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SATAN AND PERPENDICULAR WORLDS 73<br />
those where all inhabitants believe in God, and everything in between. According<br />
to the many-worlds theory, there could be universes where Jesus was the son<br />
of God, universes where Jesus was the son of the devil, and universes where<br />
Jesus did not exist. (See Addendum.)<br />
Much of Everett's many-worlds interpretation is concerned with events on<br />
the submicroscopic level. For example, the theory predicts that every time an<br />
electron either moves or fails to move to a new energy level, a new universe is<br />
created. Currently, it is not clear the degree to which quantum (submicroscopic)<br />
theories impact on reality at the macroscopic, human level. Quantum<br />
theory even clashes with relativity theory, which forbids faster-than-light<br />
(FTL) transfer of information. For example, quantum theory introduces an<br />
element of uncertainty into our understanding of the universe and states that<br />
any two particles that have once been in contact continue to influence each<br />
other, no matter how far apart they move, until one of them interacts or is<br />
observed. In a strange way, this suggests that the entire universe is multiply<br />
connected by FTL signals. Physicists call this type of interaction "cosmic glue."<br />
The holy grail of physics is the reconciling of quantum and relativistic physics.<br />
What exactly is quantum theory? First, it is a modern science of the very<br />
small. It accurately describes the behavior of elementary particles, atoms, molecules,<br />
atom-sized black holes, and probably the birth of the universe when the<br />
universe was smaller than a proton. For more than a half-century, physicists<br />
have used quantum theory as a mathematical tool for describing the behavior<br />
of matter (electrons, protons, neutrons . . . ) and various fields (gravity, weak<br />
and strong nuclear forces, and electromagnetism). It's a practical theory used to<br />
understand the behavior of devices ranging from lasers to computer chips.<br />
Quantum theory describes the world as a collection of possibilities until a measurement<br />
makes one of these possibilities real. Quantum particles seem to be<br />
able to influence one another via quantum connections—superluminal links<br />
persisting between any two particles once they have interacted. When these<br />
ultrafast connections were first proposed, physicists dismissed them as mere<br />
theoretical artifacts, existing only in mathematical formalisms, not in the real<br />
world. Albert Einstein considered the idea to be so crazy that it had to demonstrate<br />
there was something missing in quantum theory. In the late 1960s, however,<br />
Irish physicist John Stewart Bell proved that a quantum connection was<br />
more than an interesting mathematical theory. In particular, he showed that<br />
real superluminal links between quantum particles explain certain experimental<br />
results. Bell's theorem suggests that after two particles interact and move<br />
apart outside the range of interaction, the particles continue to influence each