In this case we know how to make predictions, because after a while the multiverse forgets about the unknown initial conditions. The only catch: Each of the DC Universe's core trinity of superheroes must face each of these Crises on their own and survive with the retrieved Crisis energy intact. Our most promising fundamental theory, string theory, does not make unique predictions. Transposed with Earth-One. Instead, the point is that our recipe for calculating probabilities accidentally injected a novel type of catastrophe into the theory. Once the theory becomes well-defined by making the total number of people finite, probability questions have unique, sensible answers. He works on fundamental questions in gravity and cosmology. Kal-El / Clark Luthor / Ultraman (Clark Kent's doppelgnger), and other doppelgngers of the, Kal-El / Mister Majestic (Clark Kent's doppelgnger), Henry James Olsen, Lois Lane. This Earth consists of inhabitants from the previous Earth-1, Earth-2, Earth-3, Earth-38, and Black Lightning ' s unnamed Earth. Inhabitants are not aware of the creation of the new multiverse and believe it does not exist. Established as an alternate universe in "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Five". Nash Wells' adoptive daughter Maya died on this Earth while on an adventure. Since we cant keep track of where all the molecules are, and anyway their positions change with time, we assume that any microstate is equally likely. But an important issue tends to go unnoticed in debates over the multiverse. ", "Every Arrow-verse Cameo From The Crisis On Infinite Earths Crossover So Far", "What Earths Did 'The Flash' Get Their Council of Wells From? Eventually all of the particles will accidentally cluster in one corner of the box. As of 2019, Jay Garrick retired as the Flash due to his diminishing speed and settled down with Joan Williams. In the multiverse, the volume of space grows indefinitely, all the while producing expanding bubbles with a variety of states inside. It is like a swirling cloud that, all of a sudden, just so happens to take the shape of a person. Filled with rage, he disabled his ring's safeguard against lethal force and used its powers to murder criminals. It appears to be pre-industrial in terms of its technological base. As the molecules bounce around, they will arrange and rearrange themselves in every possible way they can, thus exploring all their possible configurations, or microstates. This process will erase the memory of how the gas started out, allowing us to ignore the problem of initial conditions. Its dangerous to take a long nap in the second option, because you might be killed by a meteor while sleeping. To put it all together: Theoretical and observational evidence suggests that we are living in an enormous, eternally expanding multiverse where the constants of nature vary from place to place. DCs mega-event Infinite Crisis saw the destruction of the Trinity, the rise of Alexander Luthor and Superboy-Prime, and the rebirth of the Multiversebut it all started with Ted Kord, the Blue Beetle, who saw it all coming and died with secrets that couldve saved the world. According to Gideon, there are about 3.725 trillion changes to reality as a result of the Crisis. 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. This universe was accidentally uncovered by Iris West-Allen while investigating Eva McCulloch, who disappeared in the first particle accelerator explosion. It is stated that most of this Earth's Legends have retired and one died. From time to time, people perform these sleeper experiments, except now the subjects sleep either for 1 year or for 100 years. Has the theory lost its mooring to observation? 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. Bousso, Stefan Leichenauer at Berkeley, Vladimir Rosenhaus at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, and I pointed out that these strange results have a simple physical interpretation: The reason that more sleepers wake up from short naps is that living in an eternally expanding universe is dangerous, because one can run into the end of time. This Earth's Etrigan is a demon from the planet Kamelot who was sent to Earth by the wizard Merlin. 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 second option on our list is that the universe has an infinite number of states available to it. If a theory makes no predictions, it ceases to be physics. In fact, given the parameters that define our universe, we calculated that there is about a 50 percent probability of encountering the end of time in the next 5 billion years. An astrobiologist and a director on the joys and challenges of filming space science. This strange effect occurs because the volume of space is exponentially expanding and never stops. When it comes to physics, says Sean Carroll, you need the math. In his death he was remembered as a hero in the world above. During Dark Crisis: Big Bang #1 (by Dan Jurgens and Mark Waid), the Flash runs through dozens of universes and draws a map at the end of the issue. The trouble was first pointed out by the astronomer and physicist Sir Arthur Eddington in 1931, if not earlier. Therefore, the theory conflicts with observation: It predicts that typical observers should see a completely blank sky, without stars, when they look up at night. WebThe ending of Crisis on Infinite Earths had history rewritten so that there never was a multiverse, and instead there was just one universe that incorporated characters from An Earth of pulp characters, both derived from classic DC characters and also drawing on classic literary pulp characters. Another tells us that most of the volume will be taken up by the state the decays the slowest. Inhabitants are not aware of the creation of the new multiverse and believe it does not exist. Our job is to develop a similar statistical understanding of events in the multiverse. Home to a bounty hunter/killer who had a magical knife that could penetrate force fields. An Earth of sapient metasimians known as the Primate Legion, consisting of. 