This is a qoute from the HowStuffWorks website about Many Worlds Thoery:

"This idea is supported by the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. Posed by the Danish physicist Niels Bohr, this interpretation says that all quantum particles don't exist in one state or the other, but in all of its possible states at once. The sum total of possible states of a quantum object is called its wave function. The state of an object existing in all of its possible states at once is called its superposition...To Everett, measuring a quantum object does not force it into one comprehensible state or another. Instead, a measurement taken of a quantum object causes an actual split in the universe. The universe is literally duplicated, splitting into one universe for each possible outcome from the measurement. For example, say an object's wave function is both a particle and a wave. When a physicist measures the particle, there are two possible outcomes: It will either be measured as a particle or a wave. This distinction makes Everett's Many-Worlds theory a competitor of the Copenhagen interpretation as an explanation for quantum mechanics." Link: http://science.howstuffworks.com/parallel-universe1.htm

This is one of the explanations for how parallel universes form. I think quantum objects kinda sounds like what this thread is about, though the whole parallel universe theory to me sounds like they don't really have any basis on facts. I watched this program about this (I think on the History channel) and they were trying to say that in parallel universes there is a world identical as ours and in this world each person has an identical self, only that when you raise your right arm your parallel self raises their left arm. Just think about the movie "The One" with Jet Li in it and that is what they are describing. This means that everything is duplicated for an eternity and within each parallel universe. Now I have virtully no knowlege of science and I just think its well... a dubious theory. I'm all for science and understanding the world around me, but I don't think that it is a very good theory. I am a Christian, so maybe that has something do with my view.

There is that 3000 year old artifact that some archeologist found a month or two ago that he believed had hebrew writing on it. This supports that the Jewish kingdom around the time of King David was literate and could have actually written all of the books in the Bible before the 200 B.C. mark, like it was believed by most historians. This means that many of the stories were being told as they happend and not just inspired folklore and thrown together in 200 B.C. I'm not sure if they proved it yet. I don't think that just because the Jewish people thought of some of those Sumarian stories in a different way, it effects the religion. Abraham was a Sumarian, except that he believed he found the true Almighty God. The stories took the shape to relate to Abraham's God how Abraham's people saw them. Myths are different than just fiction in a religious sense, because they have deeper symbolical meanings (like all fiction I guess, but when it is rooted within religion it gives guidlines for the sacred, specifically for that religion.) I'm probably not making much sense... And the comment about no books written by women, there is definitly many instances where women are related as equal or even better than men. I am not trying to fight about it, I just wanted to mention that in the discussion, because there most definitly was sex discrimination in that time.

EDIT: I forgot to mention the law written by the Sumarian Hamarabi is closly related to Mose's laws. The laws that came from Moses have differences ofcoarse, and these differences are tailored to this Monotheistic religion, and upholds the notions that they felt are important to their (and my) God. I was trying to say something like that ^ there.

I have a final in my statistics class and I have a question about my study guide. Here is the actual problem:

In the initial test of the Salk vaccine for polio, 400,000 children were selected and divided into two groups of 200,000. One group was vaccinated with the Salk vaccine while the second group was vaccinated with a placebo. of those vaccinated with the Salk vaccine, 33 later developed polio. Of those receiving the placebo, 115 later developed polio. TEst the claim that the Salk vaccine is effective in lowering the polio rate. Use (fish looking thing) = 0.01.

I have figuered out what most of the formula is but I am lost at the degree of freedom part. My teacher in trying to prove H1 = mean less than 10 put the t-distribution as part of the problem, which I wrote down so I can just plug in the answers, but I think I didn't get everything off the board becuase he showed that there are two different types of t-distributions that must be found in this problem. For H1 he put t-comp is less than t-tab with two different numbers, which I figure comp means compute in calculater? and tab means the inside tab of the book with the Z-scores? Can anybody help me with the simplest answer possible?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgqvenOndkI that is just a video on Eminence if anyone wanted to see who made the music for a few games. I agree with what was said about needing good music when having to spend so much time in videogames. Though I think there are some great compositions still being made for movies, it is almost required by standards. Games are not really that differenet anymore, actually, they really are the same. Music helps to bring the emotion to the story of games just like movies.

BTW, can anyone see my signature picture, jw because I can't?

Team ICO's new game.

Given their track record; ICO taking four years to develop, Shadow taking four years to develop after being started right after ICO and this new game being started right after Shadow... leads me to predict that this game will be released sometime in 2009.

I have given up on being patient and am demanding that Ueda release *something* of what he is working on.
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Ueda was just on Toro Station and said the annoucement will be "very soon." I got my hopes up when I found out he was going to be on. Was it four or five years, I've read in many articles that it was 5. Ico came out in 2001, but was it early 2001? SotC came out in 2005, so idk. We know there is the one screenshot at the same time that they were looking for designers this past January. We will probably definitly hear about it in 2009, but I don't understand game designing enough to know if it is going to come out then.