Additional universes have either been visited or mentioned in dialogue in later seasons of the Arrowverse shows, and some older television series such as the 1990 The Flash series and films such as the 1989 Batman film have been retroactively incorporated into the Arrowverse multiverse as their own parallel universes (with the designation ending in the last two digits of the year it was released). Home to a bounty hunter/killer who had a magical knife that could penetrate force fields. It would thus require a profound shift in the way physicists think. Home to Brigadier Atom and Eve of Shadows. The Monitor first appeared in 2018s crossover Elseworlds, [80], cameo appearance: Trinity #52 (May 2009) Therefore, when you wake up, its reasonable to bet that you most likely took a short nap. On this Earth's future, Bruce Wayne lost all hope and became a serial killer; going on to kill Superman as well as various villains like, Appeared, retroactively, as an alternate universe in "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Two". The second option is very troubling, because our existing laws are incapableofprovidingthe requisiteinitial conditions. storyline in Superman/Batman, the Multiverse is visited by Bizarro and Batzarro. Then the tools that Boltzmann developed are no longer useful in calculating the probability of different things happening. It was a combination of modern multi-cultural sensibilities combined with Silver Age-style innocence. Then you are put into a cryogenic freezer. Originally, there was no consistency regarding "numbered" Earthsthey would be either spelled out as words or use numbers, even within the same story. We found we could useBoltzmann brains as a toola way to decide among differing prescriptions for how to synchronize clocks. Cisco Ramon briefly made contact with this universe's Earth. Therefore, when you wake up, its reasonable to bet that you most likely took a short nap. 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. Then you are put into a cryogenic freezer. Worse, many of these prescriptions predict that the vast majority of observers are Boltzmann brains. This gives us a way to calculate how likely it is to find the box in a given coarse-grained state, or macrostate: We simply count the fraction of microstates consistent with what we know about the macrostate. A universe which nearly destroyed Earth-19. Finally, the multiverse might explore an infinite number of different states, but the exponential expansion of space effectively erases the initial conditions. By contrast, other stories were clearly intended to be canonical, but various details were wrong or there were stories told in other media that were never said not to be canonical. In an infinite multiverse, physics loses its ability to make predictions. Keith Champagne claimed to have a vague recollection of Dan DiDio's list of alternate worlds and said that Earth-13 was "Vertigo, sort of". Some worlds, like Earth-1 and Earth-23, appear to be entirely untouched, while others, like Earth-0, Earth-2, and Earth-16, have changed drastically. The survivors hope that the Earth can be healed, but the nuclear aftermath has left them with scars that never will heal. An alternate version of Wonder Woman named Tara Terruna. A magical version of the DC Universe, which is home to characters such as "Batmage, master of the Dark Arts, Kal-El, wielder of Kryptonian magics, and Lady Flash, keeper of the Speed Force", Also home to an alternate version of the original, Home to an alternate version of Captain Atom, who is the leader of the Atomic Knights. This Harrison Wells, known as "Hell's Wells", is a cowboy. All the latest gaming news, game reviews and trailers. Benjamin Bishop is a linguist, literary critic and general menace to society operating out of Indianapolis, Indiana. Credit:NASA, W. Sparks (STScI) and R. Sahai (JPL). This world functions somewhat differently than most worlds of the multiverse. The CW television series Arrow received its first spin-off The Flash in 2014 with both set in the same fictional universe (Earth-1). "Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 2", Marv Wolfman and Marc Guggenheim(w),Tom Grummett(p),Danny Miki(i),Chris Sotomayor(col),Wes Abbott(let),Katie Kubert(ed). If our state of delusion lasts long enough for this article to appear, you can safely discard the theory. According to Gideon, there are about 3.725 trillion changes to reality as a result of the Crisis. Right now, we dont have one. Another tells us that most of the volume will be taken up by the state the decays the slowest. The Green Lantern of Earth-12 is a descendant of Hal Jordan. For instance, if 10 percent of observers live in regions of the multiverse where dark matter is made out of light particles (such as axions), while 90 percent of observers live in regions where dark matter is made out of heavy particles (which, counterintuitively, are called WIMPs), then we have a 10 percent chance of discovering that dark matter is made of light particles. Crisis in the Multiverse - Stage 1 Add to Favourites By MLDKF Published: Sep 17, 2017 9 Favourites 2 Comments 1K Views Stage 1 An open field with rolling hills in the distance The sounds of footsteps can be heard as we hear someone running in from the left. Events and characters on this world paralleled those of Earth-One; additionally, events and characters on Earth-C-Minus were considered fictional on Earth-C (with Captain Carrot's alter-ego employed as the, This Earth (like Earth-C and Earth-C Minus) is also populated by intelligent anthropomorphic talking animals, but those that were created by Fawcett Comics. It is revealed at the end of the issue that Earth-Q is a real world Earth, as Friedrich Nietzsche is seen creating his famous bermensch, or "Superman", concept and Joe Shuster is shown drawing the first modern Superman on the cover of, Earth-Q would later become the sentient universe known as, Had several large-scale international wars before its World War II, There was no Freedom Fighters team formed and a few heroes (such as Doll Man, Plastic Man and the Blackhawks) continued their careers after the war fighting crooks and Communists, Fawcett Comics publications of the 1940s and 1950s took place on this Earth, with its predominant heroic teams being the, Another Hypertime version of Earth-S was seen in, An Earth where Superman and Lois Lane married and had a son named Jor. The Joker and Mr. Mxyzptlk summon Batmen and Supermen from various realities, both previously established worlds as well as unexplored ones.