Astrophysicist Overthinks Rick & Morty - THE MULTIVERSE

[@driverjayne]

"You might remember doing the double slit experiment in school" we clearly did not go to the same kinds of school lol. The highest level science experiment we did in school was boiling water in paper bags.

[@donepearce]

Huh? I started secondary school in 1961. We did the double slit experiment. Towards the end of my time there we even did it with discrete photons. This is standard school physics.

[@alwaysdisputin9930]

Was the boiling point of the water in the bag higher than 100 deg C?

[@WojtekWawrow]

Still better than us. Best we did was rolling weights down a slope

[@wjohnson1110]

😂😂😂 Exactly what I thought.

[@fewbronzegames]

that's not really any more high level than the double slit experiment tbh, it's just a laser and a narrow slit, the interpretation of the results is a little more difficult but i doubt they do much with that in school

[@conradcomics]

Futurama has done both. The quantum mechanics Many Worlds version was the plot of a whole episode. The bubble inflation version was just a first act bit. The latter was in one of the early episodes where Fry wanted to experience all the things that could now be done because it was the future. One of which was traveling to the edge of the universe, where, using a coin operated telescoping viewer, Fry and crew viewed a cowboy universe version of themselves. When asked about an infinite number of them, Fry was told there was only the one, which hints that this was another bubble universe touching ours. The Many Worlds was the Professor made box containing another universe where the results of coin flips were the opposite of their universe.

[@leostankus144]

Should totally do a Futurama video. So many Physics jokes. I feel like Rick and Morty would not exist without Futurama.

[@justforplaylists]

They also did the cyclic model, which isn't exactly a multiverse but is similar.

[@leostankus144]

@@justforplaylists oh yea, they were doing a parody of "The Time Machine".

[@paulwalsh2344]

@@justforplaylists Yeah "The Late Phillip J Fry" relied on Poincaré recurrence time, the idea that if time is infinite that everything, no matter how unlikely, will eventually happen... including an exact copy of our universe and it's history... except 10 feet lower... The minimum Poincaré recurrence interval has been conjectured to be 10 with 10,120 zeros ofter it years long. Over ten times longer than a googol, but imperceptibly small compared to a googol plex.

[@justforplaylists]

​@@paulwalsh2344I imagine that's calculated in a similar way to the 10^(10^29)m distance in the bubble universe example. Kind of curious why the numbers they get are so different.

[@Simple_But_Expensive]

Cat: “Tell Schrodinger I survived, and I’m coming for him!”

[@vincentpelletier57]

But Schrödinger is dead. Or is he?

[@marcusdirk]

😸"Wanted: Erwin Schrödinger. Dead or alive."

[@urbanshadow777]

Schrodinger will be spinning and not spinning in his grave

[@marcusdirk]

@@urbanshadow777 But will he be spinning up or down?

[@ahmetmutlu348]

actually for religious logic ... for god to be fair he/it has to make sure justic=equality to be delivered universe definitely needs a multiverse or atleast multi iterations for booth cases :D ie shrodinger being cat iie switching sides :P which is stable in the terms of newtonian dynamics/protocols .

[@timhiers3617]

When Rick C-137 invents teleportation, Rick Prime lectures him about realizing that "traveling the whole galaxy means that you're the last guy to invent teleportation", and then says he's going to invent something much greater. The teleportation device with the blue portals Rick C-137 invents isn't the "portal gun" -- it's just local-universe teleportation. The portal gun mechanism isn't same-universe teleportation, it's many worlds multiverse teleportation.

[@ArmyGuyClaude]

It also uses concentrated dark matter

[@Persanity]

@@ArmyGuyClaude No, that's fuel for a space ship.

[@Crowelephant]

Can you help me understand what "you're the last guy to invent teleportation" means? I don't get it.

[@robinhodson9890]

It means you tap into a huge existing network of all the other Ricks who've done it before: Then the next Rick who discovers it independently becomes the last one, and so on.

[@timhiers3617]

Given that it's just within the local universe, I would assume it even means that other local-universe aliens have done it, including non-Ricks, since they would still be confined to their local universes. Basically because someone else has previously invented it,, you're just the "last guy" that's done it, not the first.

[@williamrobertson892]

I'm sure someone else has already said this, but The Tardis from "Dr. Who" is described as a bubble universe attached to ours, which is how it travels through time and also why it is bigger on the inside.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Wait, so the Doctor just has their own personal universe? Real estate prices would be through the roof for that.

[@bmxerkrantz]

​@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 there is an episode where they have to go fix the star that powers the tardis. so it's also a Dyson sphere. wicked episode also.

[@falsfire]

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Remember that Rick has his own private pooping universe, or planet at least!

[@robinhodson9890]

It doesn't matter whether the TARDIS uses a different universe or not: It's just a travelling door (wormhole - except such a door would appear spherical). This also explains how the TARDIS is able to park inside itself - at least this stops the Doctor bothering ofher people for a while.

[@xnonsuchx]

I liked the Doctor Who episode saying goodbye to Rose in another dimension where he says he’s burning up a star to just send a message. It kinda demonstrated the idea that while some things might be possible, the power needed to even attempt them make them impractical/impossible (if you’re not as advanced as fictional Timelords).

[@steveokay8810]

"Star Trek:The Next Generation" episode "Remember Me" . Dr. Crusher gets caught in a bubble universe created by a "Warp Bubble" that slowly shrinks causing the crew of the Enterprise to disappear and the size of the universe to shrink until she's the only one left on the ship in a Universe 700 meters across. (And the ship's computer thinks this is totally normal)

[@Le3eFrereBrunet]

And the famous quote Crusher: Computer, what is the size of the universe? Computer: the universe is an hemisphoroid region of a diameter of x million kilometres.

[@chinsta00]

The name of the character seen in this and other episodes, "The Traveler", could be an apt description of someone capable of traveling 10^(10^29) metres away to another bubble. That said, dialogue spoken by "The Traveler" makes reference to "alternate realities", which seems more consistent with the quantum many worlds multiverse.

