Alternate Universes

Dette er et refleksjonsnotat i etterkant av videoen som ble publisert på Snakkomtro og spredt på Facebook, hvor jeg tar for meg innvendingene som ble gitt på Facebook, blant annet om Lawrence Krauss mener at universet kan ha kommet fra ingenting, og mange flere.

A theory about the universe, alternate universe, and how the current knowledge on the structure of atoms can be extrapolated in size to correlate to numerous "universes" that may simultaneously exist. A suggestion or theory on the structure, and dimensions of the universe as we know it that one day be proved to be a fact, or simply fiction. Published in June 1995.

By blending fantastical and historical elements, Kaiji Kawaguchi’s Zipang (2000–2009) delivers an interesting and ambivalent vision of Japan’s WW2 history. The manga occupies a somewhat particular place both in the genre of alternate history and in the contemporary debate about Japan’s military, which in recent years has been heating up through new policies about active national security that stand in sharp contrast to the nation’s constitutionally formulated war-renouncing and peaceful aims.

This paper is about a way I have developed to model everything in the universe for both biological and artificial lifeforms. It uses Fuzzy Logic, Library Subject Indexing, System of Systems, Cause and Effect, Sensemaking,  and Interval Mathematics.

"Science will not trust us with another world."      Emily Dickinson

Forthcoming speculative paper:

Dark Matter could indeed be the presence of the future - perhaps even in some strange hybrid, invisible, transitionally fluid state - not quite fully matter, and not quite fully energy.

"Science will not trust us with another world."      Emily Dickinson

One of the great mysteries of physics today is what to make of the vast unaccounted for presence of what we call “Dark Matter”.
Physicists, being based in and on the world of the physical, are poring through calculations, but seem stuck at the conceptual level. Conceiving of some thing that might fit the bill of being present, and yet absent - or at least un-observable – is a real problem for the human mind.
I want to suggest a possibility.
It’s very simple, conceptually, but its “proof of pudding” may take an eternity – at the very least.

Dark matter might just be the “presence” of the future.

Paper forthcoming:  December, 2016.

"We cannot tell that we are constantly splitting into duplicate selves because our consciousness rides smoothly along only one path in the endlessly forking chains."

This forthcoming paper will explore some highly speculative - even preposterous - but seductively appealing recent models of the physics of time-space and dimensionality.
It will be argued that although these models are seemingly impossible to test in the external world, they may have a profound truth and validity in the internal world of the human unconscious mind.

Psychoanalytic clinical material will be presented which convincingly suggests that we all live, emotionally, just as much in the worlds of possibility as we do in the world of " external reality ". For example, the loss of a baby may bring devastating grief or depression to a mother as much (if not more) for mourning the losses of imagined possible futures for that lost child, and for that potential mother, as for the loss of the  " actual baby. "

Whether or not parallel worlds and alternate realities and timelines exist in the physical world seems highly un-possible, and fraught with infinite contradiction. But in the unconscious world of the cognitive-emotional mind, we may be certain not only of their existence, but of their intense and profound psychological influence. To ignore the importance of a person's hopes and dreams of possibility in the formation of emotionally real losses and joys, even if deeply unconscious, is to forego the chance to truly understand their human self.

Of course, all this leaves wide open the issue of where, in the mind, theories of Physics - indeed of all scientific disciplines - are conceived.

  At the very least, this paper argues the importance of "mental" parallel universes and alternate realities in the formation and perseverance of depressive feelings.

The film "Mr. Nobody" (2009) and others are used to explicate these ideas.

The thought of parallel universes is often relegated to the realms of science fiction. Despite some astrophysicists developing intricate theories about multiverses, they don't appear to apply to our daily life on Earth, and we don't give them too much thought. Reality seems to be one, and only one. So we focus on it, as if there were nothing else to worry about. But what if this world is not what it seems? What if reality is actually much more complex than what we see? How would your life change if you knew that the world you perceive is just one option among many other available options, and that you see it, and not any of the others, because it is the one that you are choosing to perceive? There is a volume of evidence supporting the fact that our thoughts actually affect matter, but the mechanism behind this, and why this happens, is completely unknown. This is probably because we are seeing this all from the wrong paradigm. The " one reality " linear model currently held by most people and scientists is full of failures and paradoxes. It seems to be like that, the same way that the Earth seemed to be a plane and the other celestial bodies seemed to rotate around it. But now we know that appearances can trick us, and this can be the biggest example of it.

Fan fiction alternate universe stories (AUs) that combine Game of Thrones characters and settings with fairy tale elements construct a dialogue between realism and wonder. Realism performs a number of functions in various genres, but becomes a particularly tricky concept to tie down in fantasy. Deployments of realism in " quality TV " series like Game of Thrones often reinforce social stigmatization of feminine genres like the romance, melodrama, and fairy tale. The happily-ever-after ending receives significant feminist criticism partly because it falls within a larger framework of utopian politics and poetics, which are frequently accused of essentialism and authoritarianism. However, because fan fiction cultures place all stories in dialogue with numerous other equally plausible versions, the fairy tale happy ending can serve unexpected purposes. By examining several case studies in fairy tale AU fan fiction based on Game of Thrones characters, situations, and settings, this paper demonstrates the genre's ability to construct surprising critiques of real social and historical situations through strategic deployment of impossible wishes made manifest through the magic of fan creativity.