I know I’m not unique by really enjoying this content but this is exactly what I want my videos to be at quality wise. The humor mixed with the information was beyond perfect
Prior? Oh, you mean prior to firing them all. Yeah, Post-Jack Cracked sucked fat flaps! It's nice that they're bringing back the legends. Let's hope that they're being paid what they're worth...
Strictly speaking, The Chronicles of Narnia are an early example of a multiverse, as both our universe and Narnia are explicitly shown to be just two of many worlds, connected by an in-between dimension called The Woods Between The Worlds.
@@voradorhylden3410 It's always funny to me when there's like a specific number of alternate universes. "Oh so there's an infinite number of alternate realities reflecting the infinite possibilities of creation?" "No, there's like, eleven. If you don't like Pirate Universe, too bad, that's all the Pirate Universe you get."
Quantum Leap was a multiverse show. He jumps into a forked timeline, and has to correct it before the TVA prunes it (I presume, the effects of failure were never made clear).
@@tonyanthony5105 that actually happened to me with hbomberguy when his video about OOF released. I hadn't watched his videos in a couple years and he hadn't uploaded in more than a year and I just wanted to watch his Dark Souls 2 at bloodborne videos, and when I opened his channel, it said he had uploaded 45 minutes ago. And then we ended up getting the plagiarism video shortly after. (I may have the order those videos released backwards. I'm too lazy to Google it right now) It felt like Divine Providence.
I did look it up, Michael. And you're right, I shouldn't have looked up "parallelly," because its spelling just looks wrong. My brain tells me the adverb of parallel should be "parallellily" or "parallellaly."
10:05 so different way using the word dimension. One as another universe with its own laws and one as other directions one can move around in. You can relate the two ideas with a brane-world type scenario, but they are distinct ideas. Each brane is fixed to some point in those extra directions leaving only our usual 4 for space-time. The particles and everything they make up like us being confined to that one brane. Another such universe being a different neighboring brane. Branes are the where the strings can terminate leaving just an end point. The reason for those extra dimensions is about making the theory consistent. There are other ways to do it. You need the right conformal anomaly cancelation number and 6 extra dimensions is such an example. Other reasons for this choice require even more explanation.
Okay, there's only three possibilities. Either Swaim was always much smarter than he appeared in every other video, or he somehow became much smarter over the past few years--both very unlikely-- hence, the only logical conclusion is that Swaim has swapped with a much smarter body double from an alternate universe.
Well remember, the original SWAIM was a robot, and SWAIM was just a constantly changing-occasionally recursive-acronym. But that means SOMEONE had to build the Swaimbot, perhaps this is the mad scientist responsible for that brilliant feat of engineering?!
All jokes aside though, Swain has always had that foolish genius athing about him. Everyone at cracked was obsessively obsessive. Almost like they were on... 😮
Like the one where the Sliders gang end up in a world that is basically ALL FIRE ALL THE TIME and bring a being of living fire to a different universe.
This episode has the best science so far. No notes. Swaim might not be a "real" scientist. But he is the next best thing, a youtube science communicator.
Thankyou so much for coming back, i miss after hours so much, you guys were the best while i was growing up, love you swaim you beautiful beast of a man
I wish you would have explained, that in MWI that our perception of a wave function collapse, that we become entangled with it, and now exist in a larger wave function. Also understand that these other worlds have to be possible and their language is that of probability fields, and so most other “universes” would look incredibly similar to our own.
@ if so, it’s reasonable then that there’s a reality that can destroy all other realities, so since everything is possible, it’s possible that everything is destroyed, so that nothing is possible. In other words, utter nonsense.
@ not only that, but media has conditioned you to think these realities actually exist, which MWI does not say, this is entanglement with probability fields. Conservation of energy cannot be violated, there is only one universe but the wave function has been extended whenever wave collapse is observed.
I like the idea that dark matter is just other universes interacting with ours via gravity, the subtle interactions creates huge structures like galaxies in roughly the same place(s) on the macro scale, but don't have enough effect for us to see it on our scale.