[@MikeWood]

Came here to check if someone mentioned this before I posted it. Thanks. :)

[@lfrands]

@@MikeWoodme too 🙌🏽

[@steveokay8810]

Please do a React Video to this episode!!!

[@jx6054]

Steins Gate. A Japanese anime where the protagonist accomplishes time travel (more time manipulation). The protagonist also becomes aware of alternate bubble universes. He attempts to force a jump (a universe shift) into the adjoining universe to stop a loved ones death from occurring. Fantastic show.

[@EpsilonUnitGaming]

This is the comment I was looking for! Shame there aren’t more but at least I found one.

[@gavinhillick]

It's worth mentioning that Dan Harmon created both Rick and Morty and Community.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

That was actually two different Dan Harmons. It's the same person, but from different timelines.

[@TheWyrdSmythe]

A key difference between the two is that in Many Worlds, there are branches of a single reality, so doppelgängers are a natural aspect, but bubble universes have no connection to each other, so doppelgängers are purely statistical coincidences and presumably much rarer whereas you’d have an infinite number of doppelgängers in Many Worlds. BTW: the “bubble universe” or “pocket universe” is an old staple of SF that many have mentioned in the comments. These are different from the bubble universes created by eternal inflation. They’re usually smaller and contained next to if not _within_ our universe. “Micro” universes are very popular.

[@fh5926]

If there were an infinite or just very, very, very large number of bibble universes, you'd have doppelgangers there too. You might even have exact copies.

[@trevinbeattie4888]

That reminds me of an episode of “Mork and Mindy” where Mork was literally shrunk down in Mindy’s apartmetn to a quantum scale where he landed in an alternate Earth. And then there was the weak premise of the “Supergirl” movie where Zaltar claimed that Argo City was in “inner space”, and when Kara leaves the city she somehow emerges out of a lake on Earth.

[@kindlin]

Men In Black comes to mind.

[@jaredmuirhead7615]

Schrödinger was trying to demonstrate the incompleteness of QM with his famous though experiment. He didn't think that "dead and alive" for a macroscopic object was reasonable, but it's not clear where the breakdown was between particles and cats.

[@brereton_]

i think becky mightve covered that during her Cambridge PHD

[@__christopher__]

@@brereton_ Or maybe she both did and did not cover it at the same time.

[@DCPetterson]

I suggest you look up analogy in the dictionary

[@TheJAMF]

Showing my age, but there we go. Show that had multi-verses: Quantum Leap, Voyagers, Sliders and Early Edition (and Dr. Who). Some movies that had multi verses, where most only cover the different timeline: Back to the Future, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, 12 Monkees and Looper.

[@WaldoIsMissing]

The One, Jet Li movie

[@chippercorgi2247]

My all time favorite movie, Run Lola Run, is focused on how small changes can lead to wildly different outcomes.

[@brad9189]

Great movie. Except it always makes me think I need to exercise more.

[@MegaFortinbras]

​@@brad9189Every time I've seen it, I feel breathless. I liked seeing Franka Potente in a couple of the Bourne films.

[@jedaaa]

​@MegaFortinbras she's a fantastic actor! She was perfect in the Bourne identity!

[@ts1string]

This is where my mind went, too. Love this movie.

[@mike2884]

I loved that movie ! I had the soundtrack too.

[@scottwolfe6150]

For TV shows i would say Sliders was the first show to describe the multiverse. And a great book about the multiverse is a book called "Dark Matter" by Blake Crouch

[@rsaunders57]

The bubble worlds interpretation occurs a couple of times in Dr Who. They make a couple of bubble universes accessible through some sort of rift at the point where they touch. They ignore the prospect of them forming at great distance, and allow then to touch or move inside each other.

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

And Doctor Who tends (well, the writers tend) to play with alternate reality ideas, which are from the quantum mechanics side, as well. The Doctor has no rules, LOL! ❤❤

[@MonkeyJedi99]

You know what sounds better than the bubble universe hypothesis? The Bublé universe hypothesis. Which is to say, a universe exists where everyone is a Canadian singer/songwriter.

[@juzoli]

It’s not an interpretation, it is completely unrelated. It has nothing nothing to do with quantum physics, and can coexist with other kind of multiverses.

[@danteblankenship6213]

I missed your comment, as I watched this video on my phone. I was suggesting that the void ships suggested a bubble universe, and with either Tom Baker or Peter Davison (I cannot remember which), there were some episodes in null space (which sounds like the space between universes to me).

[@robertklaers25]

Wouldn't the Tardis be one such universe?

[@Chrome166]

Stargate SG-1 does a prerty good job with it, there's an alien device called a "quantum mirror" that allows characters to hop between timelines. They take an interesting nature vs. nurture approach by having most of the characters acting the same in each universe, but being minorly affected by the variations in circumstances, but one character in particular that seems to have a completely different life in every timeline, like she must have left a lot up to chance or spontaneous decisions.

[@lorienator]

I absolute love that you described a universe where everyone has a hamster living in their butts and then say "but then things start getting unrealistic" 😂🤣

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Scientifically, it's 100% possible for people to have hamsters living in their butts.

[@yfarrell]

Becky, US ovens have what’s called a Broiler setting where you put food (mostly meat) right below the heat element on a special pan that catches the juices. It’s a similar effect to barbecuing out doors so maybe that’s where the idea came from. You are just adorable and a great educator!

[@davidzanuy8344]

US Tv Series Fringe (2008-2013) orbits around a allegely mad scientist that kidnaps 'his son' from a parallel universe becuase in ours he lost him.. it always refers to the QM many worlds interpretation. I watched it 15 years ago but I would swear in there the same character from different worlds had different personalities but with certain common core. As it should be as long as their genetic make up is identic or very similar. Incidentally, I'm an associate professor of Chemiatry and I must congratulate you. Your hability to explain very complex concepts using plain words is amazing. I love listen to you.

[@bruceleenstra6181]

The other son was going to die of the same thing so when the scientist failed to communicate with the other universe he kidnapped the son so he could cure him.

