I think I read someone's journal that recommended this movie (The One w/ Jet Li). I got to see it last night and thankfully, I went in with low expectations (I've heard bad things about it, namely the plot). It was entertaining (great fight scenes), I'll say that - it at least gave me & my friend material to talk about over dinner.
I don't want to spoil anything about the movie if you go & see it ... BUT I do have to say that the premise of the movie is that there's a multiverse with multiple parallel universes. I've heard this theory before (btw, that reminds me of a great book if you haven't read it already - Timeline by Michael Crichton), but in the movie, instead of there being infinite parallel universes, there were only 125. Huh? Where'd they even get that number?
Hollywood...
Jason
Therefore, for the modern moviegoer, infinity = 125.
I'm sure lots of interesting conclusions could be drawn using the ratio 125/infinity to determine how watered down a technical subject has become in a movie.
I think it's also nice of the movie industry to do what the mathematical world has been unwilling to for so long! Finally, we can replace infinity in all those equations!
Re:125
ziggy on 2001-11-29T20:25:44
I don't know about that....There are probably exactly 127 parallel universes (2^7 - 1; who said that all of creation was supposed to be 8-bit clean?). For reasons we don't fully understand, universe 0 is a purely theoretical construct, and one of the other universes may have winked out in a fit of illogic.
Ergo, there are exactly 125 parallel universes. QED.
:-)
