I know I’m not unique by really enjoying this content but this is exactly what I want my videos to be at quality wise. The humor mixed with the information was beyond perfect
Quantum Leap was a multiverse show. He jumps into a forked timeline, and has to correct it before the TVA prunes it (I presume, the effects of failure were never made clear).
Strictly speaking, The Chronicles of Narnia are an early example of a multiverse, as both our universe and Narnia are explicitly shown to be just two of many worlds, connected by an in-between dimension called The Woods Between The Worlds.
@@voradorhylden3410 It's always funny to me when there's like a specific number of alternate universes. "Oh so there's an infinite number of alternate realities reflecting the infinite possibilities of creation?" "No, there's like, eleven. If you don't like Pirate Universe, too bad, that's all the Pirate Universe you get."
@@tonyanthony5105 that actually happened to me with hbomberguy when his video about OOF released. I hadn't watched his videos in a couple years and he hadn't uploaded in more than a year and I just wanted to watch his Dark Souls 2 at bloodborne videos, and when I opened his channel, it said he had uploaded 45 minutes ago. And then we ended up getting the plagiarism video shortly after. (I may have the order those videos released backwards. I'm too lazy to Google it right now) It felt like Divine Providence.
10:05 so different way using the word dimension. One as another universe with its own laws and one as other directions one can move around in. You can relate the two ideas with a brane-world type scenario, but they are distinct ideas. Each brane is fixed to some point in those extra directions leaving only our usual 4 for space-time. The particles and everything they make up like us being confined to that one brane. Another such universe being a different neighboring brane. Branes are the where the strings can terminate leaving just an end point. The reason for those extra dimensions is about making the theory consistent. There are other ways to do it. You need the right conformal anomaly cancelation number and 6 extra dimensions is such an example. Other reasons for this choice require even more explanation.
Like the one where the Sliders gang end up in a world that is basically ALL FIRE ALL THE TIME and bring a being of living fire to a different universe.
Okay, there's only three possibilities. Either Swaim was always much smarter than he appeared in every other video, or he somehow became much smarter over the past few years--both very unlikely-- hence, the only logical conclusion is that Swaim has swapped with a much smarter body double from an alternate universe.
Well remember, the original SWAIM was a robot, and SWAIM was just a constantly changing-occasionally recursive-acronym. But that means SOMEONE had to build the Swaimbot, perhaps this is the mad scientist responsible for that brilliant feat of engineering?!
All jokes aside though, Swain has always had that foolish genius athing about him. Everyone at cracked was obsessively obsessive. Almost like they were on... 😮
I did look it up, Michael. And you're right, I shouldn't have looked up "parallelly," because its spelling just looks wrong. My brain tells me the adverb of parallel should be "parallellily" or "parallellaly."
This episode has the best science so far. No notes. Swaim might not be a "real" scientist. But he is the next best thing, a youtube science communicator.
In fairness, Everything Everywhere All At Once explained that all the universes being experienced by the main character are neighbors where the protagonist lived a similar life, because larger jumps cause more damage to the participant. Even the sillier universes still at least have a person with a similar look, name, etc., because that's how the in-universe tech works.
I like the idea that dark matter is just other universes interacting with ours via gravity, the subtle interactions creates huge structures like galaxies in roughly the same place(s) on the macro scale, but don't have enough effect for us to see it on our scale.
I wish you would have explained, that in MWI that our perception of a wave function collapse, that we become entangled with it, and now exist in a larger wave function. Also understand that these other worlds have to be possible and their language is that of probability fields, and so most other “universes” would look incredibly similar to our own.
@ if so, it’s reasonable then that there’s a reality that can destroy all other realities, so since everything is possible, it’s possible that everything is destroyed, so that nothing is possible. In other words, utter nonsense.
@ not only that, but media has conditioned you to think these realities actually exist, which MWI does not say, this is entanglement with probability fields. Conservation of energy cannot be violated, there is only one universe but the wave function has been extended whenever wave collapse is observed.
If you think of the multiverse as branches, it makes sense that nearby universes would be similar as they split more recently. Energy to travel to neighboring universes is a lot less than it would take to go somewhere radically different from our own.
