Before the Zero

[David Morris]

http://www.sanskritimagazine.com/indian-religions/buddhism/origin-of-world-and-multiverse/

Numerous Bhuddist sutras posit infinite parallel universes with infinite
other Bhuddhas. See Indra's net, a spiders web holding drops of water at
each intersection. Each intersection holding the image of all other
droplets and their reflected images. It it an image of the infinity mirror
times infinity.

David Morris



On Friday, April 1, 2016, Doug Millison <dougmillison at gmail.com> wrote:

> Enjoying the group read so far.  I am especially curious to hear what
> readers think about ways that GR may reflect the theorizing that has
> developed into the ongoing discussion about the multiverse.
>
> "All fiction that does not violate the laws of physics is fact."
> -David Deutsch, THE BEGINNING OF INFINITY in the chapter called "The
> Multiverse" (2011)
>
> From the same chapter: "....Whenever we observe anything - a scientific
> instrument or a galaxy or a human being - what we are actually seeing is a
> single-universe perspective on a larger object that extends some way into
> other universes. In some of those universes, the object looks exactly as it
> does to us, in others it looks different, or is absent altogether. What an
> observer sees as a married couple is actually just a sliver of a vast
> entity that includes many fungible instances of a couple, together with
> other instances of them who are divorced, and others who have never
> married...."
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse
> ....The multiverse (or meta-universe) is the hypothetical set of finite
> and infinite possibleuniverses, including the universe in which we live.
> Together, these universes comprise everything that exists: the entirety of
> space, time, matter, energy, and the physical lawsand constants that
> describe them.
> The various universes within the multiverse are called "parallel
> universes", "other universes" or "alternate universes."....
>
>
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