The one where my Mum was delayed by 30 seconds the day she died in a car crash 25+ years ago.
Im sorry to read that. Hope things are not too bad.
The universe where my comment gets upvoted on this thread
You’re there!
Hang on...is this also the universe where the lizard people are in charge?
Depends on how reliable you think my Uncle Charlie is.
He seems like a hoopy frood.
That one that deviated from ours shortly after the big bang with the planet sorta like Earth but with a later stage sun and 16 other planets in the system. Specifically the one with higher oxygen content than ours, yellow tree-like plants, and where the main intelligent species looks sorta like 7 legged dogs and sound like they're laughing when they speak.
The one where humans were smart enough not to destroy their own planet.
That would mean less greed as greed let to cheaper options to fuel factories and power cars., in exchange for more profit. However greed is our human nature (sadly). So someone else would have made a point to destroy the environment if it would solely benefit them.
Alas, greed is bred (past sence of breding) into the western societies and then 'exported' from Europe via the US as base for economics to all other areas of the globe. I get the feeling it was 'enhanced' by the middle-eastern trinity of religions, Jewism, Catholism and Muslism (correct spelling?) which places humans above anture instead of smack in the middle of it and totally depending on it.
I don't know but I hope it's one that has an actual map of the multiverse
It’s a little depressing to say, but the one where I’m truly and completely happy. I want to see that or at least get to see how to achieve it
There is no such thing as truly and completely happy. Happiness is not a state of existence.
Yeah in this universe maybe, but I don’t see why it couldn’t be possible in another universe
Because even if you achieve happiness there will be something that will bother you. It is in our human nature to look more at the bad sides than the good sides.
Money: a billionaire stills has problems avoiding taxes and losing all assets.
Early-pension: people need a purpose to do something, otherwise you will get bored.
One happy family: outside influences (boyfriend/girlfriend) can negatively influence you.
However it's not all bad, we just have to focus less on the negative sides and look to what we can achieve.
As a great though experiment start to write to yourself from there and then take on the personality of that person and respond.
What would they say to you? Obviously things go wrong in every universe so how does that alternate universe you mentally frame issues. What decisions do they make when faced with choice.
( trying this with bard led me to being a cyborg this made me like AI more and trust it less)
One where everything is alright
I do assume that a (real, unlike places we come up with here) place which had no problems or was perfect could not exist.
Plus - in who's point of view would it be perfect?
One where I was born a girl.
To be honest, I'd be genuinely curious if they went through their own struggles with expectations, especially ones tied to apparent gender identity. Hell, do they even identify the same way I do? What ripples throughout my entire sense of self could have been caused just by something so seemingly simple?
Would we be even remotely alike?
Probably have consequences on my psyche, but meh. Waking up each day is, too.
Ooooh, I like this idea! I would also be curious - would be awesome to check this out!
Tbh, the star trek TNG universe probably. Go see a post scarcity society, a world where humanity really made it, then go find a job on a starship for a while
Would be great to see a version of Earth where humanity wasn't snared by religion.
I would love to see a world where ww1 (and thus in follow up ww2) would not have happened. So many things in our daily lives have been influenced by the world wars.
Id like to imagine Germany would've become a superstate before it happened in our lifetime. Focusing on industrialization and cooperation with other nations around it to improve the products at the time.
I think industrialized warfare was inevitable.
Fair but so many things we have today come from those 2 wars. So without them the world would be really different.
I agree with that too. I'm just saying if Franz hadn't been assassinated, something else would have set someone else off to start an industrial war.
The one where my mom never had cancer.
In that universe, she’s immortal
One where power and greed don't effect people nearly as strongly as they do here.
The one where Ronald Reagan didn't win the presidential election
an universe with anthro animal people would be nice...
and humans as animals?
it wouldn't be that much of an alternative universe tho 😄
Found the furry!
And ngl, may I join?
the more the merrier uwu
if you can make yourself useful in a starship, even better
My background is quite technical, and I think I can wrap my head around piloting, so I think I can
some scifi universe where they hand out anti aging perfect health pills like tic tacs. That would probably be a pretty interesting place to check out for some time. If it's an innate ability to travel and I don't have to worry about getting stuck in a universe, I'd probably want to check out some questions like "what if the Roman empire collapsed way earlier?" or "what if someone killed Hitler as a child?" or "what if religion didn't have such an appeal to people?" (though I suspect I'd be going back to the first universe with the last question).
In the past religion was key to keep the population together under a single purpose. Nowadays that's not needed anymore, but back then the church had a lot of control. Without religion bonding the people the Norms and values would be different than what they are now. However we can't exactly speculate what would've happen since our society was build around religion.
And what would have been an alternative purpose, if it wasn't religion 🤔
Skip the pill, pick one where you can transfer you consciousness to robots that look perfectly human, but are stronger and faster and all that. You could skydive without a parachute and swap bots if you took damage.