[@davidzanuy8344]

@@bruceleenstra6181thanks for the clarification. I didn't recall those details :D

[@thurisas8438]

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter wrote a series of five novels in a multiverse setting: The Long Eart, The Long War, The Long Mars, The Long Utopia and The Long Cosmos. They are settled in a many worlds scenario.

[@mikesbasement6954]

Schroedinger apparently never had a cat. Cats would have played with the box, made noises, and generally let everybody in the room know they were in the box.

[@TheVicar]

I suspect that he just didn't like cats, so would lure them into his home and put them in boxes. Therefore his neighbours wouldn't know if their cats had gone missing forever and hence whether or not they were alive or dead at any one time

[@deisisase]

In Ben 10 Alien Force there is an obscure reference where the 'gang' is transported to an empty space and directed to look out the window, they are told a fuzzy blob is the universe and that another fuzzy blob is another universe. Sounds like they use bubble universe in that context.

[@omnikei]

Broil is cooking by intensely heating the top side. You might caramelize a roast by broiling it after roasting it, or lay out veggies on a sheet pan and broil them. There's typically two settings: high and low.

[@anthonydejong769]

This

[@lunasophia9002]

An important detail missing from this explanation is that ovens in the US have a large, powerful heating element at the top referred to as the broiler, which is what's used for this.

[@shaunfarrell3834]

So basically it is grilling.

[@markbooth3066]

Yup@@shaunfarrell3834 , it's very confusing as it doesn't sound even vaguely 'right' to British ears. *8') It certainly sounds wrong to "Broil" a "Grilled Cheese Sandwich", I mean, Grilled, is in the name!

[@ACockburn1967]

Brit living in the US here. Just to be clear, Broil in the US = Grill in the UK. Grill in the US = BBQ in the UK - confusing but there you go!

[@grahampaulkendrick7845]

A fascinating insight into the concept, Dr.Becky. The sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf has shown two very different characters in two different universes with Arnold and Ace Rimmer due to different life experiences.

[@SteveSWC]

“What a guy!”

[@MrRoboticBrain]

Futurama had an episode about cyclic universes (with your definition probably a bubble universe?) where they build a time machine, which could only go forwards in time. In order to get back to where they started they had to cycle around until they ended up in a universe which was offset by ca. 2m, killing and replacing their "doppelgängers" on arrival. EDIT: ca. = approx.

[@killman369547]

POW! we took care of the time travel paradox!

[@EdinMike]

I’m so annoyed I was so caught up in Rick and Morty, I stopped thinking about Futurama…

[@artemkras]

That's not parallel, that's just a future cycle universe with similar parameters (but not identical: the future one is 10 feet lower). But there are instances of bubble parallel universes in Futurama.

[@dontdononthings7265]

I just learned a new term, ca. meaning circa meaning approximately

[@JoeyPsych]

Futurama explored all the possible physics quandaries it seems.

[@trevinbeattie4888]

In regards to the double slit experiment, I don’t get how you jump from “the photon passed through both slits at the same time” to that photon hitting the detector in multiple places at the same time. Photons are waves and waves don’t have discrete positions so of course the wave will pass through both slits and have an interference pattern on the other side. But there’s only one spot where it hits the detector, and it’s the _probability_ of hitting any given spot which follows the interference pattern. Just because there was a probability of it hitting somewhere else isn’t enough to convince me that there was another universe created where it did; that would require an infinite number of universes to cover the infinite spread of possible target locations for that single photon.

[@DanielSolis]

Futurama might use the bubble universe model. They had a one-time joke where they went to the edge of the universe. Across the barrier, they saw cowboy versions of themselves waving back at them. "So there are an infinite number of parallel universes?" "No, just the two."

[@annmoore6678]

Dr. Becky sentence of the year: "The multiverse is kind of like Marmite among physicists." I will watch all year long to see if you can top that one! Thank you, Dr. Becky! I did learn something from this fun video, but I'm still so terribly at the remedial level that almost ANYTHING you talk about will help me make a bit of progress. BTW, I did try Marmite during one summer living in Bath, but as an American, I will always consider peanut butter to be the universal nutrient.

[@supremeownage8995]

I think the main thing you've missed here is that the Ricks only seem to portal around in something they call the central finite curve, essentially only the universes that have Ricks, or all the new universes forming from existing Rick universes. The series is kinda vague beyond that, other than that Ricks managed to section themselves off from all the other universes where they're not the smartest person in existence. I kinda assumed this was a protection thing, by isolating themselves in their own separate pocket universes they are safe from all the things out there way smarter and more dangerous (That, or an ego thing). This also explains the similarity of personalities as if all these universes branched from "ones with Ricks", they might all share that common ancestry from the moment the central finite curve was created? Regardless, Rick and Morty remains one of the most thought provoking science fictions!

[@GrouchierBear]

I assume it means the central finite curve sections off those universes that have a Rick that meets their specific criteria of "Rickness".

[@dmc009]

Now, you are thinking way to hard about this, too.... kronenburg episode? Just reset. S3 ep 1? I mean. Its a cartoon show that uses science as a plot device. ... krombopulis michael with gerry day care... ? you really think Rick needs to sell antimatter guns to get flurbos to play roy? 'Let's go to promethian nebula! So this jack @ss can finish savin' a life!'

[@drakkondarkspell]

The Central Finite Curve is "a crib for the Universe's biggest baby." It separated the universes where Rick is the smartest man alive from the ones where he is not. Inside the CFC, Rick is supreme. No Rick will be lesser to anyone else. And that is just a total ass move.

[@BimotaMoon]

Thats a "Rickrolling" move.@@drakkondarkspell

[@MainSequence1]

Love this convo lol

[@Dan-Simms]

Broil is to use the just the top elements in your oven, you have to be careful using it b/c it's on full power, so no temp control.

[@drstone3418]

Futurama Did bubble universe. There was a wall separating them

[@davemottern4196]

And if I remember correctly the other Bender wore a hat.

