@werehatrack Nah. Our socks go to another dimension where people are irritated that they never show up in matched pairs. We seem to be the destination for roadside trash and wire clothes hangers.
@blaineg It’s the only reasonable explanation for where Meh gets all the stuff they sell, especially on Mehrathons.
It also explains how they can find room in their warehouses for all the stuff – they don’t have to!
The notion of other dimensions/parallel universes, etc. is linked to quantum mechanics. I won’t attempt to try to explain the why’s and how’s of what happens when quantum wave functions “collapse,” if, indeed, they do collapse, and the universe splits each time this happens resulting in an infinity of universes.
But just as waves on the surface of pond are all independent of one another (no kidding), the sum of all quantum waves for each universe is in turn independent of every other set of quantum waves. Thus each universe is separate and orthogonal to every other universe.
Has anyone else seen a UFO? I did when I was a kid back in the 70’s. Nothing much to say about the sighting, it was only one time and I just remember being extremely excited. Whatever was going on at that time when my friend and I saw it, absolutely no one doubted us.
If interdimensional transfer were possible, our dimension would be overrun with all the socks from somewhere else.
@werehatrack Nah. Our socks go to another dimension where people are irritated that they never show up in matched pairs. We seem to be the destination for roadside trash and wire clothes hangers.
@rockblossom
Roadside trash comes from this dimension.
But if wire coat hangers are slipping through from elsewhere, why is there never one around when I need a welding rod?
@rockblossom @werehatrack Socks are the larval form of coat hangers.
@blaineg Pretty sure that is paper clips.
It’s the only reasonable explanation for a lot of stuff.
@blaineg a lot of people
@blaineg It’s the only reasonable explanation for where Meh gets all the stuff they sell, especially on Mehrathons.
It also explains how they can find room in their warehouses for all the stuff – they don’t have to!
@blaineg @phendrick It’s bigger on the inside!
@phendrick @ybmuG
My SIL crossed over from hell.
The notion of other dimensions/parallel universes, etc. is linked to quantum mechanics. I won’t attempt to try to explain the why’s and how’s of what happens when quantum wave functions “collapse,” if, indeed, they do collapse, and the universe splits each time this happens resulting in an infinity of universes.
But just as waves on the surface of pond are all independent of one another (no kidding), the sum of all quantum waves for each universe is in turn independent of every other set of quantum waves. Thus each universe is separate and orthogonal to every other universe.
Check out this.
The mind is boggled --infinitely, it would seem.
or on the other hand,
meh…
@Jackinga
Meh, indeed. An infinity of inaccessible unique universes is infinitely pointless, useless, and irrelevant to us.
Isaac Asimov’s The Gods Themselves
@rockblossom I read this!
Has anyone else seen a UFO? I did when I was a kid back in the 70’s. Nothing much to say about the sighting, it was only one time and I just remember being extremely excited. Whatever was going on at that time when my friend and I saw it, absolutely no one doubted us.
No, it’s just science fiction.
Trousers of Time.
This is actually the premise of my silly improvised comedy podcast Dispatches from the Multiverse, now in its fourth year with over 170 episodes.