Physicists have latched on to the idea that the extra dimensions are small and curled up so that we can't interact with them (like the dimension of circumference on a wire that could be significant for something small enough but not for us at our normal size) but my thought is that maybe our three spatial dimensions are the small ones and time and other spatial dimensions are the big ones. Like, we're a bug who can walk around and around the wire but don't have any way to access the length of the wire, or can only access it by limited spiraling around and around the circumference at an angle so that we never return to the same spot (in this analogy, the length of the wire is our time dimension). Or one of my favorites from _A Wrinkle In Time_ a fish in a river might have three dimensions of travel within the water but have to travel the long way around the various meanders, but no access at all to the world above the surface where they could cut across the narrow spits of land that separate two points because the river folds in on itself.
That always made sense to me. Like, relatively speaking, all realities are in the nooks and crannies of other realities. Perhaps certain supernatural phenomena are when different planes bleed into each other.
I like "brane collision theory" as an explanation for quantum phenomena. Two universes with slightly different sets of physical laws collide, which causes both universes to "reset" into one universe that obeys both sets of rules put together. If true, this could take Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems to a crazy place where the universal laws themselves contain contradictions and/or unprovable facts.
@@marc21256 I have no idea. But we're also bumping up against instrument sensitivity limits trying to prove that the other dimensions are small in ours. So, we have problems either direction.
In fairness, Everything Everywhere All At Once explained that all the universes being experienced by the main character are neighbors where the protagonist lived a similar life, because larger jumps cause more damage to the participant. Even the sillier universes still at least have a person with a similar look, name, etc., because that's how the in-universe tech works.
If you think of the multiverse as branches, it makes sense that nearby universes would be similar as they split more recently. Energy to travel to neighboring universes is a lot less than it would take to go somewhere radically different from our own.
Brought up the Dark Tower, yes; but he barely mentioned that it was a series and used clips taken from that travesty of a film. Lol. But does it really give you hope about literacy when they mention The Dark Tower? Why not when someone mentions reading the news? Or a text book? Or an email or text? Or is it really that the Dark Tower tickles your pickle, and you just didn't want to seem weird, so you had to qualify your statement?
@@bufordhighwater9872 considering half those things can be done on social media, and people are illiterate as f**k there, those are not great examples of literacy; have you seen how often the Internet thinks 'loose' is the same word as 'lose' ? I die inside constantly because of that. And the most well known book series is Harry Potter, which frankly is absolute garbage in terms of the quality of writing. (I remember trying to start book 4 after a certain age and thinking "Wow. This is absolutely written for young adults. ") Frankly, I'm happy any time a relatively obscure book series is mentioned, because it shows people have read and enjoyed more than what is fed to them in high school or constantly talked about by mainstream media. Like for example he could have also mentioned Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and I would have made pretty much the same comment. (Though that would have been an odd reference given the topic) I just enjoy when people go out of their way to read books people rarely talk about, and even more so when it's a series because that shows investment and not just something they picked up because they are bored at an airport or something. Qualify that. 🤪
A couple of things... the intro music slaps. I would love to know what it is, or if it's available anywhere... Next, obviously, the OG Cracked team was a national treasure. DNC was the reason I started watching Cracked, and Micheal was one of the earliest Cracked features. That shit was built on his shoulders. He was the perfect trope on After Hours. Thank you for this, S.W.A.I.M. It's entertainment and nostalgia all in one white lab coat package.
Terry Pratchett has a lesser-known book series called The Long Earth, a multiverse story where none of the alternate Earth’s have human life, many have no life at all, and multiversal travelers have to be careful when exploring new Earths because it’s entirely likely they might step into an Earth without a breathable atmosphere or just empty space where an Earth never formed.
having been forced from their home dimension, cats are constantly trying to get back there by the same activities that sent them here in the first place: chasing lasers, interacting with vibrating strings, and laying around being observed
Your idea of seeing a "small chunk" of "multiversal neighbors" is explicitly referenced in Star Trek. The Mirror universe (aka the Terran Empire universe) is depicted as being easy to cross into and out of *because* its history and population are very similar to the main Star Trek timeline. When a character from that universe is in the 29th century, it is pointed out to her that, after the Terran Empire collapsed, the two universes diverged. No one had crossed over in several hundred years due to the two timelines diverging more. This caused them to functionally become more separate and harder to move between. In fact, it started to have destructive physical effects on the Mirror character, whose atoms tried to return to the universe whose quantum state they match, but which they can no longer reach, which was slowly killing her.
