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From: edward@ukma.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Multiple Universes and Infinity
Message-ID: <576@ukma.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Feb-85 14:10:12 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  1 14:10:12 1985
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Organization: Univ. of KY Mathematical Sciences
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Does anyone have an opinion on 'multiple universes'?  So that this 
  question isn't left to too much interpretation, I want to define 
  each 'universe' as something that is created (for lack of a better
  word) when a 'situation' is reduced to a choice of two, such that
  for every outcome there is an opposite.  To better visualize what
  I'm trying to get across, think of a tree with an undefined (if
  not infinite) number of branches and every so often they cross,
  and this also holds true for the tree's roots.  Now to involve this
  idea with life (as in "life, the universe and everything" - and for
  you "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" fans, I know the answer's 
  42), consider some part of a non-descript branch to stand for a
  person's life and for each decision or action - no matter how 
  insignificant - another branch is created that eventually affects
  some other thing (crossing of another branch).  So as to be consistent
  with what I mentioned before, another branch is created this being
  the other's opposite (the one which we do not experience).   
Before I get even more carried away with all of this, am I completely
  off the wall, or does anyone else ponder these things?  I started
  on this particular idea because of a book called "Taking the 
  Quantum Leap".  Someone please reply.
                                Klare Schmidt
				(on edwards account)

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