That should tell us the steady-state behavior. It is a compelling idea. An Earth visited by the Earth-One Jimmy Olsen. But then were back to the problem of initial conditions. However, it is not known if these are part of the Multiverse, if they exist in Hypertime, or something else. It would thus require a profound shift in the way physicists think. Once we realized this, it became clear that this end-of-time effect was an inherent characteristic of the recipe we were using to calculate probabilities, and it is there whether or not anyone actually decides to undertake these strange sleeper experiments. On the one hand, you might argue that obviously the odds are 50/50. Its Superman is a facsimile to Ray Palmer, who is Earth-1's superhero the Atom. This Earth's timeline was akin to Earth-1, Earth-2, and Earth-38's to a certain degree, such as its Oliver Queen becoming a trained archer, Kara Zor-El's arrival after the planet Krypton's apocalyptic demise, and. The Joker and Mr. Mxyzptlk summon Batmen and Supermen from various realities, both previously established worlds as well as unexplored ones.[12]. Worse, many of these prescriptions predict that the vast majority of observers are Boltzmann brains. Each issue contains a code to unlock a champion in Infinite Crisis. Cosmologists generally assume it must have begun that way, but Boltzmann pointed out that, over the vastness of the eons, even a chaotic universe will randomly fluctuate into a highly ordered state. But can we imagine, on the other side, how small a part of the whole universe this world is? Then the tools that Boltzmann developed are no longer useful in calculating the probability of different things happening. On this Earth, diverging from a common early history with Earth-12, United States President Lex Luthor killed the Flash, leading to his murder by Superman and inspiring a cruel dystopian regime enforced by the Lords. There is no step-by-step process that sculpts it. Characters shown in the television series, Intelligent anthropomorphic talking animals, protected by the superhero group the, Magical versions of several DC characters, The Wildstorm Universe, featuring characters such as, Utopian society where many deceased characters are still alive, "Forgotten" characters such as Merryman of the, A superhero community just starting out on a contemporary Earth, Alternate versions of Superman, Green Lantern, the Flash, and others, Pastiches of characters featured in rival publisher Marvel Comics', The New Reichsmen and the Freedom Fighters, Reversed-gender versions of DC Comics characters, including Superwoman, Batwoman, Wondrous Man, The Society of Super-Heroes, pulp versions of DC heroes, Aquawoman, Bat woman, the Question, Star girl, Supergirl, Wonder Woman, Zatanna, Intelligent, anthropomorphic, talking animals, protected by the superhero group the. The vacua are all physically realized within an enormous eternally inflating multiverse. Similar to the real world, superheroes exist only in fiction, outside of Superboy-Prime and the 2004 incarnation of the Legion of Super-Heroes, The Antimatter Universe is a "universe of evil". This world functions somewhat differently than most worlds of the multiverse. The trouble is that there is no unique way to do this, because there is no universal way to define a moment in time. It is like a swirling cloud that, all of a sudden, just so happens to take the shape of a person. Per his notes, this world is. The reason is that all our theories in physics are dynamical: The fundamental physical laws describe what will happen, given what already is. The Superman of this Earth gave up his powers so he could have a family. Cosmology has always faced a problem of making predictions. A small fluctuation that makes an ordered structure in a small part of space is far, far more likely than a large fluctuation that forms ordered structures over a huge region of space. Mistaking the crash for a first strike, the United States unleashed its full nuclear arsenal against the Soviet Union, who retaliated. First, the multiverse, though very large, might be able to explore only a finite number of different states, just like an ordinary box of gas. Superman is the only hero of this universe. Boltzmanns proposal was a bold extrapolation from his work on understanding gases. Because 52 introduced another set of Earths, The Flash: Flashpoint changed the nature of many of those Earths. This Earth was attacked and seized by Darkseid when it collided with his home planet of Apokolips. Felicity Smoak arrived to this universe to seek information on the planet, This Harrison Wells, known as Wells the Grey, is inspired by the wizard. Berkeley and then Alan Guth at MIT. Bruce Wayne's family lost their fortune during the, Under the name Lexo, concert pianist Luthor marries Lois Lane shortly before his death, Elected in 1972, Prez