It is not the enemy of prediction, but its friend. [228] This leaves open the question of how (or even if) the Pre-Crisis, Hypertime, 52 and post-Flashpoint Multiverses interact. If the coin came up heads, the experimenters wake you up after one year. We still find ourselves making absurd predictions. The vacua are all physically realized within an enormous eternally inflating multiverse. In an interview Jeff King stated, "The battle to save not one, but two multiverses in Convergence provides it", and later states "In Convergence #8 we reference Multiversity and show you some of the Post-Convergence worlds that make up the reconstituted DC Multiverse. Suppose that every day 1 percent of the population takes part. Attributing the idea to his assistant, known to history only as Dr. Idea Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. Versions of DC Comics characters who pilot giant, Home to the Red Racer, Optiman, the Iron Knight, and Flashlight of the Justice 9, Home to Spore, the Dino-Cop, the Nimrod Squad, Nightcracker, the Scorpion, Sepulchre, The Blood League, vampire versions of the Justice League, Superdoomsday and the corporation Overcorp, A grim young Batman with a unique, unrecognizable rogue's gallery, The Love Syndicate of Dreamworld, including. The main idea is to make probabilistic predictions. It is stated that most of this Earth's Legends have retired and one died. The reality tried to replace Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, but continued efforts to become the Trinity by the spellcasters made the reality inherently unstable, with a rapidly changing history. 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. Originally, there was no consistency regarding "numbered" Earthsthey would be either spelled out as words or use numbers, even within the same story. 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. As the Cold War was brewing between the world's superpowers, a mysterious object from space crashed into Kansas. Dark Crisis Makes DC's Best Alternate Timelines Part of the Mainstream Multiverse Recent Elseworlds Are Confirmed To Be In The Multiverse. For example, "Crisis on Earth-Three!" 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 Flash's second season began to explore a shared multiverse with the appearance of Earth-2, while the series' titular character also crossed over with the parallel universe home to Supergirl (later designated Earth-38). The Arrowverse will continue after Crisis. Some of these skins come with different powers and voice actors. Crucially, the predictions do not depend on the initial conditions. In the first, one day no more babies are born, but every sleeper experiment that has begun eventually finishes. 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. The Green Lantern of Earth-12 is a descendant of Hal Jordan. On this Earth, Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and Jimmy Olsen tried to create their own superhero using thought-powered technology. So it might be natural to guess that you are waking from a short nap. This Earth is known to have Blight, hence H.R. An Earth where, since the Justice League did such a good job of fighting crime, their children and sidekicks have nothing really to do. Loki is the Avenger Prime, as his true magical form is revealed as he plays an important role in the greatest fight for the Marvel 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? We still find ourselves making absurd predictions. Etrigan bonded with Jason Blood, the son of a Midwestern preacher, who uses the demon's powers and physical form to fight crime. Otherwise, we would be Boltzmann brains. We see brown shoes and what look to be Jeans. Its dangerous to take a long nap in the second option, because you might be killed by a meteor while sleeping. It is unknown what exactly caused its desolation, though, A reality where the Justice League are a brutal force that maintains order on Earth. We were so excited (and worried that someone else would have the same idea) that we wrote our paper in just two days after Pages paper appeared. And though Oliver Queen is dead, the mantle of Arrow has been passed down to his daughter, who will also be getting her own spin-off show. Then we calculate what happens when the time becomes arbitrarily large. Berkeley and I were thrilled to realize that we could turn the problem on its head. Berkeley and then Alan Guth at MIT. But then we still find ourselves making absurd predictions. Webcrisis ( krass) n, pl -ses ( -siz) 1. a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something, esp in a sequence of events or a disease 2. an unstable period, esp one of extreme trouble or danger in politics, economics, etc 3. The second option on our list is that the universe has an infinite number of states available to it. In the "With A Vengeance!" 