Okay, sowhatthisinfluenceonfielddoes, ittakes a littlerandomwalkinthebeginningoftheuniverseonEventuallyitfindsitselfinjusttherightconditionstosuddenlymakethatlittlepocketoftheuniverseexpandveryquickly.
Okay, soifyoulike, I liketothinkaboutthis.
OurfriendEdatCopeland.
He's a prettychilledoutguy, right?
I mean, youwouldagreewiththat.
Verychilledout.
ButthethingaboutEddie's iseverysoft I'veknownhimforquite a fewyearsnow, andeverysooftensomethingwillrilehim.
Theimprintitwouldhaveonthecosmicmicrowavebackgroundwouldbelike a circlesortofcircularshapewithinthetemperaturefluctuations.
Sowe'reactuallylookingforthesethings, Butthisis a leveltwomultiverseand I wouldsaylevelonesnotparticularlycontroversiallevelto a littlemorecontroversial, butstill, I mean, ifyoubelieveinstringtheory, you'd probablybythatlevelthree, ontheotherhand, is I wouldsaycontroversial.
Andthisistheideathatyou'vealreadydone a videoabout.
Soon, wheneverthere's a chancethatwheneverthere's anyprobability, everthere's anyuncertainty, forexample, in a coin, tossit, we'regonnatrytopictureitclassicpictureitsortofmicroscopicallyitdoesn't reallymakesensetodothat.
Butifyouweretotrytodothat, youmightthinkthatwheneveryoutoss a cointhattheuniversesplitsintoand, um, ononewaythatthecoincameuphasanyontheotherway, thecoincameuptailsandthatbothhappenedorphysicalspaceattwodifferentuniversesoccupythesamespace.
LikelikerightnowaswecontinuallyFaulcon.
Split, split, split, split, split, split.
Wherethesenewuniversity?
Well, I thinktheideaisthatwouldberightontopofeachother.
Essentially.
Butyoucan't interferefromonetotheother.
There's nowayofcommunicating.
I don't thinkthat's reallynecessary, though.
Thisis, thisisme.
There's a fewthings I don't likeaboutthisfiercely, youknow, yourwheneveryouhave a split.
Well, whendoesthesplitoccurred?
Atwhichpointdoesthesplitoccurred?
Precisely.
Whenisthat?
I mean, it's alreadytimeuncertaintyinthis.
Soinquantummechanics.
Sowhendoesthesplits a carethat's notreallyclearlyanswered?
Soifwe'reokaywithwavefunctionglassbecauseweunderstanditthroughthis d coherence, I don't thinkthatweneedwhat's wrongwiththeideathatnature's probabilistic?
Whydowehavetohavethat?
Everypossibilityisrealized.
It's a quantum.
Mechanicsisprobabilistic.
That's thewaynaturenature, whatison?
Justbecause, youknow, ourclassicalsortofintuitiontells, isthatandyouknow, weenjoy a deterministicexistence.
Thatdoesn't meancontinentcomicshavetobehavelikedoesn't meanNATOspirit, but I justmeansthatdaytodaythat's howitseemstobehave, buttrulyit's probabilisticandthat's fine, Okay, doesn't meaneverypossibilityhastoberealized.
Sothat's levelthree.
Sothelastoftheseisthelevelforandthisisthelastone.
True, Thelastone.
Thereisnolevelfive.
Sotheideaof a levelfour, thisisverymuchtagmarksthingandverymuchcontroversial.
Sotheideaof a Levelfourmultiversesthefoolingwelookatouruniverse, welookoffphysicalexistenceandwesay, isdescribedby a mathematicalstructurethatseemsreasonable, that I canbuildbuildupgeneralrelativityfromtherulesofmathmags.
AndtheycanTheycandescribetheuniversethat I see, forexample, or I canbuildthestandardmodelformymother.
And I havethismathematicalstructurewhichisthestandardmodelplusgeneralactivityplusallthesethingsthatdescribestheuniverse.
Thismasterweuseisjustthatweusetodescribe, youknow, thestandardmodelofGeneralactivityisjustonecornerofthepossiblehugeroundofmathematicalstructuresthatyoucouldimagineyou'resayingif I justgaveyou a blankpieceofpaperandsogonnamakeupsomenewmathematicsExactlyonthis.
But, I mean, let's thinkaboutitifitevenmakessense, I mean, ononelevel, it's notclearthatthesetofmyownmathematicalstructuresiswelldefined, sothat's a problem.
There's alsothisischallengedbygirdlesincompletenessthereinwhichsaysthattherearesomethingswhich, whicharetrue, butitcan't beproventobetrueonuh, youknow, isthatifyouhave a universewherethat's thecaseandwehave a mathematicalstructurewhichislikethatcannotproperlydescribetheuniverse.
It's just a niceideathatit's almostlikesciencefictionbutserioussciencefiction, becauseagain, reality, tomeatleast, meansthatithassometestableconsequences.