{"id":8345,"date":"2016-03-04T10:35:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T15:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=8345"},"modified":"2016-03-05T14:46:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T19:46:55","slug":"multiverse-observed-south-of-glasgow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=8345","title":{"rendered":"Multiverse Observed, South of Glasgow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out the multiverse does exist, just off the A76, 25 miles north of Dumfries in Scotland.  It&#8217;s called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crawickmultiverse.co.uk\/\">Crawick Multiverse<\/a> and is now open 10 am to 4 pm.  Admission is 5 pounds, but parking is free. <\/p>\n<p>For more details, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-former-mine-has-been-turned-into-a-walkable-universe\">this story<\/a>, which explains about the huge mounds, and that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s also a mound where mudstone slabs trace a spiral path up to the top that represents the multiverse. Along the way, some of the slabs are carved out to symbolise other potential universes where different physical laws apply. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The idea seems to be that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the park is a modern take on Neolithic monuments such as Stonehenge, which paid tribute to the movements of the Solar System &#8211; but this time the focus is on the latest advances in physics, such as chaos theory and the idea of parallel universes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>so while Stonehenge was designed to last forever and show that a primitive people understood about the solar system, this is going to show our descendants that 21st century humans knew about the multiverse.<\/p>\n<p>Since it is well known that the LHC is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/here-s-how-you-can-figure-out-if-you-re-living-in-a-multiverse\">our best chance of figuring out if multiverses exist<\/a>, it seems that the people at CERN have agreed to have the same person build something like this there.  This should ensure that when any future generations excavate the LHC site, they will get some idea of its purpose, and marvel at how much progress the human race made after the Neolithic era.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong>  Another <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ictp.it\/wp\/\">observation of a multiverse<\/a>, this one in Trieste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out the multiverse does exist, just off the A76, 25 miles north of Dumfries in Scotland. It&#8217;s called the Crawick Multiverse and is now open 10 am to 4 pm. Admission is 5 pounds, but parking is free. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=8345\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-multiverse-mania"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8345"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8352,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345\/revisions\/8352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}