From: user6340@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   JTEM  posted:   
   > On 12/25/25 3:42 PM, Steven Douglas wrote:   
   > > JTEM  posted:   
   > >> On 12/24/25 3:53 PM, Steven Douglas wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >>> If the Multiverse is true, it's all part of God's   
   > >>> Creation.   
   > >>   
   > >> It's true. How it works? I dunno.   
   > >   
   > > How do you *know* it's true?   
   >   
   > All the observations are consistent with it being true.   
   >   
   > Start with something you are quite familiar with:  Relativity.   
   >   
   > According to Einstein, and everyone seems to agree with him at   
   > least this far, not only does your observation/experience with   
   > time depend on your perspective, but it's correct for all the   
   > different perspectives.   
   >   
   > "It's relative!"   
   >   
   > So two or more people can observe the same event, see it work   
   > out totally differently and both be right.   
   >   
   > Both outcomes are real.   
      
   That happens in this one universe. How does that   
   cause you to *know* that the Multiverse is real?   
   >   
   > >> Originally I thought of it as different places. But now   
   > >> I grasp that there's only one universe in all the potenital   
   > >> states at once.   
   >   
   > > What do you base your *grasp* on?   
   >   
   > Reality. See above.   
      
   Reality happens in this universe. It doesn't explain   
   how you *know* that the Multiverse is real.   
   >   
   > >> But there is only one universe in the Multiverse.   
   > >   
   > > But, as you said above, in all the potential states   
   > > at once. So all the multiple universes exist in the   
   > > same universe as ours, with the Sun and Mars and the   
   > > Pacific Ocean and Europe, etc. -- but with the other   
   > > versions of yourself being either better off or worse   
   > > off than you are in this one?   
   >   
   > The Multiverse isn't like a house with different rooms,   
   > and there's a different version of you in each room...   
   >   
   > Tomorrow you may win the lottery. You may get hit by a   
   > meteorite. You may run into someone you haven't seen in   
   > decades. You may have super models throw their bodies   
   > at you, begging to be serviced. You may, you may, you   
   > may...   
   >   
   > All of those are potentialities. No, not with the same   
   > probability but all potentialities. So they all exist   
   > but you will be conscious of only one.   
      
   How is that different from Sliders (other than   
   the main character sliding from one reality to   
   another)?   
   >   
   > >> It's complicated. It's not as easy as we want it to be   
   > >> and it's why something like "Sliders" is totally false.   
   > >   
   > > Did you ever see the "Star Trek the Next Generation"   
   > > episode titled Parallels?   
   >   
   > Yes.   
      
   So does that episode accurately (or even closely)   
   portray what you *know* the Multiverse to be?   
      
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