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. [159] Characters within this storyline are stated as originating from beyond the core New 52 Multiverse that has been depicted until now and contains Dark Knight Batman analogues of the Flash, Doomsday, Aquawoman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Cyborg and the Joker. In many ways, the number of Worlds is now infinite. Right now, we dont have one. This Earth's Justice League is composed of marshals operating in the Wild West. This is not a new situation in physics. ", "The Flash Recap with Spoilers: Barry Faces Off With Thawne in "The Exorcism of Nash Wells", "Legends of Tomorrow recap: Star City 2046", "Crisis on Infinite Earths Makes a Major Legends of Tomorrow Retcon", "I'll admit it: I'm in a dry spell. An Earth formed out of a (relatively) brief merging of the, A world based on the drug culture that appeared briefly in Grant Morrison's, This Earth was created by Alexander Luthor Jr. during, The Earth that Pariah came from was never officially named. The very best reason to believe this type of argument is that Steven Weinberg of the University of Texas at Austin used it to successfully predict the value of the cosmological constant a decade before it was observed. Thomas, Roy(w),Hoberg, Rick(p),Collins, Bill(i). 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. 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. Appeared, retroactively, as an alternate Earth in the "Crisis on Infinite Earths" tie-in comic. She then had herself surgically altered to gain Atlantean powers. [160], The NBC series Powerless (2017), which aired alongside the Arrowverse series, has been informally referred to by its producers as existing on "Earth-P". Who's Who Too! 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. It later faced a catastrophic battle against the Monitors that destroyed most of the planet. DC began the exploration of the multiverse long before Marvel. The Monitor first appeared in 2018s crossover Elseworlds, Re-established as an alternate universe in "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Five". He can be found most days actively dismantling the rules of a local TTRPG and can be reached at ben.b@cbr.com. An Earth of pulp characters, both derived from classic DC characters and also drawing on classic literary pulp characters. 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. And indeed many people have criticized the multiverse concept on just these grounds. Once the theory becomes well-defined by making the total number of people finite, probability questions have unique, sensible answers. Appeared, retroactively, as an alternate universe in "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Three". Lead image: Hubble Space Telescope image of the Egg Nebula. Although we cannot possibly keep track of the motion of all the individual molecules, we can make extremely precise predictions for how the gas as a whole will behave. The major problem we faced is that, since the volume of space grows without bound, the number of observers observing any given thing is infinite, making it difficult to characterize which events are more or less likely to occur. If the coin came up tails, the experimenters instruct their descendants to wake you up after 50 billion years. Our universe is intricately structured, so it is analogous to a gas that clusters in one corner of a boxa state that is far from equilibrium. Dadnapped 2: The Secondary Trap (The Muppets Style), Hatching Pete 2: The Roosters Vs. Then you are put into a cryogenic freezer. On this Earth, Kal-L's rocket landed in Germany, where he was raised by Adolf Hitler, and helped Germany win World War II. The Anti-Monitor saved the Dark Angel, just as the Monitor had saved her good counterpart Harbinger. This understanding could take one of three forms. [30] Each of the alternate universes have their own parallel dimensions, divergent timelines, microverses, etc., branching off of them. Berkeley and then Alan Guth at MIT. 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). 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. These hopes now appear to have been hopelessly nave. A key simplification allows us to do this. The existence of extraterrestrials was common knowledge for decades. 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 Our job is to develop a similar statistical understanding of events in the multiverse. In this context, we can only make statistical predictions. Where Are The Image Comics Founders Today? [31], The Guardians of the Universe serve as protectors of the new Multiverse. He was a Ph.D student of Leonard Susskind at Stanford University and a postdoc under the guidance of Raphael Bousso at U.C. Fate" would appear and that he had written a great deal of backstory for this Earth. Eventually all of the particles will accidentally cluster in one corner of the box. A crucial assumption in Boltzmanns argument is that there are only a finite (if very large) number of molecular configurations. But since far more people started the experiment in 2015 than in 1916 (always 1 percent of the population), the vast majority of people who wake up in 2016 slept for a short time. A conflict called the War of the Americas happened sometime during the 20th Century, where Zolomon's father James fought. On this Earth, young Bruce Wayne became a Green Lantern immediately following the death of his parents. So the number of sleeper experiments beginning at any given time is always increasing. 