Here's the thing with infinity: More than just infinite universes with slight variations, there's also going to be infinite alternate versions of our Universe that are exactly the same. Even more than that, if you were in a Universe that was infinitely big, you wouldn't even have to go to a different universe to find an exact copy of our local space time within it. You'd just have to pick a direction and travel in a straight line for infinite time.
There have been some interesting takes on multiverses in fantasy...Piers Anthony wrote the Mode series that played around with the idea of different universes, called modes, existing independently of each other, but able to be traversed using a virtual mode that intersects all the modes connected by people who serve as anchors across five different modes. Those people serving as anchors can then traverse those modes. When one of them gives up being an anchor, the virtual mode slides into chaos until another person agrees to be an anchor and then a new virtual mode forms. It's way more complicated than that, and the rules are more arbitrary than logic driven, and the quality of writing is inconsistent at best, especially over time given that this was the beginning of Anthony's decline as a writer, but the concept stuck with me for over 30 years. My favorite, though, is the Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny because the rules are much clearer and consistent. There is an anchor, a primal foundational world called Amber, and in between Amber and the Courts of Chaos are all the shadows of Amber, including our world. The actual anchor point is the Pattern, a magical construct that was drawn using a primal magical force, and this holds all the realities together. Without it, everything would exist within chaos. Close to Amber, all the shadows are similar to Amber, where magic is the norm, and the farther away you get in shadow, things get increasingly bizarre, especially the closer you get to the Courts of Chaos. Somewhere in between is our world, where science is the norm instead of magic. And then as you approach the Courts, magic becomes normal again.
The idea that anything that can happen does happen is actually kind of terrifying, as it means free will is an illusion. For instance, you have a choice to turn left or turn right and you turn right. If you are actually doing both, then there is no choice, you just happen to be randomly in the universe where you turned right. The exact same you also got put randomly in the universe where you turned left. So all your choices are just random, no matter how purposeful they might seem to us.
4:30 - Something that bugs me about the split timeline of "Ocarina of Time" is that, for one, it implies 3D Zelda games are actually hard enough to die in, since one of the timeline splits is a result of Link being defeated by Ganon. I personally think a better way of writing it could be that, when Link went back in time to inform Zelda of Ganondorf's upcoming crimes, Link actually abandoned the timeline he came from, thereby dooming the world of that timeline, since they now lacked their own Hero of Time. But hey, I don't work for Nintendo, and the damage is done, so I'm really just babbling into the void.
Swaim alone has me watching Cracked again.
literally
Me, too, dude. Me too.
I agree
Hey, I know that guy 😊
Didn't they go their own way?
Roger has his own channel.
I know I’m not unique by really enjoying this content but this is exactly what I want my videos to be at quality wise. The humor mixed with the information was beyond perfect
Swim never disappoints.
I really appreciate his work.
@@Logan7281X Ahh, you must be referring to Swaim's alternate.
Swims
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Agree
I dunno about BEYOND perfect, but it was definitely perfect 😅
Michael Swaim is awesome
I dont know if Cracked bringing my friend back will work but it's worth a try. Yes Michael. You are my best friend
I will have you know there are dozens of us who have nostalgia for Sliders. DOZENS!
Hey slidehards!
Someone has to…
@@carlkeim6134 statistically speaking
At least three, maybe four dozen
If there's a reality where Rembrandt is the number one recording artist, there's a reality where Sliders is as successful as Seinfeld
S-tier script for this video and masterfully delivered. Swaim's still got it.
Scripts
Were
Awful (and now they're)
Instantly
Magnificent
That was more physics than I was expecting and I am here for it!
Best part of cracked. Bringing back the good staff you had prior was definitely the move
Prior? Oh, you mean prior to firing them all.
Yeah, Post-Jack Cracked sucked fat flaps!
It's nice that they're bringing back the legends. Let's hope that they're being paid what they're worth...