Eh, I don't know, I'm not yet convinced mind uploading is philosophically unproblematic. I'd rather get as much use as possible out of the ol' meat mecha before considering that.
To a universe where a version of me that's close to who I currently am has travelled to all the universes I want to explore and made a top 10 list of universes to visit first
fuck that's so smart
Nah, I wanna be the one making the list, I wanna see em all
My first stop would be the one where the world came together to tackle greenhouse gases with the same urgency we handled CFCs and the hole in the ozone layer. Not a huge difference but hopefully a big improvement.
I would also like to see what happened in the one we did not handle the CFCs and the ozone layer disappeared, just so I could feel like we aren't complete fuckups in our reality.
I'd probably start with a table of contents universe to see what the various options are. Then I'd look for ones with interesting pathogens, like de-aging viruses, and parasites like in that one episode of Futurama (I just wouldn't be worried if someone loved me because of who the parasites made me into).
Then I'd go visit versions of universes around the present time after I had made various changes in the past to see how it impacted things. The beauty of the multiverse is that I wouldn't even have to ever do those changes in the first place, another version of me would have taken care of it, so I could just jump to the results. Then I could also check out the ones where I failed but still had an impact, they would probably be interesting.
I'd crash Stephen Hawking's time traveler party. I'd be crashing it because I'm not really a time traveler, though I suspect he wouldn't be disappointed.
I'd try to satisfy my curiosity about things with similar laws of physics before checking out more different ones because I suspect it might be difficult to find your way back. There's just so many variables that could change from universe up universe, and each one of those could be its own dimension you could travel along. It would be so easy to get lost, plus there's a good chance I wouldn't be capable of existing in an infinite number of them and would cease the moment I tried going to one of those.
I mean, technically you would be a time Traveller if you showed up at his party, since it's already happened
It's possible that in the multiverse, every moment of this current universe is happening simultaneously. So I wouldn't be traveling to our past, but another version of us' present, which just looks like our past. I could go there and cause that universe to believe time travel has been proven and then return to this one and nothing would be different.
Though I will admit that traveling in such a way does stretch the definitions to the point where "is it time travel?" becomes meaningless.
I would visit ones where I never left different exes and see how things were going. I think that a few of them would likely be going well.
For me, the one where nudism is the common thing and there are specific areas for clothed people.
Bro 😂
Gimp suits are kinky there, too, but for different reasons.
The one where I don’t exist anymore. Need to know a few things…
Bro let me tell you this as a stranger. You will be missed. Even if you think you had no influence over people's lives, you have. And that is not necessarily a bad thing. For one you influenced me into writing this message to you.
I hope you are healthy and look forward to the unknown future that might bring you more to enjoy.
Even if you think you had no influence over people’s lives, you have
That's kind of what I need to know. Like It's a Wonderful Life...
The one where the big bang didn't happen.
Any where I'm happier in life.
The one where you can change your body and appearance whenever you feel like it, I need some flexibility in my life :)
I think it would be hilarious if everyone could do it. Like everyone would be a copy of someone.
The one without entropy
The one where the atmosphere of planets are connected together, because they sit so close to each other
This one
I'd like to check out
a world similar to our size but that has only one country/kingdom/etc
a world that never had wars/always lived in peace
a world that had teleportation unlocked and where it would be as easy to use as walking
a world that had invented an item that lets you "store" and "read" feelings (you could read other's feelings too)
(golden compass) a world where humans/all intelligent species would have their souls as creatures that followed them in life
one where everything is exactly the same except that the land where Belgium would be is evenly distributed among France, Germany, and the Netherlands.
The one where Reagan never became president
I see people been watching that new Invincible episode.
I watched it after asking this question. To be fair, the multiverse has been a popular theme in recent media.
It's threaded with spiraling time threads, like symphonic Christmas lights dancing in an ethereal breeze. Touch one of these time threads, and millenias worth of physics explodes along my skin. You can hear the whispered susurrations of cosmic eddies trembling thru the universe, the songs of stars. It is bright like sherbert, cold and warm on the flesh, and every fiber of my being is rapturously tesselated.
One where history has been altered in somd big massive way wherever that be
no moon landing
heroshima and nagasaki not being blown to pieces
one of the many coldwar close calls that has happened during history not being a cold War close call but instead a bbq so for an example Lt. Colonel Stanislav Petrov not going on his better judgement and reporting the false weather balloons to > higher soviet command or prehaps > B-59 Submarine if if wasn't for one of those senior offices not putting in his key history as we know it would have been altered for the worse
The one in which there are no multiverses.
You can't access that one, you're stuck in our multiverse
What if I put a chick in it and make her gay?
A lesbian will find a way to merge it into our multiverse
Does the set of all sets contain itself situation huh?