Rickard serves two terms and then drops out of sight, This Earth involves out-of-continuity Post-, Home to the version of Shade, the Changing Man from the Vertigo series by, An Earth that was ravaged by an atomic war in the year 1986, The Atomic Knights part exists in the Hypertime versions called, An Earth where a blind Lois Lane marries Superman and they have a super-daughter before Superman is disfigured by a mixture of green and red kryptonite, Jor-El and Lara enlarge their rocket ship so that they can all go to this Earth. The New 52 and Convergence restored the Pre-Crisis Multiverse; all Pre-Crisis Earths below 52 are spelled out (i.e., Earth-Three), realities from the 52 Multiverse use a hyphen (Earth-3), and realities from the New 52 Multiverse use a space (i.e., Earth 3). Our stories take you into the depths of 2023 NautilusNext Inc., All rights reserved. existed only in fiction. Then we calculate what happens when the time becomes arbitrarily large. He can be found most days actively dismantling the rules of a local TTRPG and can be reached at ben.b@cbr.com. The Earth of this universe was dead and uninhabited. After the destruction of Alexander Luthor Jr.'s Multiverse Tower in, Merged with Vertigo Earth and Earth-50 in the wake of the, Originally an Earth populated by blue-skinned humanoids who worshiped the now-deified Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman of New Earth; it was reshaped into an Earth reflective of the 21st century, The original version of this Earth appeared in, Hal Jordan calls the Marvel Universe's Earth-616 "Earth-2" in, An Earth of reversed moralities that resembles the Pre-, This Earth contains evil counterparts of characters from Earth-2, Heroic versions of the Joker and the Riddler appear in the, A condensed universe where the laws of physics are different, Captain Allen Adam (a.k.a. Answers to the biggest mysteries may lie well outside traditional paradigms. On this world, the degradation of Earth's ozone layer exposed the Earth to a previously unknown type of radiation that gave 29 random people superpowers. Contents 1 History 2 Notes 3 Trivia Heroes and villains have begun to emerge from all corners of society, and with them bringing new sources of power and problems far stranger than steam and gaslights. A swirling cloud, all of a sudden, just so happens to take the shape of a person. The multiverse is a theory in which universes exist beyond our own, each with its own set of physical laws and realities that are distinct from one another. Just when things were looking good, we encountered a conceptual problem that I see no escape from within our current understanding: the end-of-time problem. The scenario may sound extreme, even silly. Mirror versions of Eva McCulloch, Iris West Allen, David Singh and Kamilla Hwang. They are opposed by the Freedom Fighters, led by Uncle Sam, along with the Ray, the Black Condor, the Human Bomb, the Phantom Lady, Doll Man and Doll Woman, A magic-based Earth, where an occult version of the Justice League is led by Superdemon, a combination of Superman and, A "perfect" universe that was destroyed by. [77][78], There are 52 Earths in the local Multiverse home to the DCU Prime Earth, though due to the time-traveling interventions of Brainiac, the Hal Jordan of the Pre-Zero Hour New Earth DCU, and Superman of the Pre-Flashpoint New Earth altering the course of the Crisis on Infinite Earths, an infinite number of universes from previous incarnations of the Multiverse exist beyond these 52. The multiverse appears to offer a middle way. Now suppose you have just woken up and have a chance to bet whether you have been asleep for 1 year or 50 billion years. Observers in distant parts of spacetime are too far apart and accelerating away from each other too fast to be able to send signals to each other, so they cannot synchronize their clocks. Suppose that every day 1 percent of the population takes part. The fact that two logical lines of argument yield contradictory answers tells us that the problem is not well-defined. There is no information regarding its connection (if any) to the Earth-898 of, A cosmic plague hits this Earth, killing all men except for Superman and Lex Luthor, An Earth that has a college-age Superboy as its only hero, An Earth where Supergirl and Batgirl are members of a Justice Society, An Earth where a heroic Catwoman fought crime in Gotham City and married Bruce Wayne, unaware that he is actually the evil murderer Batman, A high fantasy world that must contend with the return of the Beast (, An Earth where Diana defected to the Axis powers, helping them win World War II, and Lois Lane becomes Wonder Woman, The rocket ship containing Kal-El diverted from its path to Earth and landed on, An Earth where Batman and Robin fought the Riddler on their first formal case and where Harvey "Two-Face" Dent was ultimately