Reply #13: The problem is with the term, "possibility". [View All]

An example often used is the "flip of a coin". There are two "possibilities" - heads or tails. So the "alternative universes" in this scenario are two. But there really aren't two "possibilities", there is only one. Because a calculation that included the type and weight of the coin, the strength of the flipper's thumb, the condition of the coin and the thumb, the condition of the environment of the experiment, the power put into the flip, etc. would give you the exact face that the coin would land on - ergo, no other possibility. "Possibilities" assume that "things" can "happen" in any one of numerous ways. If the "alternative universes" do exist, they may have absolutely nothing to do with the one which we inhabit or with each other. The idea of connecting the various universes as in some way variations on this one, is not founded in any science that I know of. The presence of "other universes" is suggested by string theory, think, and is derived from the postulation of "membranes" constituted from formations of "strings"...