One where the laws of physics are similar/the same.
the one where there's no inverse square law
I also wish to visit a universe that would instantly kill me.
Why is that specifically?
Hard to say. It's currently impossible to comprehend.
The one where my Mum was delayed by 30 seconds the day she died in a car crash 25+ years ago.
Im sorry to read that. Hope things are not too bad.
The universe where my comment gets upvoted on this thread
You’re there!
Hang on...is this also the universe where the lizard people are in charge?
Depends on how reliable you think my Uncle Charlie is.
He seems like a hoopy frood.
That one that deviated from ours shortly after the big bang with the planet sorta like Earth but with a later stage sun and 16 other planets in the system. Specifically the one with higher oxygen content than ours, yellow tree-like plants, and where the main intelligent species looks sorta like 7 legged dogs and sound like they're laughing when they speak.
The one where humans were smart enough not to destroy their own planet.
That would mean less greed as greed let to cheaper options to fuel factories and power cars., in exchange for more profit. However greed is our human nature (sadly). So someone else would have made a point to destroy the environment if it would solely benefit them.
Alas, greed is bred (past sence of breding) into the western societies and then 'exported' from Europe via the US as base for economics to all other areas of the globe. I get the feeling it was 'enhanced' by the middle-eastern trinity of religions, Jewism, Catholism and Muslism (correct spelling?) which places humans above anture instead of smack in the middle of it and totally depending on it.
I don't know but I hope it's one that has an actual map of the multiverse
It’s a little depressing to say, but the one where I’m truly and completely happy. I want to see that or at least get to see how to achieve it
There is no such thing as truly and completely happy. Happiness is not a state of existence.
Yeah in this universe maybe, but I don’t see why it couldn’t be possible in another universe
Because even if you achieve happiness there will be something that will bother you. It is in our human nature to look more at the bad sides than the good sides.
Money: a billionaire stills has problems avoiding taxes and losing all assets.
Early-pension: people need a purpose to do something, otherwise you will get bored.
One happy family: outside influences (boyfriend/girlfriend) can negatively influence you.
However it's not all bad, we just have to focus less on the negative sides and look to what we can achieve.
As a great though experiment start to write to yourself from there and then take on the personality of that person and respond.
What would they say to you? Obviously things go wrong in every universe so how does that alternate universe you mentally frame issues. What decisions do they make when faced with choice.
( trying this with bard led me to being a cyborg this made me like AI more and trust it less)
One where everything is alright
I do assume that a (real, unlike places we come up with here) place which had no problems or was perfect could not exist.
Plus - in who's point of view would it be perfect?
One where I was born a girl.
To be honest, I'd be genuinely curious if they went through their own struggles with expectations, especially ones tied to apparent gender identity. Hell, do they even identify the same way I do? What ripples throughout my entire sense of self could have been caused just by something so seemingly simple?
Would we be even remotely alike?
Probably have consequences on my psyche, but meh. Waking up each day is, too.
Ooooh, I like this idea! I would also be curious - would be awesome to check this out!
Tbh, the star trek TNG universe probably. Go see a post scarcity society, a world where humanity really made it, then go find a job on a starship for a while
Would be great to see a version of Earth where humanity wasn't snared by religion.
I would love to see a world where ww1 (and thus in follow up ww2) would not have happened. So many things in our daily lives have been influenced by the world wars.
Id like to imagine Germany would've become a superstate before it happened in our lifetime. Focusing on industrialization and cooperation with other nations around it to improve the products at the time.
I think industrialized warfare was inevitable.
Fair but so many things we have today come from those 2 wars. So without them the world would be really different.
I agree with that too. I'm just saying if Franz hadn't been assassinated, something else would have set someone else off to start an industrial war.
The one where my mom never had cancer.
In that universe, she’s immortal
One where power and greed don't effect people nearly as strongly as they do here.
The one where Ronald Reagan didn't win the presidential election
an universe with anthro animal people would be nice...
and humans as animals?
it wouldn't be that much of an alternative universe tho 😄
Found the furry!
And ngl, may I join?
the more the merrier uwu
if you can make yourself useful in a starship, even better
My background is quite technical, and I think I can wrap my head around piloting, so I think I can
some scifi universe where they hand out anti aging perfect health pills like tic tacs. That would probably be a pretty interesting place to check out for some time. If it's an innate ability to travel and I don't have to worry about getting stuck in a universe, I'd probably want to check out some questions like "what if the Roman empire collapsed way earlier?" or "what if someone killed Hitler as a child?" or "what if religion didn't have such an appeal to people?" (though I suspect I'd be going back to the first universe with the last question).
In the past religion was key to keep the population together under a single purpose. Nowadays that's not needed anymore, but back then the church had a lot of control. Without religion bonding the people the Norms and values would be different than what they are now. However we can't exactly speculate what would've happen since our society was build around religion.
