Time Need Not End In The Multiverse
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Gamblers already had enough to think about without factoring the end of time into their calculations. But a year after a group of cosmologists argued that they should, another team says time need not end after all.
It all started with this thought experiment. In a back room in a Las Vegas casino, you are handed a fair coin to flip. You will not be allowed to see the outcome, and the moment the coin lands you will fall into a deep sleep. If the coin lands heads up, the dealer will wake you 1 minute later; tails, in 1 hour. Upon waking, you will have no idea how long you have just slept.
The dealer smiles: would you like to bet on heads or tails? Knowing it’s a fair coin, you assume your odds are 50/50, so you choose tails. But the house has an advantage. The dealer knows you will almost certainly lose, because she is factoring in something you haven’t: that we live in a multiverse.
The idea that our universe is just one of many crops up in a number of physicists’ best theories, including inflation. It posits that different parts of space are always ballooning into separate universes, so that our observable universe is just a tiny island in an exponentially growing multiverse.
In any infinite multiverse, everything that can happen, will happen - an infinite number of times. That has created a major headache for cosmologists, who want to use probabilities to make predictions, such as the strength of the mysterious dark energy that is accelerating the expansion of our own universe. How can we say that anything is more or less probable than anything else?
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So, for years I’ve been asked why I dislike “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” or pretty much any role Natalie Portman has ever played, and I would always ramble incoherently for awhile in response about really static and contrived characters being passed off as the most dynamic of all just because they like dyeing their hair, etc. I just found out that this is a thing, and it’s referred to as a “manic pixie dream girl,” and why hasn’t anyone told me before now?
Well. That’s adorable.
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GOOD AFTERNOON, BETH. I WAS WONDERING IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE MY DATE FOR-
NO. WAY TOO STIFF.
HEY BETH! HOW ARE YOU TODAY? YOU WANT TO GO TO-
EHHHHHH, TOO JOLLY.
SO … BETH … DOING ANYTHING ON THE 15TH?
JESUS, WHAT ARE YOU, THE FONZ? COME ON. PULL IT TOGETHER.
YO, BETH! GIRL, LET ME HOLLA AT CHU!
THAT WAS KIND OF COOL, ACTUALLY, BUT STILL NO.
… AT THIS RATE I’LL BE ASKING HER TO NEXT YEAR’S PROM.
I accept! This is Beth and I accept!!!
"I’m scared of Yellowstone, which is a super volcano in America. It’s set to go in the next 50,000 years and that keeps me up at night."
— Daniel Radcliffe (via wenbys)
YES ME TOO DAN
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What’s this? It wasn’t a red car that crashed through the building! It was…ohhh yeaaahh.
Oh god, most relevant local meme tumblr everrrrrrrr!
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I SMELL AWESOME TODAY.
Haha! I used to have a bunch of 80’s aerobics videos that my mother and I would follow, and they really were like this.
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I always wanted my bedroom to be in a big attic; how mysterious.
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In the beginning of practice, we focus primarily on learning the form of meditation. We learn how to work with our bodies so that we can sit comfortably in zazen with good posture and natural breathing, and we learn how to work with our minds so that we can focus our attention. At some point we experience an opening to our true nature. We call that first experience of nonduality ‘the shift’ because it is a shift from our usual way of perceiving reality. Suddenly, instead of perceiving only the apparent reality, what appears to be so, we have a direct experience of the absolute reality that underlies and pervades all things, including the self. Once we have glimpsed the absolute, the self never again seems so solid or permanent. Our usual way of perceiving the self and the world has been cut through, even if only for an instant, and it becomes easier to remember that duality is just one side of reality.
Genpo Roshi.
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I want a Nook NOW.