[@kevinstone2287]

Box universe

[@davemottern4196]

@@kevinstone2287 that was a different episode, where the professor created a box that contained a parallel universe which contained a box which contained our universe. That's a whole other model where two universes each contain the other.

[@rxg9er]

Season 3 episode 15

[@fermion5093]

I was going to mention Futurama

[@backwashjoe7864]

Great video Dr Becky! I loved learning some physics with a tie-in to Rick & Morty, this was an awesome treat! :)

[@NomenLuni1975]

Great video as always. The definitive multiverse show is Sliders. It's about a group of scientists (including Jerry O'Connell and John Rhys Davies) who develop a way to travel to other alternative realities that are similar to our own but still different in some way. It's well worth checking out if you haven't already. Also, after thinking about it, the Myst series of computer games may have more in common with the bubble universes interpretation. In the series, each age (i.e. world that you visit through linking books) is supposed to be its own separate universe, but I don't recall it ever stating that each one exists in its own dimension. The bubble theory may fit this one better.

[@David-de6ui]

I loved Sliders, I was a child when it came out.

[@john-or9cf]

Also Fringe…

[@NomenLuni1975]

@@john-or9cf Absolutely. Fringe was fantastic.

[@BimotaMoon]

I love Sliders! "The Midnight Gospel" is another good one to checkout 🍄

[@IceMetalPunk]

Sliders was great! Until season 5 that they didn't expect to ever make... and honestly, season 4 was declining a bit. But the first three seasons were wonderful! 😅 One note, though: only two of the people in the group were scientists, and only Quinn was the one who invented the sliding device. Everyone else was accidentally pulled along with him: Arturo, his professor, had come to see his work when it happened, not knowing anything about it before then; Rembrandt, a singer, happened to be driving past as it happened; and I forget how Wade ended up with them, but she was basically a Best Buy saleswoman.

[@karolinakiraly5706]

Wow, so many clips in this video! Great job, Becky! 💛😄 Also very enjoyable explanation, love this video!

[@NicholasHay1982]

Ironically, one of the more popular beef dishes in America is called the London broil. FYI broiling is basically just grilling, but we usually reserve the term to refer to high-heat oven grilling specifically.

[@reinux]

"Astrophysicist overthinks Rick & Morty" might be the best title for a video I've seen in a while

[@gonnabeadoctorsoon2]

Broiler is a setting on the oven with a separate tray, usually underneath the oven, that turns on the flame to maximum. Used to quickly brown/sear toppings without changing the doneness of something previously cooked.

[@idillj1]

good explanation, but not always like this. The broiler can be in the top of the same oven compartment for baking(especially in an electric oven but also sometimes in a gas oven), and you can cook that way too like oven boiling a steak instead of grilling or pan frying.

[@kilwap147]

Hey Dr. Becky, great episode! One example that came to mind to me right away is the movie Men in Black! If you recall the very end of the movie, it pans out to aliens playing marbles with the different universes!

[@joen0411]

I thought this was going to be a react video to a specific Rick & Morty episode. But instead it was a lesson on multiverse theory. Trojan horse successful. Great video.

[@TechNextLetsGo]

I saw this comment half way through and I'm about to click away because I don't like clickbait.

[@kristophkrieger]

You might remember the TV series Sliders from the 90s. It's plot was based around this concept. Quantum or bubble? "Worm holes to travel between parallel universes"

[@Simple_But_Expensive]

I don’t remember the name, since I read it in the 70’s, but at least one book has used bubble universes. In the book, each universe is slightly different from the next, and so slightly alters the traveler. At one point, the protagonist and antagonist are in a chase where they move so far away from their “prime” universe that they were both fighting as giant worms. The concept of bubble universes hadn’t been proposed by physicists yet, but this is what the author was talking about.

[@MrSlinkyman]

Bubble universe: Isaac Asimov’s novel The Gods Themselves explores the theory of an alternate universe where the physics are different which would be more like bubble than many worlds. Excellent book if you haven’t read it.

[@Morganstein-Railroad]

And another example is Terry Pratchet and Stephen Baxter's Series of books that starts with "The Long Earth" and continues over five novels. Absolutely brilliant.

[@DW_Korell]

I was just scanning the comments to see if anyone else had mentioned The Long Earth series of books. Terry Pratchett is my favourite author.

[@StampeSkovgaard]

I just wrote a comment to recommend looking at the "The Science of Discworld" books, when I saw this suggestion, Pratchett did like the multiverse as a narrative tool.

[@monkerud2108]

Brian's quilted multiverse can still play the role the many world universes play though with respect to Rick and Morty. they just have to travel far enough in distance or scale to find a congruent situation :).

[@Earwaxfire909]

Explaining science using SciFi is a great idea! Please do more!

[@nerdtubewtf]

Gen xer here and one of my favourite books from the 90's(at least cheap in the book stores) The Physics of Star Trek. There are at least 2 editions and from what I recall of the first edition, it was a collaborative effort. Alas, that book dashed my dreams for site to site transport due to energy requirements. But I can still dream about wormholes and dream the cosmos. (I'm a chemistry chica, so my love for quantum dreams is pillar to me ,also I came to chemistry via being a biology chica, just a nerdy chica who felt most at home when learning in uni/college lol)

[@razorraven3151]

There was an Old serie called Sliders Where they use worm hole to go to other Dimension s, searching to get to their own

[@JamieTec]

Any reason we can't have 'many worlds' existing throughout the 'Bubble Universes'? They don't seem to be mutually exclusive with your quick description you gave of them.

[@phunkydroid]

Yes, different types of multiverse can coexist.

[@relint12]

Any universe where I get listen to fine folks like Dr. Becky talk about astrophysics and quantum theory can’t be the darkest timeline.

[@bbbl67]

18:13 The word "broil" means to bake in an oven where there is a heating element on the ceiling of the oven too, and not just the floor. When you run both elements, then both the top and bottom get heated at the same time, and it tends to create a crispy top layer on the baked food.