And what would have been an alternative purpose, if it wasn't religion 🤔
Skip the pill, pick one where you can transfer you consciousness to robots that look perfectly human, but are stronger and faster and all that. You could skydive without a parachute and swap bots if you took damage.
Eh, I don't know, I'm not yet convinced mind uploading is philosophically unproblematic. I'd rather get as much use as possible out of the ol' meat mecha before considering that.
To a universe where a version of me that's close to who I currently am has travelled to all the universes I want to explore and made a top 10 list of universes to visit first
fuck that's so smart
Nah, I wanna be the one making the list, I wanna see em all
My first stop would be the one where the world came together to tackle greenhouse gases with the same urgency we handled CFCs and the hole in the ozone layer. Not a huge difference but hopefully a big improvement.
I would also like to see what happened in the one we did not handle the CFCs and the ozone layer disappeared, just so I could feel like we aren't complete fuckups in our reality.
I'd probably start with a table of contents universe to see what the various options are. Then I'd look for ones with interesting pathogens, like de-aging viruses, and parasites like in that one episode of Futurama (I just wouldn't be worried if someone loved me because of who the parasites made me into).
Then I'd go visit versions of universes around the present time after I had made various changes in the past to see how it impacted things. The beauty of the multiverse is that I wouldn't even have to ever do those changes in the first place, another version of me would have taken care of it, so I could just jump to the results. Then I could also check out the ones where I failed but still had an impact, they would probably be interesting.
I'd crash Stephen Hawking's time traveler party. I'd be crashing it because I'm not really a time traveler, though I suspect he wouldn't be disappointed.
I'd try to satisfy my curiosity about things with similar laws of physics before checking out more different ones because I suspect it might be difficult to find your way back. There's just so many variables that could change from universe up universe, and each one of those could be its own dimension you could travel along. It would be so easy to get lost, plus there's a good chance I wouldn't be capable of existing in an infinite number of them and would cease the moment I tried going to one of those.
I mean, technically you would be a time Traveller if you showed up at his party, since it's already happened
It's possible that in the multiverse, every moment of this current universe is happening simultaneously. So I wouldn't be traveling to our past, but another version of us' present, which just looks like our past. I could go there and cause that universe to believe time travel has been proven and then return to this one and nothing would be different.
Though I will admit that traveling in such a way does stretch the definitions to the point where "is it time travel?" becomes meaningless.
I would visit ones where I never left different exes and see how things were going. I think that a few of them would likely be going well.
For me, the one where nudism is the common thing and there are specific areas for clothed people.
Bro 😂
Gimp suits are kinky there, too, but for different reasons.
The one where I don’t exist anymore. Need to know a few things…
Bro let me tell you this as a stranger. You will be missed. Even if you think you had no influence over people's lives, you have. And that is not necessarily a bad thing. For one you influenced me into writing this message to you.
I hope you are healthy and look forward to the unknown future that might bring you more to enjoy.
That's kind of what I need to know. Like It's a Wonderful Life...
The one where the big bang didn't happen.
Any where I'm happier in life.
The one where you can change your body and appearance whenever you feel like it, I need some flexibility in my life :)
I think it would be hilarious if everyone could do it. Like everyone would be a copy of someone.
The one without entropy
The one where the atmosphere of planets are connected together, because they sit so close to each other
This one
I'd like to check out
one where everything is exactly the same except that the land where Belgium would be is evenly distributed among France, Germany, and the Netherlands.
The one where Reagan never became president
I see people been watching that new Invincible episode.
I watched it after asking this question. To be fair, the multiverse has been a popular theme in recent media.
It's threaded with spiraling time threads, like symphonic Christmas lights dancing in an ethereal breeze. Touch one of these time threads, and millenias worth of physics explodes along my skin. You can hear the whispered susurrations of cosmic eddies trembling thru the universe, the songs of stars. It is bright like sherbert, cold and warm on the flesh, and every fiber of my being is rapturously tesselated.
One where history has been altered in somd big massive way wherever that be
no moon landing
heroshima and nagasaki not being blown to pieces
one of the many coldwar close calls that has happened during history not being a cold War close call but instead a bbq so for an example Lt. Colonel Stanislav Petrov not going on his better judgement and reporting the false weather balloons to > higher soviet command or prehaps > B-59 Submarine if if wasn't for one of those senior offices not putting in his key history as we know it would have been altered for the worse
The one in which there are no multiverses.
You can't access that one, you're stuck in our multiverse
What if I put a chick in it and make her gay?
A lesbian will find a way to merge it into our multiverse
Does the set of all sets contain itself situation huh?
One where the laws of physics are similar/the same.
the one where there's no inverse square law
I also wish to visit a universe that would instantly kill me.
Why is that specifically?
Hard to say. It's currently impossible to comprehend.