hypothetical set of infinite or finite possible universes (including the historical universe we consistently experience) that together comprise everything that exists and can exist: the entirety of space, time, matter, and energy as well as the physical laws and constants that describe them. The various universes within the multiverse are sometimes called parallel universes.
The structure of the multiverse, the nature of each universe within it and the relationships among the various constituent universes, depend on the specific multiverse hypothesis considered. Multiple universes have been hypothesized in cosmology, physics,astronomy, religion, philosophy, transpersonal psychology and fiction, particularly in science fiction and fantasy. In these contexts, parallel universes are also called “alternative universes”, “quantum universes”, “interpenetrating dimensions”, “parallel dimensions”, “parallel worlds”, “alternative realities”, “alternative timelines”, and “dimensional planes,” among others. The term ‘multiverse’ was coined in 1895 by the American philosopher and psychologist William James in a different context.[1]
The multiverse hypothesis is a source of disagreement within the physics community. Physicists disagree about whether the multiverse exists, and whether the multiverse is a proper subject of scientific inquiry.[2] Supporters of one of the multiverse hypotheses include Stephen Hawking,[3]Steven Weinberg,[4]Brian Greene, Max Tegmark, and Alex Vilenkin. In contrast, critics such as David Gross,[5]Paul Steinhardt,[6] and Paul Davies have argued that the multiverse question is philosophical rather than scientific, or even that the multiverse hypothesis is harmful or pseudoscientific.”
Multiverse or Meta Universe is a novel and Daring concept
Multiverse
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This Concept was formulated because of the improbability of the events/inadequate explanation of the recent findings of Science, which can not be explained by our present physical Laws.
“They sequenced five nuclear genes from each species, then applied statistical analyses to construct a tree of relationships called a phylogeny. And that’s when they saw it: deeply nested inside a large group of parasites were our everyday, non-parasitic, allergy-causing dust mites.”While this isn’t the first time that Dollo’s Law has been questioned, it’s the first strong evidence that parasitism might not be the evolutionary “blind alley” we tend to describe it as. The more scientists use genetics to study the evolutionary relationships between organisms, the more they find that Dollo’s Law is less law-like than once thought, broadening our understanding of evolution as a whole and challenging our assumptions about how it works. Which is, really, the brilliance and beauty of science — like life on this Earth, our understanding of the universe is constantly adapting and evolving.(ramanan50.wordpress.com)
Either our understanding of Evolution is wrong, or there is some Laws which we can not understand.
Cloning.
In Cloning, the Oocytes produces a Primordial germ cell (PGC) which undergoes mitosis to form an oogonium. During oogenesis the oogonium becomes a primary oocyte.
Now how and under what Laws, the Oocytes produce the PGC is not known.
2.Geometry.
How is it we are unable to conceive more shapes than Squares, Rectangles,Circles, and variations of these and no other shapes?
3.Brain.
We do not understand many of the activities of the Brain at all.
For instance, the Olfactory Bulb, in the rostral (forward) part of the brain, is responsible for the detection of Odors.
There are two fundamental questions.
a) How and why does the Olfactory Bulb picks up only a particular Odor to the exclusion of all the Odors present in the same Object?
Explanations are there as to the Function , not the cause.
b)In ‘Seizure’ Syndrome’ it picks up Odors not present/
Why and How?
Does this imply that these Odors are present out there and were waiting to be picked up selectively?
The same applies all the Functions of Perception.
Put it simply, Things are out there and we register only certain things.
In that case , if the Things were to exist independent of Our Perceiving them, how do things exist when we do not Perceive them and if so by what laws are they governed?
3.Space and Time.
Till date we do not have a satisfactory definition of Space and Time.
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