Category: Universe Surfing

Examples and ideas around how to surf different universes

20200212W Day 43: Universes Colliding as Coronavirus Daily Cases Increase 10x

This post is delayed a day. Yesterday I flew to Austin from Santa Cruz. It reminded me of the trips I would make back and forth six years ago. I remembered how I would often feel in a different universe when I was in one place versus the other. This trip has given me a similar feeling. I’m now in a universe where reported worldwide Coronavirus daily cases are up 10x over the day before. Chinese authorities announced they were changing the way in which they determine whether someone is infected by the novel coronavirus. Now, instead of needed to be tested, the doctor can make a determination themselves based on a diagnosis.

In this new universe, instead of the daily cases in China going down, it is now uncertain whether they are going down or going up due to having only one day of reporting using the new method.

20200211T Day 42: Surfing to a Universe where I analyze viral genomes

As an experiment, I’m going to try surfing to a universe where I analyze viral genomes. I had an early interest in the novel coronavirus outbreak over a month ago.  I felt myself moving close to universes where there was a coronavirus pandemic in 2020 Day 17: Wuhan Coronavirus infections in Thailand and Japan in which I wrote:

This morning I thought it would be interesting to use this blog as a way to experiment with quantum feeling parallel worlds. My hypothesis is that parallel worlds can be sensed, and that the feeling of sensing a parallel world is correlated with the feeling of a synchronicity, and furthermore that the synchronicity is related to an event that ties the parallel worlds together. For example, eight days ago I sensed a parallel world in which the Wuhan Coronavirus was a bigger event than it was in this world.

There’s not currently a pandemic in the strictest sense of the word, with the only country experiencing an outbreak thus far being China (ignoring the Diamond Princess cruise ship that recently had a doubling of cases to 135). The novel coronavirus has been provisionally named 2019-nCoV. A new name, SARS-CoV-2, has been proposed by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. The disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 has been named by the WHO as COVID-19.

In the universes where I analyze viral genomes, I am almost certainly analyzing SARS-CoV-2. I’m curious where this universe surfing will lead …

20200208S Day 39: Using Full Moon Nights to Wormhole to Far Away Universes

I started writing daily blog posts on this wordpress blog at the beginning of the year 2020. I imagine that in many nearby parallel universes, I also started writing daily blog posts on this date as it is customary to have new year’s resolutions to mark the beginning of the Julian calendar. However, there are many other calendars in use across the world. It’s possible for me to surf to universes where the Julian calendar is not the chosen calendar of the West, or even universes where it doesn’t exist.

Imagine a world in which the moon phases and the seasons mark the passing of time. This world is know to be in our past and is also almost certainly in our possible futures. On the night of a full moon, it is possible to communicate with your parallel self across all the universes in which your parallel self is communicating back. While this is a somewhat arbitrary time to choose to communicate, it’s more likely than not that it would be a special time to communicate. Full moon ceremonies and gatherings are popular in the classical universe we experience and it takes only a small leap of faith to know that full moon nights are a sacred time across the multiverse.

So, I plan to use the remainder of the night before I sleep to meditate and attempt to communicate with my parallel self. I also plan to imagine a new habit I want to start for the next moon cycle – specifically a habit that I might have in a far, far away universe where there is no Julian calendar to guide me.

20200206h Day 37: NPR Interview with David Quammen Notes Mapped to the Multiverse

Some points to consider from the NPR interview on the novel coronavirus with science write David Quammen from a couple days ago:

  1. 2019-nCoV case fatality rate of (currently) 2% is in the range that should be taken seriously.
  2. The limited number of masks should be reserved for those who are sick and health care workers. They are not that effective in protecting healthy people.
  3. The chances are there – how big we don’t know – that a pandemic will one day infect and kill a large percentage of the world population.

Of these points, all involve probabilities. Nearby universes surround us with slight changes in probability. Farther away universes have larger changes in probability. So, a nearby universe would be one where the 2019-nCoV case fatality rate is 3% instead of 2% and a farther away one would be where it is 20% instead of 2%. The effectiveness of people wearing masks can also be similar or different in near and far universes, respectively. And the chance a pandemic will one day infect and kill a large percentage of the world population can also be used to order universes along a continuum. Each of these three measures can be thought of as a different dimension in the parallel universe space. As an example, considering only these three measures, one could visualize a 3-D space of universes by assigning number 1 to the X-axis, number 2 to the Y-axis, and number 3 to the Z-axis.

2020 Day 31 Addendum 1: The washer looks damaged

I just posted my Day 31 post 2020 Day 31: Delivering a washing machine through the multiverse with an ending comment:

From what I know about universe surfing and parallel universe interference, I suspect that there are more interesting universe collisions to come around this series of events.

I just heard from my brother, relaying a quote from the delivery guy:

The washer looks damaged

More universe surfing to come …