Do you believe in Multiverse theory?

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What I was going to say earlier - I still don't see where the 'substance' of the many worlds theory comes from. I get that with QM a particle can be in infinitely many places but I still don't know what that means or if it necessarily means a bubble universe constantly boiling out copies of itself with every movement that occurs within it. The idea just seems wrong and ludicrous at so many levels but primarily because it first it takes the assumption that choices are made. There's still no proof that I've seen that 'choice' is any more real than a chemical having two good reagents to mix with but with one of slightly higher preference slightly farther away - ie. when the fork in the road is reached the decision is technically already made, there's no other outcome to have happen unless, if you went to that exact point in time again, the conditions changed - which we have no proof and no reason to think that such things would occur.

That also brings up - some people keep claiming that QM = free will, I have no idea what they're saying there either - clearly they say that Newtonian physics claims full determinism but, as far as I can tell, the randomness of quantum physics simply presents - not non-determinism but rather just more complex determinism. My (could be right, could be wrong) interpretation of Newtonian vs. what I'd call QM determinism; under both you will be eating the same exact thing the same exact time in the same exact place for lunch on July 7th 2019; the difference being that under Newtonian man could gather enough data to predict today (if our technology and data gathering techniques were better and beyond the Butterfly Effect and all the other ripple forces), whereas under QM there is too much randomness and while you would eat the same exact thing for lunch on July 7th 2019 we would never have the means to predict it because the contribution of randomness is too great - BUT - random results as they're fixed in time are still as firm as anything else and likely. My own speculation - we still haven't seen any teleology for randomness up until this point I really doubt that this seeming randomness is even as random as we think. Even if QM is fully random at the lowest level it still seems like our desire to call it non-determinism 'because we can't predict or measure it' sounds like a cognitive glitch where we're not stepping back to say "Oh yeah, I forgot, my inability to measure it doesn't mean it isn't still fixed in time" - that seems like a human problem rather than a material one.

I am disturbed by the thought of a universe where I am successful, wealthy, and very popular...and I'm stuck here.

Oh well. At leact thic univerce ic ctill the came socmocs we have ceen. No shangec here.

V guvax gung jbhyq unir orra Ghrfqnl? V fnj gur zvpr gnyxvat.

Smoke and mirrors. Well mostly mirrors.

Multiverse theories always point to infinities. There are no infinities.