[@kindlin]

Reply for visibility, the world must know!

[@hotrodandrube9119]

Broiling is heating from the top on its highest setting.

[@kindlin]

@@hotrodandrube9119 Exactly.

[@AramisWyler]

Apparently there's not much differentiation in the UK and Austrailia about grilling from the top vs grilling from the bottom. Seems like a pretty big difference to me, as the fluids are going to go in the same direction either way and that leads to a much different cooking effect.

[@bbbl67]

@@AramisWyler It's not often used here either, just some recipes call for broiling, and that's when it's used.

[@michaelogden5958]

Completely off topic, but BBC News online - American version, at least - had some JWST pics today. I was intrigued by NGC 3351 (Messier 95). At first, I thought, "Wow. Amazing supernova". Then it hit me. That's a freaking GALAXY, in which a SUPERNOVA would be little more than a twinkle as seen from earth. Truly humbling.

[@corychristensen5917]

I've been waiting for this video, Dr. Becky

[@Frontleiche]

The german author Frank Schätzing has a thriller called "Tyrannei des Schmetterling" which uses the bubble concept decently.

[@pikmin4743]

how about Red Dwarf? great take, especially pulling Community in to the mix

[@MainSequence1]

Funny you mention Max Tegmark, ive been meaning to talk to you about him. He's the one who said a live video of you would appear slower, if you were near a black hole, to others away from it, and your video, of others away from it, would be faster.

[@chuckee1987]

Yes - In the USA. Broiling is done on the top rack of our oven usually with no water... Unless you want to melt the pan lid.

[@kevenbassett7323]

Who knows when 'Brillig' is?

[@nocturnus009]

About adhering to multiverse theory I think Oscilloscope Pictures Coherence (2013) is worth screening for a future Astrophysicist reacts video.

[@HeritageCraftsKnowledgeReposit]

I love the way you say "bubbles" 😂

[@Sage_Space]

I enjoyed the first couple seasons of a show called `Sliders` back in the day. it was my first exposure to the idea of multiple worlds and how small things could create big ripples in alternate realities. Shows like that and R&M have very much been great for thinking about What we still possibly have yet to learn about all of creation

[@theharbinger2573]

So I think an episode of ST TOS - Alternative Factor could be an example of bubble universe. Where the Enterprise encounters Lazarus, a being that finds a way to travel to another universe, that happens to be all antimatter. In attempting to connect the two he risks destroying both universes. Could be bubble, could also be extra dimensional. There was a Lazarus in both universes, so it is probably many worlds, but it is a bit ambiguous - if I am remembering properly. It was written in the late 60s, so pretty cool.

[@EdmontonRealEstate01]

Maybe they are perceived as being in the same place at the same time, but in the smallest measure of time, there is a difference as it bounces back between the different points on the wall, giving us the illusion it’s all happening at once, but in actuality is sequential.

[@williambrown9166]

The Flash #123 September 1961 is a pop culture touchstone for bringing out the multiverse to non scientists like me. It may not have been the biggest at the time, but it lead to DC creating a multiverse, years before Marvel thought of it. As a kid in the 70s, I found the whole multiverse idea fascinating simply because of DC bringing the JLA and JSA together once a year. Of course DC and Marvel had the great story tellers and artists changing between the two companies, so they both ended up with it. That and Star Trek's mirror universe were the two that stand out most to a Gen Xer like me.

[@RubelliteFae]

I always found it odd that ST only explored one other universe. Once an author opens that can of worms, it bothers me when they only touch the surface. Same with time travel (which would really just be traveling between different universes of a multiverse by taking the long way around (against the arrow of time and back again instead of cutting across the "now moment"). Once you start that, such a huge number of possibilities are available-so it better be the one of the best damn story from all those possibilities. And, it never is.

[@williambrown9166]

@@RubelliteFae A 90s show called "Sliders" is a great example of that. The premise was exactly that: going between universes where the differences could be big, such as Russia controlling the western half of the US because they colonized it first, to small, like the Golden Gate Bridge being painted blue instead. (The show was set in the San Francisco area). John Rhys-Davies, one of the stars, has talked of his disappointment of the show degenerating into a monster of the week premise, when it could have been so much more. And he was right.

[@RubelliteFae]

@@williambrown9166 Was a huge fan of the first few seasons of Sliders as a kid (though, something about the actor that played the main character felt off-IDK what). The episode where they hadn't yet discovered penicillin always sticks out in my memory for some reason. It definitely fell off over the years. Was a shame how frequently they bumbled their way into figuring out how to help. 😅 Like, they just beat the odds due to luck too often. Loved it as a kid, tho. Also was a fan of Quantum Leap and later a massive fan of Stargate SG1 & Universe (obviously different premise, but similar result).

[@glennmcco]

@@RubelliteFaeI think I might have an answer as to why that is in Star Trek. SPOILERS AHEAD: Star Trek Discovery After the Discovery is sent into the future, Emperor Georgiau is told by a Federation scientist, I think Kovich(David Cronenberg's character), some spiel about the distance between theirs and the mirror universe getting larger, such that getting her back to the mirror universe is impossible with the technology of the Future Federation even though in the past several characters managed to travel and swap universes. I don't know if this is mentioned or alluded to or contradicted in anyway in any other series of ST but it would possibly also mean that this is an example of media using the Bubble Multiverse idea Dr Becky talks about in this video and I hope she sees this comment as it makes her quip about Star Trek towards the end of the video and the fact earlier she mentioned not knowing where to find an example of bubble Universes quite comical. But also, it would mean that if we assume the mirror universe is just the closest other bubble universe, that that is why its the single example we ever see in the show as other Universes would take more advanced or more powerful technology to be able to travel between and the longer after the early 23rd Century setting in the first 2 series of Discovery we're discussing the more difficult it is to even get between these universes.

