In The Multiverse All Novels Are True

So i was reading the arts books etc section of that paper and saw a review of Andrew Crumey's new book Sputnick Caledonia. I have never ead any of his stuff, but i remember thinking htey sounded awesome a year or two ago. His most recent won the Northern Rock foundation writers award. Which is quite cool.

Crumey is has a PHD in physics and is generally a bit of a dude. The person interviewing him, an author who's name i have forgotten suggested that if the other worlds hypothesis is correct, then all novels are true.

An Open Multiverse according to Wikipedia:

There are an infinite number of regions of space the same size as our observable universe -- an infinite number of observable universes, that is. This infinite set (which must contain, among other things, an infinite number of identical copies of you, the nearest of which is about 10^10^29 meters away, and an equally infinite number of not-quite-identical copies) comprises the level-I multiverse.

This is not robust physics, it is closer to religion. It is not scientific in that it cannot be disproved and it fails to answer any questions. But it's a really cool idea. It's is reasuring to think that every time you fail at something you suceed in a different universe. However. It is at odds with something i have been trying to think about for a few months. It is easiest to explain this by starting very small:

First an assumption that i make: Everything is made up of atoms. There is nothing more than the physical world. No god, soul, spirt or ghosts only atoms.

The behaviour of these atoms is regular. It is goverened by the interactions of the constituent parts, the behavior of electrons, protons and neutrons. The fact that we do not understand the behaviour of these perticles does not mean they do not work in a regular way, simply that we do not understand it. As Einstein said "God doesnt play dice" there is no chance in this system everything is regular (Pedantic note: Dice dont work by chance anyway).

Our minds, bodies and conciousness is a result of atoms. If atoms behave in a regular fashion and we are concious because of atoms the rules that govern atoms must govern our conciousness. Every decision we make is governed by this, the interaction of trillions of atoms is phenomonally complex, perhaps too complex for humans to ever comprehend. However it follows i think that from the very moment of the big bang i was going to exist. There was no doubt as the path of every particle is ultimatley predictable. Free will exists granted but it is a product of this regular movement of particles.

If any creature could understand this action of atoms, and were to have a full inventory of all the atoms in existance at one single nano second of existence they could map forward and backwards through history.

This is a poweful idea, and one i am not very comfortable with. I have yet to see anyone prove it wrong, except by saying "there must be something else", in my mind there isn't of course if you believe in god or souls or spirits feel free to discount my whole argument as meaningless.

A multiverse cannot exist if there are no other possibilities, if the current state of the world is the only possible world all of the multiverses would be the same. Unless they started differently. Though i have no idea how to deal with starting. Except to suggest they never did, "the big bounce" theory suggests the universe occelates between expension and contraction over a very very very very very long period. Infinty is however too much of a headfuck to try and deal with today.

but still "In The Multiverse All Novels Are True" is a really cool idea. Imagine every character you ever read about existing somewhere in the infinitness of existence. Awesome.