Strictly speaking, The Chronicles of Narnia are an early example of a multiverse, as both our universe and Narnia are explicitly shown to be just two of many worlds, connected by an in-between dimension called The Woods Between The Worlds.
That might as well be the Norse idea of Midguard, Asguard, Jotunheim, Niflheim, Muspelheim etc., all connected by Yggdrasil
I always go back to and picture "the one" when multiverses are mentioned. Not the first or best, but its the first thing that pops in my head.
@@voradorhylden3410 It's always funny to me when there's like a specific number of alternate universes. "Oh so there's an infinite number of alternate realities reflecting the infinite possibilities of creation?"
"No, there's like, eleven. If you don't like Pirate Universe, too bad, that's all the Pirate Universe you get."
Sliders was my first Multi-verse media
Quantum Leap was a multiverse show. He jumps into a forked timeline, and has to correct it before the TVA prunes it (I presume, the effects of failure were never made clear).
I'm so glad that you're back, Mike.
5:00 That's also the explanation in Everything Everywhere All At Once. When they move outside the local cluster things get weird.
Swaim is the light at the end of the tunnel of content and I've never been happier
Holy crap. I’ve been watching old cracked clips and just happened to click on this and when I saw 1 hour ago was shocked
That's a beautiful thing
exact thing happened in this universe, to me!
@@tonyanthony5105 that actually happened to me with hbomberguy when his video about OOF released. I hadn't watched his videos in a couple years and he hadn't uploaded in more than a year and I just wanted to watch his Dark Souls 2 at bloodborne videos, and when I opened his channel, it said he had uploaded 45 minutes ago. And then we ended up getting the plagiarism video shortly after. (I may have the order those videos released backwards. I'm too lazy to Google it right now)
It felt like Divine Providence.
I miss this!
Same 🤣🤣
I’m just glad my universe’s Swaim knows to always go out on a banger
Man I love the way this man delivers lines. Such a joy to watch.
In this universe, I’m always excited to see a new Swaim video! I missed these
I did look it up, Michael. And you're right, I shouldn't have looked up "parallelly," because its spelling just looks wrong. My brain tells me the adverb of parallel should be "parallellily" or "parallellaly."
Parably.
Lmao
Reminds me of how the word "friendlily" always weirds me out. I accept it as technically correct, but it's so *weird*.
Love the layers in that outro!
Oh man! I LOVED Stay Tuned as a kid! I watched it all the time!
5:33 i liked sliders
Came here to see a Sliders reference. My favorite "adult show" as a kid.
Swaim still the king❤ glad to see you back
Just found this after binge watching all of the old CrackedTv and DNC vids. Could not be any more happy to see Swaim back!
Fringe was a fun dip into the parallel (but-with-some-dystopian-differences) universe. It even had Mr Nemoy showing up in the other world.
10:05 so different way using the word dimension. One as another universe with its own laws and one as other directions one can move around in. You can relate the two ideas with a brane-world type scenario, but they are distinct ideas. Each brane is fixed to some point in those extra directions leaving only our usual 4 for space-time. The particles and everything they make up like us being confined to that one brane. Another such universe being a different neighboring brane. Branes are the where the strings can terminate leaving just an end point. The reason for those extra dimensions is about making the theory consistent. There are other ways to do it. You need the right conformal anomaly cancelation number and 6 extra dimensions is such an example. Other reasons for this choice require even more explanation.
Good job Michael Swaim . Thank you for taking all those equations and theories and breaking them down
Okay, there's only three possibilities. Either Swaim was always much smarter than he appeared in every other video, or he somehow became much smarter over the past few years--both very unlikely-- hence, the only logical conclusion is that Swaim has swapped with a much smarter body double from an alternate universe.
Well remember, the original SWAIM was a robot, and SWAIM was just a constantly changing-occasionally recursive-acronym.
But that means SOMEONE had to build the Swaimbot, perhaps this is the mad scientist responsible for that brilliant feat of engineering?!
All jokes aside though, Swain has always had that foolish genius athing about him. Everyone at cracked was obsessively obsessive. Almost like they were on... 😮
Well for those of us that are long term viewers you'll understand that "Micheal" here has the formula for cold fusion memorized
Mind blown!!! Stay tuned was a favorite growing up and I never thought that the different channels could be different realities
I have said the phrase "sliders really got it right" several times in my life and I have been correct every time.