[@RubelliteFae]

@@glennmcco That's a fair point. I've always presumed the MWI of QM meaning the only thing "increasing distance" between two universes/timelines is the amount of time that has passed since they diverged from each other. This would mean that more recent splits would be easiest to cross between (and also that there would be very little difference between the two). With bubble universes I wouldn't expect proximity to each other to correlate with similarity between the two (probability doesn't care about that proximity). And so, would expect them being vastly different. Thanks for the info. Good to know there's some sense to it even if not the logic of my personal headcannon.

[@cleverabovetheline]

I don't know of any forms of media that explores the bubble universe interpretation, but i am starting to create a sci-fi game set in the far future where us humans managed to develop the tech to form artificial wormholes, generated from a superstructure known as the Hypergate, to travel to any point in the entire universe. Though my game will explore both the bubble universe and the many worlds' interpretations, In the game's lore, it's possible travel to another universe, but the wormhole tech isn't advanced enough to allow the travel to another universe. The wormhole will only form if there's a failure in the coordinates acquisition and thus, thrusting the wormhole into another universe, but it cannot be replicated in any scenario, and the scientists are completely confused on how it's actually happens. If the wormhole does actually open, whenever someone tries to go through, either A, the wormhole collapse before anyone goes through: B, the wormhole collapse as someone is attempting to go through, crushing them: or C, the person gets through but the wormhole collapses behind them, trapping them in that universe.

[@matheuscastello6554]

i think the problem w the bubble theory for fiction are the following: 1 - it implies immediate or near-immediate travel to anywhere within your own universe, which would be an aspect that would be complicated to write for considering how big a universe is and would be difficult to convey in a novel way. what's the difference between a planet 10^10^9m away from one 10^10^19m away within a science fiction universe?? idk maybe you could have your characters visit a very far away anti-matter part of the universe? but that's the best idea i've got. the many worlds interpretation doesn't come with this "spatiality" attached 2 - and most importantly, as far as i understand nothing guarantees our neighboring bubble universes would be similar to ours. heck maybe due to different expansions rates of these neighboring universes, stars never formed, let alone life, let alone different versions of the main characters. meanwhile with the many worlds theory, neighboring universes have diverged more recently, so the same characters are guaranteed to exist in slightly different versions, which is exactly the kind of plot point fiction writers might like to hit! so i think the "many worlds" interpretation is just better for writer convenience and for telling more usual/intuitive stories. though now im curious with how a sci fi piece of media would approach the bubble universes concept!

[@scifirealism5943]

Wormholes could go anywhere But scifi wise- How do you control where wormhole goes? How do you which universe is where? It's always glossed over.

[@hcfornwalt]

I just wrote a similar comment to this before scrolling down and seeing this. As it pertains to rick and morty, they have the central finite curve to wall off similar universes... you're right, adjacent bubbles would not necessarily be similar. So the fact that the central finite curve exists in R&M means it's a multidimensional many worlds storyline. But in any other story that doesn't have something like a central finite curve, I don't see a huge difference between multidimensional many worlds and bubble universes... either your portal moves between dimensions or zaps you to another similar bubble really far away... doesn't change the storytelling.

[@birgitmelchior8248]

Exactly, a bubble universe is, storywise, not that interesting. Stories drive on conflict and recognizing a certain experience. You might somehow travel to another bubble and there might not even be planets or anything familiar. A bubble universe might have different laws of physics, so it might not even be recognizable to us as a universe.

[@zorgus2002]

Stephenson's Anathem has people traveling between worlds that have slightly different laws of physics, not just different timelines. Could be an example of a bubble universe in fiction.

[@dllahr]

Great example. I thought it was many worlds but I didn't know about bubble universe theory at the time and it's been quite a while since I read it.

[@dgrows]

Was Men in Black a bubble because at the end it shows our universe in a marble being played with by an alien

[@borttorbbq2556]

Good question I think it likely is kitty buns had one on its collar

[@AquarianSoulTimeTraveler]

Honestly we do have observational evidence of a Multiverse it's called the Mandela effect and if you haven't personally witnessed some of the things on the Mandela effects list then you have not been living your life to the fullest... ultimately everything is subjective and objective reality can't exist because in order to have objective reality you need to have an observer that exists from the beginning of time all the way to the end of time and even if such hypothetical Observer exists the end of time has not came yet therefore it's all subjective and if you follow the logical progression of the spatial dimensions if a fourth spatial Dimension exists then infinite three-dimensional spatial potentiality can fit into any size four dimensional existence!!!

[@Corvaire]

Indeed, Orion was a galaxy on the cats collar. ;O)-

[@hallgreeny]

No I think it was intended as more a case of scale as others were interacting with our universe / galaxy just as if it was tiny.

[@borttorbbq2556]

@@hallgreeny probably

[@monkerud2108]

it just strikes me as analogous with the scholastic talking about the natural place of a mass, when you don't know how to solve a problem, just play a linguistic trick, say calling something fundamental constitutes a solution to why something happens. that is how i think about the standard story of quantum mechanics as a fundamental framework.

[@DrNothing23]

The film Run, Lola Run does the different choices/different outcomes thing to a T.

[@cabnb0y]

Absolutely forgot that gem

[@craigtevis1241]

I want a Run Lola Run series with each episode starting the same.

[@poldiderbus3330]

I didn't think about it being a multiverse themed movie - but yes! I will love it eternally!

[@jasonrr9817]

There's an episode of Futurama where they go to the end of the universe and they see and wave at the threshold where slightly different versions of themselves that traveled to the edge of THEIR universe that wave back

[@spamfilter32]

Sliders was a great show about the Many Words multiverse theory. Pretty good cast too.

[@ToTheWolves]

I miss Sliders.

[@IceMetalPunk]

I would say that Everything, Everywhere, All At Once's version is more akin to the bubble multiverse. They even show a map of the various universes relative to each other, and describe jumping as "slingshotting" long distances from one universe to another. In fact, they describe the universes in the multiverse as being organized with similar universes closer together, which as a computer scientist I geeked out over, because they basically said the multiverse is a latent space, and each universe is an embedding 😁 (Also, for their personalities: the different variants *are* very different, but the whole point of the jumping technology is that it mixes the minds of both the jumper and their destination together, so you get some of each personality, with the jumper's usually being dominant.)

