[Robert]

This next chat session will be held on Sunday, July 24th at 7:00am Central Standard Time (CST) also known as (GMT-6). We usually end after about 2 hours, but you may come and go as you please. You can use the timezone converter to convert to your local time. Once there, enter the day and time as specified above, then select US/Central in the "From Time Zone" column and your own location in the "To Time Zone" column, then click Convert. Be sure and unclick the "Use Current Date/Time" option. This will give you the time of the chat meeting in your own local time.

Some other areas:

Texas, U.S. - Sunday, 7:00am
California, U.S. - Sunday, 5:00am
Singapore - Sunday, 8:00pm
London - Sunday, 1:00pm
Madrid, Spain - Sunday, 2:00pm
India - Sunday, 5:30pm
Melbourne, Australia - Sunday, 10:00pm
New Zealand - Monday, 12:00am
Sweden - Sunday, 2:00am
Canada, Eastern - Sunday, 8:00am

This will be our ninth official ToeQuest chat meeting. Chat meetings are usually scheduled every two weeks using alternating times: Fri-11pm, Sat-3pm, Sun-7am (Central Standard Time). Since our community has 610 members from 75 countries, I use this schedule to reach the widest audience possible. All members are welcome to participate in the chat or, if you prefer, just listen in.

This chat meeting will be our first one using the new chat room! When you click on the "Chat Rooms" option on the navigation bar you will now see a drop down menu with the new chat room listed as Flash Chat and the old one listed as Original Chat. Be sure to choose "Flash Chat".

This chat session will cover a controversial aspect of Quantum Mechanics that may be useful in explaining certain phenomenon, but it's explanation of reality is very bizarre indeed! We'll be discussing the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, originally proposed by Dr. Hugh Everett III in 1957.

The Many-Worlds Interpretation

The fundamental idea of the Many-Worlds interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is that there are myriads of worlds in the Universe in addition to the one we are aware of. Whenever a quantum experiment with different outcomes of non-zero probability is performed, all outcomes are obtained, each in a different world.

As a backup topic, we can discuss the idea of other dimensions as proposed by string theory or parallel worlds as suggested by Dr. Michio Kaku.

Please add your pre-chat comments to this thread. If you have any topics you would like to discuss, you might post it here ahead of time.

One more note to participants of the chat room -- I want to proceed with the assumption that all of reality is accessible and can be explained given enough time, thought, experimentation. You must be able to rationally argue your points. To say "That's just the way it is" or "God created the universe" will be frowned upon in the chat since that view assumes that there is a part of reality that is forever hidden from us.

For now just google, "Many Worlds" view, and you should locate several relevant websites that discuss this topic. Be sure to include the quotes in your search phrase. I'll try and post a list of references tomorrow.

Regards,
--Robert