Physicists have latched on to the idea that the extra dimensions are small and curled up so that we can't interact with them (like the dimension of circumference on a wire that could be significant for something small enough but not for us at our normal size) but my thought is that maybe our three spatial dimensions are the small ones and time and other spatial dimensions are the big ones. Like, we're a bug who can walk around and around the wire but don't have any way to access the length of the wire, or can only access it by limited spiraling around and around the circumference at an angle so that we never return to the same spot (in this analogy, the length of the wire is our time dimension). Or one of my favorites from _A Wrinkle In Time_ a fish in a river might have three dimensions of travel within the water but have to travel the long way around the various meanders, but no access at all to the world above the surface where they could cut across the narrow spits of land that separate two points because the river folds in on itself.
That always made sense to me. Like, relatively speaking, all realities are in the nooks and crannies of other realities. Perhaps certain supernatural phenomena are when different planes bleed into each other.
I like "brane collision theory" as an explanation for quantum phenomena. Two universes with slightly different sets of physical laws collide, which causes both universes to "reset" into one universe that obeys both sets of rules put together. If true, this could take Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems to a crazy place where the universal laws themselves contain contradictions and/or unprovable facts.
@@marc21256 I have no idea. But we're also bumping up against instrument sensitivity limits trying to prove that the other dimensions are small in ours. So, we have problems either direction.
Brought up the Dark Tower, yes; but he barely mentioned that it was a series and used clips taken from that travesty of a film. Lol. But does it really give you hope about literacy when they mention The Dark Tower? Why not when someone mentions reading the news? Or a text book? Or an email or text? Or is it really that the Dark Tower tickles your pickle, and you just didn't want to seem weird, so you had to qualify your statement?
@@bufordhighwater9872 considering half those things can be done on social media, and people are illiterate as f**k there, those are not great examples of literacy; have you seen how often the Internet thinks 'loose' is the same word as 'lose' ? I die inside constantly because of that. And the most well known book series is Harry Potter, which frankly is absolute garbage in terms of the quality of writing. (I remember trying to start book 4 after a certain age and thinking "Wow. This is absolutely written for young adults. ") Frankly, I'm happy any time a relatively obscure book series is mentioned, because it shows people have read and enjoyed more than what is fed to them in high school or constantly talked about by mainstream media. Like for example he could have also mentioned Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and I would have made pretty much the same comment. (Though that would have been an odd reference given the topic) I just enjoy when people go out of their way to read books people rarely talk about, and even more so when it's a series because that shows investment and not just something they picked up because they are bored at an airport or something. Qualify that. 🤪
Thankyou so much for coming back, i miss after hours so much, you guys were the best while i was growing up, love you swaim you beautiful beast of a man
having been forced from their home dimension, cats are constantly trying to get back there by the same activities that sent them here in the first place: chasing lasers, interacting with vibrating strings, and laying around being observed
Terry Pratchett has a lesser-known book series called The Long Earth, a multiverse story where none of the alternate Earth’s have human life, many have no life at all, and multiversal travelers have to be careful when exploring new Earths because it’s entirely likely they might step into an Earth without a breathable atmosphere or just empty space where an Earth never formed.
Here's the thing with infinity: More than just infinite universes with slight variations, there's also going to be infinite alternate versions of our Universe that are exactly the same. Even more than that, if you were in a Universe that was infinitely big, you wouldn't even have to go to a different universe to find an exact copy of our local space time within it. You'd just have to pick a direction and travel in a straight line for infinite time.
Your idea of seeing a "small chunk" of "multiversal neighbors" is explicitly referenced in Star Trek. The Mirror universe (aka the Terran Empire universe) is depicted as being easy to cross into and out of *because* its history and population are very similar to the main Star Trek timeline. When a character from that universe is in the 29th century, it is pointed out to her that, after the Terran Empire collapsed, the two universes diverged. No one had crossed over in several hundred years due to the two timelines diverging more. This caused them to functionally become more separate and harder to move between. In fact, it started to have destructive physical effects on the Mirror character, whose atoms tried to return to the universe whose quantum state they match, but which they can no longer reach, which was slowly killing her.
The idea that anything that can happen does happen is actually kind of terrifying, as it means free will is an illusion. For instance, you have a choice to turn left or turn right and you turn right. If you are actually doing both, then there is no choice, you just happen to be randomly in the universe where you turned right. The exact same you also got put randomly in the universe where you turned left. So all your choices are just random, no matter how purposeful they might seem to us.
