What if the world really did end on the
21st December 2012 and our consciousness was simply
transferred to one of our other bodies in a multiverse system?
The Mayan Apocalypse was, as
apocalypse's go, pretty pathetic... at least to our perception, and
we've all had fun joking about it failing and us still being here or
using photoshop to make pretend fire and brimstone all across the
globe. I too took great delight in taking two beloved fictional
characters who are known for saving the world a lot into a work of
photoshop fun to imply that they saved the world together. I mean
what geek doesn't want to see The Doctor teaming up with Buffy the
vampire slayer...
But all joking aside and back to my
original point, what if the world really did end yesterday and we
just don't think it did because of a perception complexity we just
cannot fathom. Multiverse theory works on the theory that every
possible option or outcome does happen splitting off to form an
infinite number of possible universes because everything has to stay
in balance so to simplify it if something can be “on” there has
to be an option for “off” in existence, or “up” must be
paired with “down” etc. These multiverses don't necessarily all
last as not all options are viable in life, so it is possible that
once a multiverse has reached it's end it recombines with the last
universe it split from where the option chosen was successful.
So how does this effect us on a
perceptual level, well consider the possibility that our
consciousness is connected across the multiverses on some level and
when a universe fails the consciousness is recombined with it's last
split point just like the rest of the universe. Now assuming in this
situation that this was true and a perfectly benign recombination led
to absolutely nothing noticeable to your perception you probably
wouldn't even know this system was happening... but what about the
abnormal recombinations such as universes that got out of sync with
each other for some reason leading to one getting further ahead
before it failed, what then? Well one option could be an explanation
for moments of Deja Vu or perceived Precognitive abilities, a glitch
in the recombination of memories would be inevitable if there were
memories in existence for one universe than hadn't happened yet in
the other – potentially leading to a moment of Deja Vu and in
effect giving the person an instantaneous glimpse of at least one
possible outcome of their actions for the duration of the time
overlap or in some cases simply a feeling of familiarity when they
themselves walk that same/similar path for the first time in their
native universe.
So what about a huge multiverse ending
event that was of apocalyptic proportions, would that be noticeable?
Would we ever have even the slightest idea that it had happened at
all?
Well that would be entirely dependent
on the type of apocalypse...
Instantaneous vaporisation of Earth and
all it's inhabitants – unlikely, even if the universe was
drastically out of sync an instantaneous destruction on this scale
would presumably be over before we even noticed it began so it's
memory would be non-existent and therefore non-transferable.
Slow fire and brimstone, lightning
storms, fireballs or meteors falling from the sky, hell even good old
zombie apocalypse – probably, memories of this type would surely be
existent in at least some if not all people as people would die at
different times as would the multiverse they inhabit personally.
So what can we take from this analysis
of apocalypse's and multiverse theory... well unless anyone reports
disturbing memories or moments of Deja Vu... I think we can safely
assume our multiverse counterparts were instantaneously vaporised and
felt no pain!
Of course we'll never know for sure and
this is all just the vaguely scientific rambling of someone with
absolutely no professional training in the field of physics...but hopefully it entertained you if
nothing else, so until next time - If the apocalypse comes, beep me