Like the one where the Sliders gang end up in a world that is basically ALL FIRE ALL THE TIME and bring a being of living fire to a different universe.
Loving the content Michael 🤘
I absolutely have not forgotten about 'Stay Tuned' and it's stars. I love that movie.
2:56 *Hey! I like that movie! A: An animated sequence in the style of Tex Avery and 2: A brief reference to "Three's Company".*
Absolutely loving these, by the way, Swaim + Cracked will always be good. Someone just gift him the channel and watch the success happen
More Michael Swaim please.
Some universes say violet but indigo knows what it did❤
This episode has the best science so far. No notes. Swaim might not be a "real" scientist. But he is the next best thing, a youtube science communicator.
Thanks for exposing the science fiction in mainstream science.
"What's UP with that?"
Just sublime!
Thankyou so much for coming back, i miss after hours so much, you guys were the best while i was growing up, love you swaim you beautiful beast of a man
great content. Nice mixed of old school cracked with a new pop science educational twist.
I wish you would have explained, that in MWI that our perception of a wave function collapse, that we become entangled with it, and now exist in a larger wave function. Also understand that these other worlds have to be possible and their language is that of probability fields, and so most other “universes” would look incredibly similar to our own.
In infinite realities, all things are possible.
@ lol, no
@ if so, it’s reasonable then that there’s a reality that can destroy all other realities, so since everything is possible, it’s possible that everything is destroyed, so that nothing is possible. In other words, utter nonsense.
@ not only that, but media has conditioned you to think these realities actually exist, which MWI does not say, this is entanglement with probability fields. Conservation of energy cannot be violated, there is only one universe but the wave function has been extended whenever wave collapse is observed.
@@dustinhaas8538 cool, cool, cool, cool.
There's a lot of science to get pedantic about in this video but... it's Michael, so... nice !
So glad Swaim is back 🎉
This video is exactly what I needed today.
I like the idea that dark matter is just other universes interacting with ours via gravity, the subtle interactions creates huge structures like galaxies in roughly the same place(s) on the macro scale, but don't have enough effect for us to see it on our scale.
Michael Swaim is drawn to making heady list video series in every timeline, much to my enjoyment.
Never change Swaim. In this dimension or the next. Or do change. It's your life. Either way, you're amazing in every dimension.
Physicists have latched on to the idea that the extra dimensions are small and curled up so that we can't interact with them (like the dimension of circumference on a wire that could be significant for something small enough but not for us at our normal size) but my thought is that maybe our three spatial dimensions are the small ones and time and other spatial dimensions are the big ones. Like, we're a bug who can walk around and around the wire but don't have any way to access the length of the wire, or can only access it by limited spiraling around and around the circumference at an angle so that we never return to the same spot (in this analogy, the length of the wire is our time dimension). Or one of my favorites from _A Wrinkle In Time_ a fish in a river might have three dimensions of travel within the water but have to travel the long way around the various meanders, but no access at all to the world above the surface where they could cut across the narrow spits of land that separate two points because the river folds in on itself.
That always made sense to me. Like, relatively speaking, all realities are in the nooks and crannies of other realities. Perhaps certain supernatural phenomena are when different planes bleed into each other.
I like "brane collision theory" as an explanation for quantum phenomena. Two universes with slightly different sets of physical laws collide, which causes both universes to "reset" into one universe that obeys both sets of rules put together. If true, this could take Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems to a crazy place where the universal laws themselves contain contradictions and/or unprovable facts.
How could they prove we aren't a folded dimension in someone else's big universe?
@@marc21256 I have no idea. But we're also bumping up against instrument sensitivity limits trying to prove that the other dimensions are small in ours. So, we have problems either direction.
You look good Mike!
Sooo glad to have my Swaim fix. I missed him during the radio silence of the original cracked crew ( other than Cody on his showdey).
Love it, keep them coming!!
I discovered you through behind the bastards, true datay. Solid video, and highly entertaining.
Love you Michael!❤
Loved this!
Stay Tuned, what a classic
"what's - like - up with that? ---Science wise..."