[@torbjornblomquist894]

By Spock's beard, you really should have included Star trek. Not only in the bloopers.

[@michaelporzio7384]

LOL! "Jim, I think I liked him with a beard better. It gave him character. Of course almost any change would be a distinct improvement," Dr. Leonard McCoy

[@XX-qf5zj]

😂

[@XX-qf5zj]

She’s not into Trek! Whadaya gonna do!

[@billsybainbridge3362]

Dr. Becky - you display an alternate timeline/dimension on every show! It's the Bloopers! :D

[@Seerinx]

D&D Spelljammer *kind of* does bubble universes, each setting (Forgotten realms, greyhawk, dragonlance, etc) is contained in a "crystal sphere" each of which has it's own laws of nature. you can't break out of without a special ship, and the space between spheres is uninhabitable

[@AquarianSoulTimeTraveler]

Honestly we do have observational evidence of a Multiverse it's called the Mandela effect and if you haven't personally witnessed some of the things on the Mandela effects list then you have not been living your life to the fullest... ultimately everything is subjective and objective reality can't exist because in order to have objective reality you need to have an observer that exists from the beginning of time all the way to the end of time and even if such hypothetical Observer exists the end of time has not came yet therefore it's all subjective and if you follow the logical progression of the spatial dimensions if a fourth spatial Dimension exists then infinite three-dimensional spatial potentiality can fit into any size four dimensional existence!!!!

[@wedesloto]

came to the comments searching for this :)

[@quintuscrinis]

8:53 interesting explanation given the talk in recent Night-Sky News episodes suggesting that the universe we see has mega-structures that challenge the idea of a homogenus and Isotropic universe. Does that mean the inflation/bubble-universe theory is less likely.

[@chriswheeler8143]

Terry Pratchett and Steven Baxter's Long Earth has travel between parallel earth's as it's main conceit, with them getting increasingly (though not evenly) strange as you get further away (and some missing an Earth entirely due to cosmic accident).

[@scifirealism5943]

Great series. On post scarcity too.

[@adrianaspalinky1986]

This is my favourite Dr.Becky video yet.

[@brookels66]

Y A S I'm here for any of your videos but this 1 was gold😊👏🏼

[@petersullivan5240]

The Men in Black film, where they are searching for a galaxy on a cats necklace, could possibly be a bubble universe. But I think Stargate SG1 have the quantum multiverse.

[@noppornwongrassamee8941]

I think the reason most multiverse stories don't do the Bubble Universe theory is because Bubble Universes is uninteresting. What's the difference between a Bubble Universe and an alien world? Scale obviously, but a story can't get too big in scale - especially visual stories like movies - without becoming incomprehensible to the audience. As a result, a world where Mushroom people rule won't look that much different from a universe where Mushroom people rule, especially if the human characters are only visiting for a half hour long episode or so. The exception might be fantasy stories where you have entirely different laws of physics being the basis for the fantasy world's magic. Which might technically be a bubble universe, but such worlds typically don't interact with other bubbles that have different physics. And a few such fantasy settings sometimes have our Earth - or something resembling our Earth - be part of it.

[@hcfornwalt]

Also, to travel between bubble universes, you essentially need either giant wormholes, or the ability to travel 10^10^10^googol times faster than light in order to move between them. From a narrative perspective, both of those are essentially indistinguishable from a portal gun. I agree that the energy for actual travel at that speed would seem to be beyond infinite, unless you allowed for some kind of strange matter with different properties (like negative mass?) or whatever. No matter what, you're talking about bizarre fictional physics that is just a bunch of words strung together to serve the plot. So from a story telling perspective, I don't imagine there's much distinction between saying 1) your portal transmits you between parallel universes closely separated in additional dimensions vs 2) Your portal opens a wormhole that travels all the way to a different bubble universe 10^10^10^googol km away instantaneously. The main reason why I think Rick and Morty doesn't do the bubble universe thing is that the central finite curve exists as an actual barrier... In a many worlds paradigm, there's reason to imagine that closely similar universes might only be slightly separated from each other along these extra dimensions, so you can "wall off" universes with similar characteristics. But with the bubble universe concept, there is no reason that similar universes would be adjacent... it's totally random what happens in each bubble, and you might have to skip over 10^10^10^googol bubble universes just to find the one in which you didn't eat that third slice of pizza. There would be no way to create a "central finite curve" to cordon off universes with similar characteristics.

[@notsure2101]

Love seeing the community reference! Fantastic show and fantastic episode

[@hunterharmak]

Yo Becky you gotta get on season 7, there is a scene I have in mind thats a very funny depiction of multiversal travel.

[@realitypoet]

The novel Nophek Gloss by Essa Hansen uses something close to the bubble universe version… though there’s definitely some creative license (the universes are close enough that a spacecraft can travel between them, and universe can be created inside other universes) but it was the first time I saw one that didn’t use the other type.

[@collindwebb]

One of my favorite books is Anathem by Neal Stephenson. It explores the many worlds interpretation of the multiverse. Spoilers: it has people traveling between universes (a ship that can travel between cosmi), and it has people who can choose which universe they want to be in (future oriented multiverse choice) or which universe they happen to already be in (past oriented multiverse choice).

[@Pharisaeus]

I would argue that Anathem actually goes also into the "bubble universe" direction as well, considering the matter in other universes visited by Daban Urnud is different from matter in Arbre universe. Basically the "many worlds interpretation" is used to describe what Incanters can do (so inspect multiple narratives inside a single universe), but the travels Daban Urnud does are actually "jumping into another bubble"!

[@adrianaspalinky1986]

Black holes trick as time slows and so many quantum possibilities can exist at Sam point, but at different times (phase shifts)

[@nigelm5777]

Broiling or Grilling is the use of radiant heat for cooking, usually called grilling in British and Australian English and broiling in US English. Typically this is done in an electric oven, using only the upper heating element, with the door partially open.

