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    10 months ago

    “They” don’t have any proof.

    The person most qualified to speak on this is Sir Roger Penrose, and he believes quantum wave collapse is caused by gravity, and rather than happening faster than the speed of light it’s actually reversing time and happening in the past.

    That “prunes” the multiverse leaving us with one prime timeline. So the multiverse would only exist for fractions of a second before collapsing back into one retroactively before it even existed.

    And I can only assume the writers of Loki knows about him and that’s why it sounds like I’m just explaining the MCU.

    Seriously, Penrose is basically the Einstein of this generation. He finished up a lot of Einstein’s work, and has spent the last couple decades looking into this and what consciousness actually is. If it sounds like science fiction, is because writers would take the five minutes to read what the world’s smartest physicist thinks.

    If it sounds confusing, it’s because the only thing in the universe that requires linear time in one direction is consciousness. So we only experience time like that. Everything else really doesn’t give a shit about time, especially at the quantum level.

    But yeah, a “bigger” infinite can exist than a “smaller” infinite. It’s too confusing for me to understand, but a bunch of really really smart people have been looking into it. It’s kind of the same thing. Humans are limited, and our way of expressing ideas even more so.

    Eventually we might figure out a way to explain that doesn’t break the brains of 99.99999999% of humans.

    But if you want to try and understand, there’s lots of writing on it and even a decent Netflix documentary