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Monday, January 16, 2012

Many worlds :: Existence of Many Truths

A search for an absolute truth becomes more irrelevant when we take in account the Many Worlds just like our, many people exactly like us can exist in a parallel world around us with their own version of truth.
"There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that play the devil", said Alfred Whitehead, a mathematician and philosopher.
Also Neil Bohrs once said,"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." 
When there can exist mutually opposite truths in same universe then the sheer number of truths co-exisiting in multiple universe will be overwhelming.
The many-worlds interpretation is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that asserts the objective reality of the universal wavefunction, but denies the actuality of wavefunction collapse. Many-worlds implies that all possible alternative histories and futures are real, each representing an actual "world" (or "universe"). It is also referred to as MWI, the relative state formulation, the Everett interpretation, the theory of the universal wavefunction, many-universes interpretation, or just many-world.
In many-worlds, the subjective appearance of wavefunction collapse is explained by the mechanism of quantum decoherence, which resolves all of the correlation paradoxes of quantum theory, since every possible outcome of every event defines or exists in its own "history" or "world". In lay terms, there is a very large—perhaps infinite—number of universes, and everything that could possibly have happened in our past, but did not, has occurred in the past of some other universe or universes.

9 comments:

Saru Singhal said...

Quite profound and thought provoking...Truth and life is indeed multi-dimensional and multi-facet...

Subhorup Dasgupta said...

There is a certain attractiveness to the relativity of truth, yet there are certain truths that are irrefutable. The inherent gentleness of living beings, compassion, integrity, these are things that remain unchanged across time and realities. Very thought inspiring post.

Kapil Sharma said...

Thanks Saru and Subhorup

Unknown said...

i think i saw a show on this the other day and found it very intresting as well...really this is food for thought..thanks for sharing..enjoyed reading will come back soon:)

Apeetha said...

I like it- inspite of not being able to keep up with the technical terms. I get the drift though, and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Kapil Sharma said...

@Alka Narula

Indeed the show nspired this post

Thanks for visiting

Kapil Sharma said...

@Apeetha

Thanks a lot for visit..glad u liked it

Kitty said...

Very deep in the sense and a thought provoking post ! liked it :)

Kapil Sharma said...

glad u liked it..thanks for visit Kitty :)