[@AquarianSoulTimeTraveler]

Honestly we do have observational evidence of a Multiverse it's called the Mandela effect and if you haven't personally witnessed some of the things on the Mandela effects list then you have not been living your life to the fullest... ultimately everything is subjective and objective reality can't exist because in order to have objective reality you need to have an observer that exists from the beginning of time all the way to the end of time and even if such hypothetical Observer exists the end of time has not came yet therefore it's all subjective and if you follow the logical progression of the spatial dimensions if a fourth spatial Dimension exists then infinite three-dimensional spatial potentiality can fit into any size four dimensional existence!

[@Lawfair]

Wait the oven door is supposed to be partially opened? You learn something new every day....

[@AquarianSoulTimeTraveler]

@@Lawfair oh yeah if you're doing steaks or something and you want to braise the meat at the highest temperature possible the elements are going to stay on longer if the door is open if the doors closed then the elements are going to get up to heat then turn off which is counterproductive getting good broil

[@Lawfair]

@@AquarianSoulTimeTraveler I'll have to remember that for London Broil and lemon butter flank steak. Otherwise I only broil if the BBQ is out of propane.

[@AquarianSoulTimeTraveler]

@@Lawfair another trick for your propane grill is you can get a big bucket of hot water and stick your propane jug inside the hot water it will heat it up and make you have a hotter Flame

[@8_bit_Geek]

I have a distinct memory of learning that a popular rock song was actually a cover of an older 1970’s song. Even remember watching the original video on KZbin back around 2010 or so. Looked it up a few years ago and now this song is written by the current band performing it. But I still have the memory

[@realspacemodels]

The book series (excellent audio book) "His Dark Materials" by Phillip Pullman explores the multiverse (and gets into some religious stuff too) in a way that is clever and well thought out. The books are The Golden Compass (also titled Northern Lights), The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass. There have been movies and TV series of these books as well. Well worth checking out for multiverse fans.

[@jordanbark5682]

I'm glad you like the show. I love your nail-polish and taste in animated shows. Rick & Morty is pretty awesome.

[@nicholasayres3265]

As I remember, didn't Max Tegmark say that Everetts theory instead of being many worlds was in fact one in which the Wave Function never collapsed rather than actual physical universes.

[@__christopher__]

Exactly. The many worlds don't live in different dimensions, they are different branches of the same wave function. The split isn't really a physical process; the only thing that physically happens is entanglement. The universe *appears* to split because the observer gets entangled with it (which is a result of interacting with it, which in turn is necessary to observe to begin with), meaningful observation can only happen in the observer's pointer states (as otherwise, any observational data held by the observer would quickly decohere away), and thanks to linearity of quantum mechanics, orthogonal branches evolve independently.

[@DocTwisted]

The novel Fuzzy Dice by Paul Di Fillipo seems to depict a kind of "bubble universe" model in the final chapter as the afterlife the protagonist enters.

[@kelceysmith]

It’s been a long time since I’ve watched it but I’m pretty sure Sliders was based on the bubble theory. They didn’t really cover the science much in the show but I vaguely remember them using bubble universes for artistic imagery.

[@doug-Hakura]

I am surprised at just how much I enjoyed this video and hopefully learnt more. Well done.

[@BrianDeegan-l5n]

The first Men in Black movie had a version of bubble universes - "The galaxy is on Orion's Belt". An entire galaxy was encapsulated in something the size of a marble. I know, galaxy vs universe, but still...

[@lemmy303]

I agree that it seems to suggest many worlds interpretation. But then we often see interpretations of Rick and Morty like they are 'Rick and Morty but they are green aliens' and stuff that doesn't seem to fit with any sensible branching point of our Earth / universe in a many worlds model, the 'any event that could happen has happened in another universe' idea doesn't seem to hold as well. Where if it were bubble universes it would be therefore just infinity of every combination of matter thus a giant green alien blob version of Rick and Morty would necessarily exist somewhere.

[@randalscott7224]

There is an episode of Star Trek the Next Generation, one of the very early ones that introduced a character called the "Traveller" that seemed to deal with the "bubble" Universe. The Enterprise is hurled a huge distance to another Universe. "Where No One Has Gone Before" I think.

[@mikejng]

Baking or roasting cooks by raising the ambient temperature inside the oven, and there are convection bake/convection roast settings that use a small fan to circulate the air so the cool food can't cool off the nearby air as much; this results in shorter cooking times. As others have said, broiling is cooking by radiant heat from a very hot element at the top of an oven; it browns or cooks the surface without really heating the interior of food. And just for completeness, boiling down means to boil off water from a dilute solution to increase the concentration of the good stuff. For example you can take watery sap from a maple tree and boil it down to a thick delicious maple syrup!

[@rastarn]

I remember watching a documentary some time ago, that talked with different physicists, all working at a large, think tank location. One of the many worlds interpretation models proposed by one of them, posited that individual universes hung, ebbing and flowing, like multiple layers of thin sheets in a breeze, at subatomic small distances apart from each other. Every so often, two of those sheet universes may brush against each other, and that would cause a big bang, creating a new sheet universe. I can't remember who it was, but I still love that visualisation.

[@evangonzalez2245]

That's brane theory 👍

[@erdami2161]

I ran out of “conspiracies” and then your channel popped up. Love it and appreciate your takes/knowledge on some of my favorite topics. 🤙🏾

[@RyuichiNoGekido]

In Futurama, while there was an episode with a bunch of interdimensional boxes that would probably be considered "many worlds" type universes; there's also an episode where they travel to the edge of the universe and there's another universe waving back at them through coin operated binoculars. That might be bubble, but it's stated that there's only the two universes.

[@Loxo74]

Hi there, there's no such thing like a superposition, because either the cat is dead or it is alive, if cats care for their lives, what they often don't do, it will stray inside the box and spill the poison. Next, if you send particles in row they will appear where they are spotted on, if you send them in a big wave some will pass through the slit and appear on the other side. There are no double sided particles possible! Because of the angle of the direction where they coming from.