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This Earth's Etrigan is a demon from the planet Kamelot who was sent to Earth by the wizard Merlin. This article was originally published onNautilus Cosmosin January 2017. Dinosaur versions of DC Comics characters. Wells, is a French poet, Seen on Jay Garrick's Multiverse map. This Harrison Wells is an adventurer who would later become a ". In Boltzmann and Schuetzs theory, it would be far, far more likely to produce our solar system without bothering to make all of the other stars in the universe. [215] Ezra Miller's Barry Allen from the DC Extended Universe makes a cameo appearance in "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Four". Appeared, retroactively, as an alternate Earth in "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part One", during which it was destroyed by an anti-matter wave. According to Gideon, there are about 3.725 trillion changes to reality as a result of the Crisis. In this case we know how to make predictions, because after a while the multiverse forgets about the unknown initial conditions. The Justice League, Merlin and King Arthur resolved the situation and restored Earth-One and Magic-Land to their respective original universes, This universe has various derivations, explained as manifestations of, This Earth is dubbed "Earth 2" by the Antimatter Universe's Lex Luthor, who dubs his own Earth "Earth 1", This Earth was destroyed and then recreated due to the events of, In 1940, various female DC heroes and villains are enlisted to fight in World War II, Was visited by Prime Earth's Harley Quinn, who drove that reality's Hitler to commit suicide, An Earth formed out of the Atom's dreams by Dr. Destiny, where the JLI were militaristic fascists, An Earth where the entire continent, except for Gotham City (renamed "the Garden"), is a wasteland, There are many contradictions within and between the animated TV series and comic books, The Fourth World is a continuum inhabited by the New Gods. This experiment is unusual even by the standards of theoretical physics. If our state of delusion lasts long enough for this article to appear, you can safely discard the theory. Instead, the point is that our recipe for calculating probabilities accidentally injected a novel type of catastrophe into the theory. Cisco Ramon briefly made contact with this universe. A Mirror version of McCulloch started an invasion from there using various duplicates before being stopped by Team Flash. While humanity is extinct in this universe, alternate versions of extraterrestrial characters such as, This entire universe was wiped out by a battle between the, Nix Uotan successfully recreated his universe, at first making it resemble Earth-0, except that certain people, including the Challengers from Beyond, had never existed there. We imagined that the underlying physical laws would explain why the mass of the Higgs particle must be 125 gigaelectron-volts, as was recently discovered, and not any other value, and also make predictions for new particles that are yet to be discovered. Infinite Crisis: Fight for the Multiverse Vol. Whereas our present theories take the prior state of the universe as an input, a theory of initial conditions would have to give this state as an output. On this world, Bryce Wayne mass-murdered all metahumans in revenge for the death of her lover, Sylvester Kyle. This Earth is home to the Society of Super-Heroes, a group of 'pulp'-style mystery men led by Doc Fate (an alternate version of, This Earth is visited for some time by Earth-0's, This Earth is home to black versions of DC characters; including Superman (who is President of the United States) and Wonder Woman, and a version of Brainiac called Brainiac: Vathlo Prime, The Wonder Woman of this Earth is named Nubia, hailing from the island of Amazonia, where its inhabitants, the Wonder Women, have brought anti-war technology to the world, This Earth's Batman is a dark vigilante who fights against crime and corruption, while Superman is a federal agent for the government, Bruce Wayne becomes this Earth's Green Lantern instead of Hal Jordan. ", Superman and Lois Lane are married on this Earth, An Earth where Superman and Batman have sons, but Superman's son appears to be misusing his powers, Sir Bruce of Waynesmoor, a.k.a. A lot more experiments started a year ago than 50 billion years ago, so most of the people waking up today were asleep for a short time. 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. These hopes nowappear to have been hopelessly nave. I now realize Heisenberg and Schrdinger are less like physicists and more like therapists. This Earth appeared to be technologically less advanced than Earth-Two, with Dazam's navy using oar-powered ships. A spell that was to replace Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman as the Trinity of New Earth was corrupted, resulting in a major alteration of New Earth's history. One of the Snarts (Leonard, Lisa or Lewis) is Mayor of Central City. Additionally, references within the series pointed to versions of Justice League members having existed in that universe. New Movie News, Movie Trailers & upcoming Movie Reviews, Dark Crisis Brought Back the Multiverse - And DC's Greatest Potential, Batman Agrees: Nightwing Is DC's Most Important Superhero, Dark Crisis' Finale Reveals Why Deathstroke Wants to Destroy the Entire Multiverse, 10 Ways A.X.E. Teenaged versions of DC Comics characters in high school, Medieval versions of DC Comics characters, Wonder Queen, Wonder Woman, Wonder Girl, Wonder Tot, Earth-0 counterpart heroes are villains, and vice versa, Superman Red, Superman Blue, Batman Blue, Batman Gray, Superman and, later, Batman are divided into two separate beings, Werewolf versions of DC Comics characters. Lucifer's cameo is set during the five-year period before the events of his series. The multiverse offers an answer. 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