I will be using this from now on thank you ❤
In fairness, Everything Everywhere All At Once explained that all the universes being experienced by the main character are neighbors where the protagonist lived a similar life, because larger jumps cause more damage to the participant. Even the sillier universes still at least have a person with a similar look, name, etc., because that's how the in-universe tech works.
If you think of the multiverse as branches, it makes sense that nearby universes would be similar as they split more recently. Energy to travel to neighboring universes is a lot less than it would take to go somewhere radically different from our own.
00:21
I love this man
SWAIM!! He's back.
Unrelated Fact because you brought up Stay Tuned; I watch Stay Tuned EVERY time my Internet is down for more than 2 hours 🤣🤣
It always tickles my pickle when a video brings up The Dark Tower. Perhaps because it gives me hope that literacy is not dead (yet)
well, at least not amongst us lit majors...
Brought up the Dark Tower, yes; but he barely mentioned that it was a series and used clips taken from that travesty of a film. Lol.
But does it really give you hope about literacy when they mention The Dark Tower? Why not when someone mentions reading the news? Or a text book? Or an email or text? Or is it really that the Dark Tower tickles your pickle, and you just didn't want to seem weird, so you had to qualify your statement?
@@bufordhighwater9872 considering half those things can be done on social media, and people are illiterate as f**k there, those are not great examples of literacy; have you seen how often the Internet thinks 'loose' is the same word as 'lose' ? I die inside constantly because of that.
And the most well known book series is Harry Potter, which frankly is absolute garbage in terms of the quality of writing. (I remember trying to start book 4 after a certain age and thinking "Wow. This is absolutely written for young adults. ")
Frankly, I'm happy any time a relatively obscure book series is mentioned, because it shows people have read and enjoyed more than what is fed to them in high school or constantly talked about by mainstream media. Like for example he could have also mentioned Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and I would have made pretty much the same comment. (Though that would have been an odd reference given the topic)
I just enjoy when people go out of their way to read books people rarely talk about, and even more so when it's a series because that shows investment and not just something they picked up because they are bored at an airport or something.
Qualify that. 🤪
He stands. He is true.
Michael, you look really healthy and happy. I'm really happy for you.
Stay Tuned is one of my favorite little hidden gems.
A couple of things... the intro music slaps. I would love to know what it is, or if it's available anywhere...
Next, obviously, the OG Cracked team was a national treasure. DNC was the reason I started watching Cracked, and Micheal was one of the earliest Cracked features. That shit was built on his shoulders. He was the perfect trope on After Hours.
Thank you for this, S.W.A.I.M.
It's entertainment and nostalgia all in one white lab coat package.
These are all amazing, outside of the "feels like he never actually 'answers' the video's title. WHAT 90'S SHOW???
09:12 The color you're missing is not indigo (dark blue) but violet (purple).
I had no idea Swaim was back here. He has single handledly made me return to Cracked.
I lolled at the Philip Rivers joke way too hard
That joke only exists for a handful of people, but that handful includes you and I
@@lvanderzyAgreed brother
@@lvanderzyagreed brother
Michael Swain is the cooking timer to my own demise that I never thought I'd need it or would have
Terry Pratchett has a lesser-known book series called The Long Earth, a multiverse story where none of the alternate Earth’s have human life, many have no life at all, and multiversal travelers have to be careful when exploring new Earths because it’s entirely likely they might step into an Earth without a breathable atmosphere or just empty space where an Earth never formed.
Thanks, Michael 🙂
Great video.
Havent watched this yet, but came here to say, "SLIDERS!!" 😊
There's another dimension in which every word in this video is "dimension."