4:30 - Something that bugs me about the split timeline of "Ocarina of Time" is that, for one, it implies 3D Zelda games are actually hard enough to die in, since one of the timeline splits is a result of Link being defeated by Ganon. I personally think a better way of writing it could be that, when Link went back in time to inform Zelda of Ganondorf's upcoming crimes, Link actually abandoned the timeline he came from, thereby dooming the world of that timeline, since they now lacked their own Hero of Time. But hey, I don't work for Nintendo, and the damage is done, so I'm really just babbling into the void.
"A brave little theory, and actually quite coherent too, for a system of five, or seven dimensions... if only we lived in one." -Academician Prokhor Zaharev, "Now We Are Alone" Sorry, I've been playing a lot of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri lately.
Indigo knows what it did. It's the only one that's not a primary (RYB) or secondary (OGV). Indigo was added to make ROYGBiV sound more like a word, but it's a FRAUD.
A couple of things... the intro music slaps. I would love to know what it is, or if it's available anywhere... Next, obviously, the OG Cracked team was a national treasure. DNC was the reason I started watching Cracked, and Micheal was one of the earliest Cracked features. That shit was built on his shoulders. He was the perfect trope on After Hours. Thank you for this, S.W.A.I.M. It's entertainment and nostalgia all in one white lab coat package.
For what it's worth I said that "this show sliders really gets it right!" Thirty years ago. A few years after that I said no one could ever love Huckabee and Mark whalberf can suck it. I'll fight him any day. Actually, he can't suck it, I wouldn't like that.
There have been some interesting takes on multiverses in fantasy...Piers Anthony wrote the Mode series that played around with the idea of different universes, called modes, existing independently of each other, but able to be traversed using a virtual mode that intersects all the modes connected by people who serve as anchors across five different modes. Those people serving as anchors can then traverse those modes. When one of them gives up being an anchor, the virtual mode slides into chaos until another person agrees to be an anchor and then a new virtual mode forms. It's way more complicated than that, and the rules are more arbitrary than logic driven, and the quality of writing is inconsistent at best, especially over time given that this was the beginning of Anthony's decline as a writer, but the concept stuck with me for over 30 years. My favorite, though, is the Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny because the rules are much clearer and consistent. There is an anchor, a primal foundational world called Amber, and in between Amber and the Courts of Chaos are all the shadows of Amber, including our world. The actual anchor point is the Pattern, a magical construct that was drawn using a primal magical force, and this holds all the realities together. Without it, everything would exist within chaos. Close to Amber, all the shadows are similar to Amber, where magic is the norm, and the farther away you get in shadow, things get increasingly bizarre, especially the closer you get to the Courts of Chaos. Somewhere in between is our world, where science is the norm instead of magic. And then as you approach the Courts, magic becomes normal again.
I love that these newer videos all serve as proof that Swaim was so good at playing dumb all these years because, in reality, he's actually pretty dang smart.
Well in Everything Everywhere All At Once you can only jump into realities that have a version of you, and the less that universe differs from yours the easier it is to jump to it (though both the portagonist and antagonist were able to basically ignore that second limit, but not the first). It is why killing the antagonist's alter would save your universe from the antagonist. Granted in the universe where life didn't exist on earth a rock was somehow considered a version of you.
If multiverse exists then it would be for sure the only law of physics that can't be broken (or already has) as far as we would be able to tell with our current understanding.
Swaim alone has me watching Cracked again.
literally
Me, too, dude. Me too.
I agree
Hey, I know that guy 😊
Didn't they go their own way?
Roger has his own channel.
I dont know if Cracked bringing my friend back will work but it's worth a try. Yes Michael. You are my best friend
I know I’m not unique by really enjoying this content but this is exactly what I want my videos to be at quality wise. The humor mixed with the information was beyond perfect
Swim never disappoints.
I really appreciate his work.
@@Logan7281X Ahh, you must be referring to Swaim's alternate.
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I dunno about BEYOND perfect, but it was definitely perfect 😅
Michael Swaim is awesome
S-tier script for this video and masterfully delivered. Swaim's still got it.
Best part of cracked. Bringing back the good staff you had prior was definitely the move
I will have you know there are dozens of us who have nostalgia for Sliders. DOZENS!
Hey slidehards!
Sliders was my first Multi-verse media
Quantum Leap was a multiverse show. He jumps into a forked timeline, and has to correct it before the TVA prunes it (I presume, the effects of failure were never made clear).
That was more physics than I was expecting and I am here for it!