[12]. Any proposal that predicts that we are Boltzmann brains must perforce be wrong. This Earth was attacked and seized by Darkseid when it collided with his home planet of Apokolips. DC began the exploration of the multiverse long before Marvel. Heroes and villains have since adapted to their magically infused environment, developing strange new abilities. But when we apply our rules for how to do calculations in an eternally expanding universe, we find that you should bet that you only slept for one year. Aswirling cloud, all of a sudden, just so happens to take the shape of a person. From the first cells to unique minds, in the editors note from Print Issue 46. Dadnapped 2: The Secondary Trap (The Muppets Style), Hatching Pete 2: The Roosters Vs. A version of Bruce Wayne existed on this Earth, as he provided wisdom to Adrian Chase. The problem is a quantitative one. Mathematically, we can choose many different conceivable ways to synchronize clocks across these large regions of space, and these different choices lead to different predictions for what types of observations are likely or unlikely. I now realize Heisenberg and Schrdinger are less like physicists and more like therapists. The scenario may sound extreme, even silly. It's a direct answer to DC's previous innovations while carefully managing where its stories may go in the future and embracing the strength of the Elseworlds brand. After Carol Ferris professed her love for Hal Jordan instead of Green Lantern and accepted his marriage proposal, the Earth-One Green Lantern eventually figured out that he had somehow shifted into a parallel universe, which he compared to Earth-Two and Earth-Three. In order to make any of these three options work, I think we will need a revolutionary advance in our understanding of physics. 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. It just isnt a sensible problem to calculate probabilities under the assumption that the human population grows exponentially forever, and indeed it is impossible for the population to grow forever. Justice League, The Titans, and Earth One villains. Clark Kent / Superman mentions his son Jason and alludes to the events of. 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 Earths 1, 2, 4, S and X. "Captain Allen Atom") the "Quantum Superman" appears in, The Meta Militia are a group of heroes based upon the "Champions of Angor", who were a pastiche of the, On this Earth, an African-American Superman with vast mental powers has conquered the entire planet and has outlawed all superpowered beings save for those who work under his command. 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. So it might be natural to guess that you are waking from a short nap. The trouble is that there is no unique way to do this, because there is no universal way to define a moment in time. This helps, as The New 52 introduced a Dark Multiverse that uses negative numbers (i.e., Earth -3). Native home of the Forerunners, creatures bred by the Monitors from all the alien races of the inhabited solar systems after the destruction of all human life on Earth (now called War World) in a war against the rest of the solar system. Paperback August 11, 2015. Yet our intuition about gases must be altered when we consider huge spans of time. 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. The issue came into focus via a thought experiment suggested by Alan Guth of theMassachusettsInstitute ofTechnology and Vitaly Vanchurin at the University of Michigan in Duluth. 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. 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. On this Earth, young Bruce Wayne became a Green Lantern immediately following the death of his parents. In the first, one day no more babies are born, but every sleeper experiment that has begun eventually finishes. If we leave the gas in the box for long enough, it will explore some unusual microstates. Twentieth Century Fox-Film Corporation / Photofest, By Hypercats Video Producers&Kevin Berger. By calculating what happens frequently and what happens rarely in the multiverse, we can make statistical predictions for what we will observe. 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. The 2019 crossover event "Crisis on Infinite Earths", inspired by the comic of the same name, destroyed all universes within the Arrowverse multiverse, both on- and off-screen. The Earth -22 Batman became the Batman Who Laughs following a climatic confrontation between the two antagonists, which drove an insane Batman into killing the Joker, while turning him into a new Joker from being subjected to a purified form of Joker venom. An Earth of pulp characters, both derived from classic DC characters and also drawing on classic literary pulp characters. The main idea is to make probabilistic predictions. Established as an alternate universe in the season 2 finale. Its dangerous to take a long nap in the second option, because you might be killed by a meteor while sleeping. 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. How do we do that for the entire universe? What a shame that it is wrong. If the multiverse is large and diverse enough to contain some regions where dark matter is made out of light particles and other regions where dark matter is made out of heavy particles, how could we possibly predict which one we should see in our own region? The end of the Convergence series resulted in the retroactive saving of the Pre-Crisis DC Multiverse. Boltzmanns proposal was a bold extrapolation from his work on understanding gases. Gases that start off clumpy for some reason will spread out, for a simple reason: It is statistically far more likely for their molecules to be uniformly distributed rather than clustered. Thomas, Roy(w),Hoberg, Rick(p),Collins, Bill(i). 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. A conflict called the War of the Americas happened sometime during the 20th Century, where Zolomon's father James fought. That should tell us the steady-state behavior. We felt that we had learned how to tame the frightening infinities of the theory. The Antimatter Universe held a special place in the Multiverse: there was an infinite number of "positive-matter universes" separated from each other by vibrational planes and there was a single Antimatter Universe. Now, a map of the multiverse exists, but with the full knowledge that there is quite a bit left to explore and many universes yet to be created. This years winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics were driven by curiosity, skill, and tenacity. 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