Derek Derek Derek
I remember this dude from like a decade ago. Looking young bro!
having been forced from their home dimension, cats are constantly trying to get back there by the same activities that sent them here in the first place: chasing lasers, interacting with vibrating strings, and laying around being observed
Swaim, if you don't bring back Escort Mission the multiverse will collapse. Save us
Coherence is such a great film I stumbled upon. Which I later found out was mostly improvised by the actors. 🔥 🔥 🔥
this was a good one,
this is not the channel I was expecting to have a theory of everything discussion yet here we are
Your idea of seeing a "small chunk" of "multiversal neighbors" is explicitly referenced in Star Trek. The Mirror universe (aka the Terran Empire universe) is depicted as being easy to cross into and out of *because* its history and population are very similar to the main Star Trek timeline. When a character from that universe is in the 29th century, it is pointed out to her that, after the Terran Empire collapsed, the two universes diverged. No one had crossed over in several hundred years due to the two timelines diverging more. This caused them to functionally become more separate and harder to move between. In fact, it started to have destructive physical effects on the Mirror character, whose atoms tried to return to the universe whose quantum state they match, but which they can no longer reach, which was slowly killing her.
Here's the thing with infinity: More than just infinite universes with slight variations, there's also going to be infinite alternate versions of our Universe that are exactly the same.
Even more than that, if you were in a Universe that was infinitely big, you wouldn't even have to go to a different universe to find an exact copy of our local space time within it. You'd just have to pick a direction and travel in a straight line for infinite time.
I just learned swaim is back on Cracked, so i re-subbed.
The urkel joke legit made me lol f.r. 9/10
There have been some interesting takes on multiverses in fantasy...Piers Anthony wrote the Mode series that played around with the idea of different universes, called modes, existing independently of each other, but able to be traversed using a virtual mode that intersects all the modes connected by people who serve as anchors across five different modes. Those people serving as anchors can then traverse those modes. When one of them gives up being an anchor, the virtual mode slides into chaos until another person agrees to be an anchor and then a new virtual mode forms. It's way more complicated than that, and the rules are more arbitrary than logic driven, and the quality of writing is inconsistent at best, especially over time given that this was the beginning of Anthony's decline as a writer, but the concept stuck with me for over 30 years.
My favorite, though, is the Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny because the rules are much clearer and consistent. There is an anchor, a primal foundational world called Amber, and in between Amber and the Courts of Chaos are all the shadows of Amber, including our world. The actual anchor point is the Pattern, a magical construct that was drawn using a primal magical force, and this holds all the realities together. Without it, everything would exist within chaos. Close to Amber, all the shadows are similar to Amber, where magic is the norm, and the farther away you get in shadow, things get increasingly bizarre, especially the closer you get to the Courts of Chaos. Somewhere in between is our world, where science is the norm instead of magic. And then as you approach the Courts, magic becomes normal again.
Who ever thought we’d live in a universe where MICHEAL SWAIM of all people was coherently teaching people the MWI and string theory?
5:06, I knew Gary was right about the multiverse!
Alternate universe Philip Rivers, love it
Mike's back everybody!
Holy shit he's back
The idea that anything that can happen does happen is actually kind of terrifying, as it means free will is an illusion.
For instance, you have a choice to turn left or turn right and you turn right. If you are actually doing both, then there is no choice, you just happen to be randomly in the universe where you turned right. The exact same you also got put randomly in the universe where you turned left. So all your choices are just random, no matter how purposeful they might seem to us.
4:30 - Something that bugs me about the split timeline of "Ocarina of Time" is that, for one, it implies 3D Zelda games are actually hard enough to die in, since one of the timeline splits is a result of Link being defeated by Ganon.
I personally think a better way of writing it could be that, when Link went back in time to inform Zelda of Ganondorf's upcoming crimes, Link actually abandoned the timeline he came from, thereby dooming the world of that timeline, since they now lacked their own Hero of Time.
But hey, I don't work for Nintendo, and the damage is done, so I'm really just babbling into the void.
It's the Swaimaissance!
Wait... Swaim is back on cracked?!?! Rejoice!
“…assigns each one a different floor of the… no I already said tower…”
“Spire?”
“…spire!”
“Yes!” 💪
Let's get this man a research team full of spunky comedy/science interns to keep this going!
Stay Tuned was a cool ass movie!
0:10 And here I thought Cracked sucked. Turns out I was just watching the Chargers the whole time
SO I WAS WATCHING CRACKED SINCE I WAS 9?!??!!
5:46 this is the Lead singer of 90s rock band Eels lead singers father
Bring back Obsessive Pop Culture Detective
Daniel works for John Oliver as a staff writer, he is probably busy. I agree that series was great.