Well, by now everyone should be completely satisfied
that waves
and stuff propagate between parallel universes in the
Multiverse.
Right?
<<ahem>>
..I refer the honourable gentleman to my previous
answer.
<<mumble>>
Oh I see, it’s not merely you’re dubious, you don’t like
quack
theoretical
stuff- << where’s the invention? >>you mutter
Hey- I’ve looked into patents and it turns out all sorts of
abstract
things can be patented (obviously it helps if you know
the guys in
USPTO to bribe) from “pathways”, grey areas,
relationships.. what
you may call an invention has gotten quite broad..
Not so long ago someone actually patented the BRACA1
cancer gene,
which many would say nature had prior claim to. . This
was horrible
for the guy who picked up a whopping BRACA1-style
cancer on his
lower lip the next day: not only did he have cancer, he
was fined for
operating a BRACA1 gene factory without a license. To
cut a long
story short, bailiffs were sent in with scalpels, the
factory was
removed from his lower lip, and the fine was lifted.
happy (ish)
ending .
(Until the cancer came back bigger on the guy’s left ear.
But by this
time the patent had sadly been overturned. No more
bailiffs with
scalpels. He had to pay full whack to MoneyMed USA to
have it
removed. )
But I digress..
The point is, you can probably now patent nearly
anything, including
a “pathway” - which is what this is. A slightly iffy
invention. In the
right place for it.
Here we imagine a super-massive black hole in one
universe of the
multiverse, in superposition with an infinity of other
similar black
holes, all of which are infinitesimally smaller in turn
than each
other, and nested inside one another, across universes.
This creates a
‘composite’ black hole, or really just one a massive ball
of event
horizons, like onion layers, and ne’er a singularity to be
seen.
But only, of course, if you follow a rather ‘unlikely’ flow
of
spacetime/stuff into the first event horizon, side-hop
into the next
universe, straight into the next horizon, side-hop into
the next
universe. Then into the next event horizon..And so on
add
Infinitum. This is the “pathway” I mentioned. And what
the hell are
the chances you end up on THAT?
Fortunately the anthropic principle takes care of that
little issue, (as
it can be relied on to do in these matters. ) Assuming
being on that
pathway is a pre-requisite for existing in the present
moment, you
MUST be on that pathway. I can’t speak for any
following moment.
Probably ‘you’ will end up in a raging gravitational
singularity, having
not made the sideways jump.
But don’t worry! Somebody who thinks he’s you will
make the jump.
And know nothing of raging singularities. His memory will
look back
unperturbed. That’s the beauty of memory and the
Anthropic
Principle. There is only THIS moment. (An event horizon
is a perfect
recording device, a truly stellar memory)
Hello, I see you’re back...I mean, I see you never went
away.
Anyway, that’s the basic idea: we are all just the flow of
spacetime
/‘stuff’, sucked over event horizons at the speed of
light, each
horizon crossed representing the tick, tick, tick, of time
- like still
frames across the beam of a projector, for eternity. (I’m
assuming
each event horizon is a little different to the one before.
Otherwise
not much would happen). If you prefer you can think of
this as event
horizons propagating outward with spacetime staying
still. It’s the
same thing. Either way we’re going through spacetime at
the speed
of light. Which is relativity, right?
It so happens this model also gives quite a nice
explanation for why
entropy increases for us, even though it’s time-
symmetric, and
should increase too towards the past. But I expect I’ve
warbled on
enough already.