Strictly speaking, The Chronicles of Narnia are an early example of a multiverse, as both our universe and Narnia are explicitly shown to be just two of many worlds, connected by an in-between dimension called The Woods Between The Worlds.
That might as well be the Norse idea of Midguard, Asguard, Jotunheim, Niflheim, Muspelheim etc., all connected by Yggdrasil
I always go back to and picture "the one" when multiverses are mentioned. Not the first or best, but its the first thing that pops in my head.
@@voradorhylden3410 It's always funny to me when there's like a specific number of alternate universes. "Oh so there's an infinite number of alternate realities reflecting the infinite possibilities of creation?"
"No, there's like, eleven. If you don't like Pirate Universe, too bad, that's all the Pirate Universe you get."
I’m just glad my universe’s Swaim knows to always go out on a banger
5:00 That's also the explanation in Everything Everywhere All At Once. When they move outside the local cluster things get weird.
Man I love the way this man delivers lines. Such a joy to watch.
I'm so glad that you're back, Mike.
Swaim is the light at the end of the tunnel of content and I've never been happier
Holy crap. I’ve been watching old cracked clips and just happened to click on this and when I saw 1 hour ago was shocked
That's a beautiful thing
exact thing happened in this universe, to me!
@@tonyanthony5105 that actually happened to me with hbomberguy when his video about OOF released. I hadn't watched his videos in a couple years and he hadn't uploaded in more than a year and I just wanted to watch his Dark Souls 2 at bloodborne videos, and when I opened his channel, it said he had uploaded 45 minutes ago. And then we ended up getting the plagiarism video shortly after. (I may have the order those videos released backwards. I'm too lazy to Google it right now)
It felt like Divine Providence.
I miss this!
Same 🤣🤣
More Michael Swaim please.
Love the layers in that outro!
10:05 so different way using the word dimension. One as another universe with its own laws and one as other directions one can move around in. You can relate the two ideas with a brane-world type scenario, but they are distinct ideas. Each brane is fixed to some point in those extra directions leaving only our usual 4 for space-time. The particles and everything they make up like us being confined to that one brane. Another such universe being a different neighboring brane. Branes are the where the strings can terminate leaving just an end point. The reason for those extra dimensions is about making the theory consistent. There are other ways to do it. You need the right conformal anomaly cancelation number and 6 extra dimensions is such an example. Other reasons for this choice require even more explanation.
Fringe was a fun dip into the parallel (but-with-some-dystopian-differences) universe. It even had Mr Nemoy showing up in the other world.
I have said the phrase "sliders really got it right" several times in my life and I have been correct every time.
Like the one where the Sliders gang end up in a world that is basically ALL FIRE ALL THE TIME and bring a being of living fire to a different universe.
5:33 i liked sliders
Came here to see a Sliders reference. My favorite "adult show" as a kid.
Okay, there's only three possibilities. Either Swaim was always much smarter than he appeared in every other video, or he somehow became much smarter over the past few years--both very unlikely-- hence, the only logical conclusion is that Swaim has swapped with a much smarter body double from an alternate universe.
Well remember, the original SWAIM was a robot, and SWAIM was just a constantly changing-occasionally recursive-acronym.
But that means SOMEONE had to build the Swaimbot, perhaps this is the mad scientist responsible for that brilliant feat of engineering?!
All jokes aside though, Swain has always had that foolish genius athing about him. Everyone at cracked was obsessively obsessive. Almost like they were on... 😮
Well for those of us that are long term viewers you'll understand that "Micheal" here has the formula for cold fusion memorized
Just found this after binge watching all of the old CrackedTv and DNC vids. Could not be any more happy to see Swaim back!
In this universe, I’m always excited to see a new Swaim video! I missed these
Good job Michael Swaim . Thank you for taking all those equations and theories and breaking them down
I absolutely have not forgotten about 'Stay Tuned' and it's stars. I love that movie.
I did look it up, Michael. And you're right, I shouldn't have looked up "parallelly," because its spelling just looks wrong. My brain tells me the adverb of parallel should be "parallellily" or "parallellaly."
Parably.
Lmao
Reminds me of how the word "friendlily" always weirds me out. I accept it as technically correct, but it's so *weird*.
Some universes say violet but indigo knows what it did❤
Michael Swaim is drawn to making heady list video series in every timeline, much to my enjoyment.
