What's with all the useless universes?

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Well what would their purpose likely be?
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To give us something to ponder and let us know that we don’t know everything.

Actually, we’re probably comprised of some elements or energies of those universes on specific (unknown to humanity) levels.

Heck, maybe those universes contribute a mechanism to our “mind” and cognitive processes in our mature brain and that’s why we still haven’t figured out how the mind works.
 
Cats are smarter than dogs. Dogs have human owners. Cats have human staff.
 
Kaliaa said:
It will not be possible to access other universes if they exist. We couldn’t send anything there nor could anything from another universe enter ours.
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I’m filing this in the same drawer as the old children’s science book I had that said, “There is no way to get to the Moon.”
 
Um… the Moon is in our universe and in our solar system. It’s quite close to us given the distances between objects of any size in our galaxy. 🙂 That is a huge difference.

Some people do speculate we’ll never get out of our galaxy which is approximately 100,000 light years in diameter much less to Andromeda, for example, which we are going collide with in a few billion years. It’s the closest galaxy to our own.

Andromeda-Milky Way collision

The YouTube linked above is only 12 minutes long and rather interesting.

There are all kinds of things to learn about God’s creation within our own universe. 🙂
 
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It just seems like everything is eating or being eaten by something else, including stars. So how can something be useless if it’s somebody’s breakfast?
 
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lol Ah the joy of black holes. Like giant pac mans they gobble up everything around them. It’s a smorgasbord. hehe
 
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Kaliaa said:
Um… the Moon is in our universe and in our solar system. It’s quite close to us given the distances between objects of any size in our galaxy. 🙂 That is a huge difference.
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And one day other galaxies might be “quite close to us” when technology develops. And from there, other universes.

It all depends on how long God allows us to persist on this planet and whether we continue to develop our technology, or experience some disaster that sets us back thousands of years.

No one ever gets anywhere by just assuming it’s impossible.
 
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There was a time when folks thought it was impossible to travel around the world. They thought the earth was flat, and we would fall off its edges. Until we learned otherwise.

Nothing’s impossible. We just haven’t gotten there, yet.
 
Scientists don’t ever assume something is impossible at least the honest ones. That’s also why there are so many theories and very few laws. There have been many scientists who have been wrong over the years. Certainly my reading on the science involving the possibility of multiverses informs the things I say. What intrigues me more than actually there being a multiverse is what that tells us about God. "Eye has not seen… " etc. 🙂 We humans are capable of thinking of all kinds of things. Everything we read or watch of science fiction. If it were all true, it’s still nothing compared to what God has for us in the future.

When I think about all this “stuff” it just gives me more reasons to give God all the glory for this magnificent creation of His and to think that perhaps some day we’ll explore from Heaven rather than Earth. Travel would be so much simpler and we’ll be a lot smarter. After all we know there is going to be a new heavens and a new earth and I really doubt that He made all of this to just throw it away once He’s come back for us. 🙂

God has place limits upon us we just don’t know what they all are. So yes, some things are impossible for us. Does that mean we should just stop looking? No.
 
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Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is scheduled to collide with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy at some point in the future, creating a new galaxy.
 
bclustr9 said:
Why did God create all the seemingly useless universes?
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By definition there is just one universe, because the world universe indicates all that has contingent existence. The so-called “other universes”, if they exist at all (which is unproven due to a total lack of evidence), are just different, inaccessible regions within the one universe.

Assuming for the sake of argument that they exist, how do you that they’re useless?
 
I do not think there are other universes, it only makes sense that there is only one, which we know is finite.

Which other universes are you referring to ?
 
The theme of what is and is not worthwhile reminds me of this passage from A Christmas Carol:

“Spirit,” said Scrooge, with an interest he had never felt before, “tell me if Tiny Tim will live.”

“I see a vacant seat,” replied the Ghost, “in the poor chimney-corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.”

“No, no,” said Scrooge. “Oh, no, kind Spirit! say he will be spared.”

“If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, none other of my race,” returned the Ghost, “will find him here. What then? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”

Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief.

“Man,” said the Ghost, “if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man’s child. Oh God! to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!”

Who are we to pronounce that the universe has too much glory for use? Surely it can’t!
 
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