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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. Dark Crisis led DC in a very different direction than most readers expected, as what was initially sold as the death of the Justice League wound up becoming the birth of many worlds. The expansion approaches a steady-state behavior, with the expanding high-energy state continually expanding and budding off lower-energy regions. Though Crisis on Infinite Earths and Flashpoint are both brilliant stories, their practical fallout was largely reactionary. At root, our problems arise because the multiverse is an infinite expanse of space and time. An Earth visited by the Earth-One Jimmy Olsen. Note that Wonder Woman met a duplicate version of herself coming from an unnamed twin Earth in "Wonder Woman's Invisible Twin", (Wonder Woman #59 (MayJune 1953)). 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. Following the Crisis, with the multiverse having been reborn and multiple Earths being merged, there are changes from the original multiverse. The high stakes make for a gripping story, and the climactic final battle explores existential questions about the multiverse and what it would mean for our lives. [80], cameo appearance: Trinity #52 (May 2009) Solomon, the Monitor of Earth-8, conspired for it to be infected by the. Grant Morrison defines Earth 34 and Earth 35, and possibly other neighboring Earths, as homes to "copies of copies", home to analogues to Justice League analogues produced by writers, Grant Morrison defines Earth-34 and Earth-35, and possibly other neighboring Earths, as homes to "copies of copies", home to analogues to Justice League analogues produced by writers, Described as a grim, lawless Earth of rapid technological advancement in the '60s, '70s and '80s, A real-time Earth where Batman and Superman debuted in the 1930s, as in, This Earth is a "binary universe" to Earth-20, containing evil counterparts of those characters, including, This Earth went to war against Earth-20 five years ago, Characters on this Earth are based on characters published by, This world had no evil, death, or violence until Earth-45's Superdoomsday showed up and killed their Superman. At the end of the crisis, only 52 universes remained. In the multiverse, the volume of space grows indefinitely, all the while producing expanding bubbles with a variety of states inside. We count how many observers in the multiverse measure a physical quantity to have a given value. The Earth-One Batman and Gotham City first appeared in Detective Comics #327 (May 1964)[3][4], The Adventures of Bob Hope #94 (September 1965) for Earth-Twelve, (Earth-692)[17] Suppose that the population of Earth doubles every 30 yearsforever. Based on the hit videogame INFINITE CRISIS, the It was a combination of modern multi-cultural sensibilities combined with Silver Age-style innocence. This Earth appeared to be technologically less advanced than Earth-Two, with Dazam's navy using oar-powered ships. Pariah uses it to trap various members of the Justice League in private realities that supposedly represent their ideal worlds, as a sort of "honey trap". Spoilers for Avengers Harbinger visited this universe's Earth and retrieved its. Although it turns out to be wrong, in its failure we find the roots of our current predicament. existed only in fiction. Berkeley and then Alan Guth at MIT. This problem indicates that we are missing major pieces in our understanding of physics over large distances and long times. The Earth of this universe was described as volcano-like. A swirling cloud, all of a sudden, just so happens to take the shape of a person. An Earth where, since the Justice League did such a good job of fighting crime, their children and sidekicks have nothing really to do. "Infinite Luthor". 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). We still find ourselves making absurd predictions. Dark Crisis: The Dark Army is written by Mark Waid, Delilah S. Dawson, and Dennis Culver, penciled by Jack Herbert and Freddie E. Williams II, colored by Adriano Lucas, and lettered by Troy Petteri. Appeared as an alternate Earth in the "Crisis on Infinite Earths" tie-in comic, where the Phantom Stranger resides. Who's Who Too! A teenage Superman (Superboy) and his dog (Krypto) are Earth's first superheroes; later, home to the Superfriends, Super Soldier, Dark Claw and other "amalgamated" heroes. But then were back to the problem of initial conditions. This Harrison Wells, known as H.R., has a hipster style and is recruited to Earth-1 to become a member of Team Flash. (Earth-9602)[18] On the one hand, you might argue that obviously the odds are 50/50. A universe which nearly destroyed Earth-19. Heroes and villains have since adapted to their magically infused environment, developing strange new abilities. It was discovered by Professor Ray Palmer in his investigations of this dimension, In this place, the Power Girl (Karen Starr) of Prime Earth and Tanya Spears (Power Girl II) are trapped, Much like the regular Earth 11, all genders are reversed here. Jesse Wells, daughter of Harrison, serves as this world's speedster under the name Jesse Quick, as the name "Flash" was tainted by the actions of Zoom impersonating Earth-3's Jay Garrick. On this universe's Earth, details are similar to that of the world of. Mirror versions of Eva McCulloch, Iris West Allen, David Singh and Kamilla Hwang. Taking this argument to an extreme, the most common type of observer in this theory is one that requires the minimal fluctuation away from equilibrium. Camelot exists as a significant population center. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The real world and the keystone Earth from which all the other Earths within the DC Multiverse originated. Originally, there was no consistency regarding "numbered" Earthsthey would be either spelled out as words or use numbers, even within the same story. It is the third possibility that holds the most promise for yielding sensible predictions. Sherloque and his partner Watsune battled this Earth's Mad Hatter; Watsune died facing him alone. Tales of horrors prowling the night were once just legends on this Earth - until the darkness returned. A key simplification allows us to do this. It has no vibrational frequency. Second, perhaps the multiverse is able to explore an infinite number of different states, in which case it never forgets its initial conditions, andwe cannot make predictions unless we know what those conditions are. For example, "Crisis on Earth-Three!" Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? He grew up to become Overman, leader of the New Reichsmen, alongside Leatherwing, Brnhilde, Underwaterman and Blitzen. 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