2:56 *Hey! I like that movie! A: An animated sequence in the style of Tex Avery and 2: A brief reference to "Three's Company".*
This episode has the best science so far. No notes. Swaim might not be a "real" scientist. But he is the next best thing, a youtube science communicator.
Loving the content Michael 🤘
Unrelated Fact because you brought up Stay Tuned; I watch Stay Tuned EVERY time my Internet is down for more than 2 hours 🤣🤣
In fairness, Everything Everywhere All At Once explained that all the universes being experienced by the main character are neighbors where the protagonist lived a similar life, because larger jumps cause more damage to the participant. Even the sillier universes still at least have a person with a similar look, name, etc., because that's how the in-universe tech works.
Never change Swaim. In this dimension or the next. Or do change. It's your life. Either way, you're amazing in every dimension.
Mind blown!!! Stay tuned was a favorite growing up and I never thought that the different channels could be different realities
I like the idea that dark matter is just other universes interacting with ours via gravity, the subtle interactions creates huge structures like galaxies in roughly the same place(s) on the macro scale, but don't have enough effect for us to see it on our scale.
"what's - like - up with that? ---Science wise..."
I will be using this from now on thank you ❤
Stay Tuned, what a classic
Thanks for exposing the science fiction in mainstream science.
You look good Mike!
00:21
I love this man
This video is exactly what I needed today.
I wish you would have explained, that in MWI that our perception of a wave function collapse, that we become entangled with it, and now exist in a larger wave function. Also understand that these other worlds have to be possible and their language is that of probability fields, and so most other “universes” would look incredibly similar to our own.
In infinite realities, all things are possible.
@ lol, no
@ if so, it’s reasonable then that there’s a reality that can destroy all other realities, so since everything is possible, it’s possible that everything is destroyed, so that nothing is possible. In other words, utter nonsense.
@ not only that, but media has conditioned you to think these realities actually exist, which MWI does not say, this is entanglement with probability fields. Conservation of energy cannot be violated, there is only one universe but the wave function has been extended whenever wave collapse is observed.
@@dustinhaas8538 cool, cool, cool, cool.
If you think of the multiverse as branches, it makes sense that nearby universes would be similar as they split more recently. Energy to travel to neighboring universes is a lot less than it would take to go somewhere radically different from our own.
So glad Swaim is back 🎉
Sooo glad to have my Swaim fix. I missed him during the radio silence of the original cracked crew ( other than Cody on his showdey).
SWAIM!! He's back.
Physicists have latched on to the idea that the extra dimensions are small and curled up so that we can't interact with them (like the dimension of circumference on a wire that could be significant for something small enough but not for us at our normal size) but my thought is that maybe our three spatial dimensions are the small ones and time and other spatial dimensions are the big ones. Like, we're a bug who can walk around and around the wire but don't have any way to access the length of the wire, or can only access it by limited spiraling around and around the circumference at an angle so that we never return to the same spot (in this analogy, the length of the wire is our time dimension). Or one of my favorites from _A Wrinkle In Time_ a fish in a river might have three dimensions of travel within the water but have to travel the long way around the various meanders, but no access at all to the world above the surface where they could cut across the narrow spits of land that separate two points because the river folds in on itself.
That always made sense to me. Like, relatively speaking, all realities are in the nooks and crannies of other realities. Perhaps certain supernatural phenomena are when different planes bleed into each other.
I like "brane collision theory" as an explanation for quantum phenomena. Two universes with slightly different sets of physical laws collide, which causes both universes to "reset" into one universe that obeys both sets of rules put together. If true, this could take Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems to a crazy place where the universal laws themselves contain contradictions and/or unprovable facts.
How could they prove we aren't a folded dimension in someone else's big universe?
@@marc21256 I have no idea. But we're also bumping up against instrument sensitivity limits trying to prove that the other dimensions are small in ours. So, we have problems either direction.
There's a lot of science to get pedantic about in this video but... it's Michael, so... nice !
Swaim still the king❤ glad to see you back
It always tickles my pickle when a video brings up The Dark Tower. Perhaps because it gives me hope that literacy is not dead (yet)
well, at least not amongst us lit majors...
Brought up the Dark Tower, yes; but he barely mentioned that it was a series and used clips taken from that travesty of a film. Lol.
But does it really give you hope about literacy when they mention The Dark Tower? Why not when someone mentions reading the news? Or a text book? Or an email or text? Or is it really that the Dark Tower tickles your pickle, and you just didn't want to seem weird, so you had to qualify your statement?
