Tero wrote:I want to know what I can use all these other universes for, is there some profit?
You can't use them for anything, but they can use you, just as this one is using you now. One of them will probably bring you into existence again some time, just like this one did. And then kill you again, just like this one will.
Tero wrote:
Can I steal their oil?
Don't even think about it. All possible monkeyworlds will raise up a great cacophony of screeching and caterwauling even if there is only a loony conspiracy theory in which you steal the oil. You can, however, get clean away with taking large sums of siphoned-off cash from a sanctioned, oil-owning mass murderer, in almost any monkeyworld.
But seriously, there is at least one Everett-branch in which "you" already have stolen the oil, having become a caricature of the Bush-like oil-stealing character in that branch.
In The Grand Design we explain why, according to quantum theory, the cosmos does not have just a single existence, or history, but rather that every possible history of the universe exists simultaneously. We question the conventional concept of reality, posing instead a "model-dependent" theory of reality.
Yes, I've always been partial to that approach. Took them long enough to get around to it. Among other advantages, it is an excellent way to eliminate the fine-tuning improbabilities. Every possible tuning exists. We are here because this is the kind of universe we would be in. On this planet because this is the kind of planet we would be on. And there is no shortage of them. Heaven really does hold a place for those who pray. Or don't pray. Whatever. Ain't no big thang. A trillion of them are just as easy as one.
It is also interesting that a universe of all possibilities would include a large number of "me's", some of whom would be lottery winners and such. And somewhere out there, there is a "me" whose squeeze is Veronika Zemanova. And that "me" is just as much "me" as this one, which might be a bit difficult for some to grasp, but then, so is quantum mechanics. Don't even try to understand, just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy.
And Toontown looked upon Hawkinge's universe and saw that it was very good...