rehabilitated, An Earth where Superman landed in a Soviet commune in Ukraine instead of Smallville, An Earth where Kryptonian Atticus Kent, a.k.a. For this procedure to work, the total number of microstates, while very large, must be finite. For instance, if 10 percent of observers live in regions of the multiverse where dark matter is made out of light particles (such as axions), while 90 percent of observers live in regions where dark matter is made out of heavy particles (which, counterintuitively, are called WIMPs), then we have a 10 percent chance of discovering that dark matter is made of light particles. Tales of the Multiverse: Batman - Vampire, All-Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder, Superman/Shazam! Because the position of each molecule cannot be specified exactly, the gas has only a finite number of distinct configurations. The Official Crisis on Infinite Earths Index (March 1986) and The Official Crisis on Infinite Earths Crossover Index (July 1986) formally canonized the "Crossover Earth" where the Marvel and DC characters co-existed, making multiverse-changing events problematic at best. This supposedly reduced the number of earths down to a far more manageable number. It is unknown what exactly caused its desolation, though, A reality where the Justice League are a brutal force that maintains order on Earth. In a box of gas, this finitude is guaranteed by the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics. An Earth where Barbara Gordon and her boyfriend Richart Graustark become Batgirl and Robin in 1961 and fight against corrupt cops and other establishment types led by the white-faced Bianca Steeplechase, a.k.a. A compromise was done, where these properties were put back to various Earths in the multiverse, and the Arrowverse series were combined to a single Earth.[219]. The DC Multiverse is a fictional continuity construct used in DC Comics publications. In this case we know how to make predictions, because after a while the multiverse forgets about the unknown initial conditions. Appeared as the future of an alternate universe in "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Two". "Infinite Luthor Part 2", Marv Wolfman and Marc Guggenheim(w),Tom Grummett(p),Danny Miki(i),Chris Sotomayor(col),Wes Abbott(let),Katie Kubert(ed). It has to do with what are now called Boltzmann brains. Suppose the universe is like a box of gas and, most of the time, is in thermal equilibriumjust a uniform, undifferentiated gruel. This page was last edited on 18 January 2023, at 17:01. How do we do that for the entire universe? This Earth is currently trapped in a bottle awaiting a potential return. This time, however, DC determined that it was time to take a different approach. What a shame that it is wrong. Aswirling cloud, all of a sudden, just so happens to take the shape of a person. [32] Each universe within the Multiverse is separated by a Source Wall, behind which the Anti-Life Equation keeps the universes apart. Assuming the universe is great enough, the probability that such a small part of it as our world should be in its present state, is no longer small. Ben Freivogel is an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam. Heroes and villains have since adapted to their magically infused environment, developing strange new abilities. In Infinite Frontier, it is identified as the remnants of the pre-Crisis Multiverse. Politically, Earth-Two was different from the Earth-One template modeled after Earth-Prime. Alan Moore's "What Ever happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" Observers in distant parts of spacetime are too far apart and accelerating away from each other too fast to be able to send signals to each other, so they cannot synchronize their clocks. Superman offered Pariah aid to absolve his mistakes but Pariah rejects their help believing that the heroes ruined everything. On this Earth, America lost the. For instance, if 10 percent of observers live in regions of the multiverse where dark matter is made out of light particles (such as axions), while 90 percent of observers live in regions where dark matter is made out of heavy particles (which, counterintuitively, are called WIMPs), then we have a 10 percent chance of discovering that dark matter is made of light particles. He claims that he will let the Justice League's world die for the true Multiverse to be reborn. The combination of a theoretically convincing motivation with Weinbergs remarkable success made the multiverse idea attractive enough that a number of researchers, including me, have spent years trying to work it out in detail. In many ways, the first option is the most agreeable to physicists, because it extends our well-established statistical techniques. ". The Green Lantern of Earth-12 is a descendant of Hal Jordan. 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