@@bufordhighwater9872 considering half those things can be done on social media, and people are illiterate as f**k there, those are not great examples of literacy; have you seen how often the Internet thinks 'loose' is the same word as 'lose' ? I die inside constantly because of that.
And the most well known book series is Harry Potter, which frankly is absolute garbage in terms of the quality of writing. (I remember trying to start book 4 after a certain age and thinking "Wow. This is absolutely written for young adults. ")
Frankly, I'm happy any time a relatively obscure book series is mentioned, because it shows people have read and enjoyed more than what is fed to them in high school or constantly talked about by mainstream media. Like for example he could have also mentioned Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and I would have made pretty much the same comment. (Though that would have been an odd reference given the topic)
I just enjoy when people go out of their way to read books people rarely talk about, and even more so when it's a series because that shows investment and not just something they picked up because they are bored at an airport or something.
Qualify that. 🤪
He stands. He is true.
Love it, keep them coming!!
Loved this!
Thankyou so much for coming back, i miss after hours so much, you guys were the best while i was growing up, love you swaim you beautiful beast of a man
Who ever thought we’d live in a universe where MICHEAL SWAIM of all people was coherently teaching people the MWI and string theory?
great content. Nice mixed of old school cracked with a new pop science educational twist.
having been forced from their home dimension, cats are constantly trying to get back there by the same activities that sent them here in the first place: chasing lasers, interacting with vibrating strings, and laying around being observed
Stay Tuned is one of my favorite little hidden gems.
I discovered you through behind the bastards, true datay. Solid video, and highly entertaining.
I had no idea Swaim was back here. He has single handledly made me return to Cracked.
Absolutely loving these, by the way, Swaim + Cracked will always be good. Someone just gift him the channel and watch the success happen
Terry Pratchett has a lesser-known book series called The Long Earth, a multiverse story where none of the alternate Earth’s have human life, many have no life at all, and multiversal travelers have to be careful when exploring new Earths because it’s entirely likely they might step into an Earth without a breathable atmosphere or just empty space where an Earth never formed.
Michael, you look really healthy and happy. I'm really happy for you.
Here's the thing with infinity: More than just infinite universes with slight variations, there's also going to be infinite alternate versions of our Universe that are exactly the same.
Even more than that, if you were in a Universe that was infinitely big, you wouldn't even have to go to a different universe to find an exact copy of our local space time within it. You'd just have to pick a direction and travel in a straight line for infinite time.
09:12 The color you're missing is not indigo (dark blue) but violet (purple).
Thanks, Michael 🙂
Michael Swain is the cooking timer to my own demise that I never thought I'd need it or would have
Your idea of seeing a "small chunk" of "multiversal neighbors" is explicitly referenced in Star Trek. The Mirror universe (aka the Terran Empire universe) is depicted as being easy to cross into and out of *because* its history and population are very similar to the main Star Trek timeline. When a character from that universe is in the 29th century, it is pointed out to her that, after the Terran Empire collapsed, the two universes diverged. No one had crossed over in several hundred years due to the two timelines diverging more. This caused them to functionally become more separate and harder to move between. In fact, it started to have destructive physical effects on the Mirror character, whose atoms tried to return to the universe whose quantum state they match, but which they can no longer reach, which was slowly killing her.
Love you Michael!❤
These are all amazing, outside of the "feels like he never actually 'answers' the video's title. WHAT 90'S SHOW???
The idea that anything that can happen does happen is actually kind of terrifying, as it means free will is an illusion.
For instance, you have a choice to turn left or turn right and you turn right. If you are actually doing both, then there is no choice, you just happen to be randomly in the universe where you turned right. The exact same you also got put randomly in the universe where you turned left. So all your choices are just random, no matter how purposeful they might seem to us.
4:30 - Something that bugs me about the split timeline of "Ocarina of Time" is that, for one, it implies 3D Zelda games are actually hard enough to die in, since one of the timeline splits is a result of Link being defeated by Ganon.
I personally think a better way of writing it could be that, when Link went back in time to inform Zelda of Ganondorf's upcoming crimes, Link actually abandoned the timeline he came from, thereby dooming the world of that timeline, since they now lacked their own Hero of Time.
But hey, I don't work for Nintendo, and the damage is done, so I'm really just babbling into the void.
I lolled at the Philip Rivers joke way too hard
That joke only exists for a handful of people, but that handful includes you and I
@@lvanderzyAgreed brother
@@lvanderzyagreed brother
Great video.
Swaim, if you don't bring back Escort Mission the multiverse will collapse. Save us
"A brave little theory, and actually quite coherent too, for a system of five, or seven dimensions... if only we lived in one." -Academician Prokhor Zaharev, "Now We Are Alone"
Sorry, I've been playing a lot of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri lately.
I'm sure you're having a lot of fun, SMAC forever! "For I have tasted the fruit"
Indigo knows what it did. It's the only one that's not a primary (RYB) or secondary (OGV). Indigo was added to make ROYGBiV sound more like a word, but it's a FRAUD.
Coherence is such a great film I stumbled upon. Which I later found out was mostly improvised by the actors. 🔥 🔥 🔥
Mike's back everybody!
A couple of things... the intro music slaps. I would love to know what it is, or if it's available anywhere...
Next, obviously, the OG Cracked team was a national treasure. DNC was the reason I started watching Cracked, and Micheal was one of the earliest Cracked features. That shit was built on his shoulders. He was the perfect trope on After Hours.
Thank you for this, S.W.A.I.M.
It's entertainment and nostalgia all in one white lab coat package.
For what it's worth I said that "this show sliders really gets it right!" Thirty years ago. A few years after that I said no one could ever love Huckabee and Mark whalberf can suck it. I'll fight him any day. Actually, he can't suck it, I wouldn't like that.
I remember this dude from like a decade ago. Looking young bro!
There have been some interesting takes on multiverses in fantasy...Piers Anthony wrote the Mode series that played around with the idea of different universes, called modes, existing independently of each other, but able to be traversed using a virtual mode that intersects all the modes connected by people who serve as anchors across five different modes. Those people serving as anchors can then traverse those modes. When one of them gives up being an anchor, the virtual mode slides into chaos until another person agrees to be an anchor and then a new virtual mode forms. It's way more complicated than that, and the rules are more arbitrary than logic driven, and the quality of writing is inconsistent at best, especially over time given that this was the beginning of Anthony's decline as a writer, but the concept stuck with me for over 30 years.
My favorite, though, is the Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny because the rules are much clearer and consistent. There is an anchor, a primal foundational world called Amber, and in between Amber and the Courts of Chaos are all the shadows of Amber, including our world. The actual anchor point is the Pattern, a magical construct that was drawn using a primal magical force, and this holds all the realities together. Without it, everything would exist within chaos. Close to Amber, all the shadows are similar to Amber, where magic is the norm, and the farther away you get in shadow, things get increasingly bizarre, especially the closer you get to the Courts of Chaos. Somewhere in between is our world, where science is the norm instead of magic. And then as you approach the Courts, magic becomes normal again.
this was a good one,
5:06, I knew Gary was right about the multiverse!
this is not the channel I was expecting to have a theory of everything discussion yet here we are
I just learned swaim is back on Cracked, so i re-subbed.
The urkel joke legit made me lol f.r. 9/10
I love that these newer videos all serve as proof that Swaim was so good at playing dumb all these years because, in reality, he's actually pretty dang smart.
The mind-wiping crew got laid off just like everybody else. His brain has finally recovered. That and he probably gave up eating pretzels.
Alternate universe Philip Rivers, love it
Well in Everything Everywhere All At Once you can only jump into realities that have a version of you, and the less that universe differs from yours the easier it is to jump to it (though both the portagonist and antagonist were able to basically ignore that second limit, but not the first).
It is why killing the antagonist's alter would save your universe from the antagonist.
Granted in the universe where life didn't exist on earth a rock was somehow considered a version of you.
“…assigns each one a different floor of the… no I already said tower…”
“Spire?”
“…spire!”
“Yes!” 💪
Bring back Obsessive Pop Culture Detective
Daniel works for John Oliver as a staff writer, he is probably busy. I agree that series was great.
It's the Swaimaissance!
0:10 And here I thought Cracked sucked. Turns out I was just watching the Chargers the whole time
SO I WAS WATCHING CRACKED SINCE I WAS 9?!??!!
There's another dimension in which every word in this video is "dimension."
Derek Derek Derek
5:46 this is the Lead singer of 90s rock band Eels lead singers father
If multiverse exists then it would be for sure the only law of physics that can't be broken (or already has) as far as we would be able to tell with our current understanding.
Holy shit he's back