If the molecules begin in a fairly improbable configuration, they will naturally evolve to a more probable one as they bounce around randomly. This Earth's Justice League is composed of marshals operating in the Wild West. Boltzmanns proposal was a bold extrapolation from his work on understanding gases. 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. It later faced a catastrophic battle against the Monitors that destroyed most of the planet. Some of Slade's children, like Grant Wilson and Therefore, when you wake up, its reasonable to bet that you most likely took a short nap. Over the course of several years, persistent work by a relatively small group of researchers succeeded in using these types of tests to eliminate many proposalsand to form something of a consensus in the field on a nearly unique solution to the measure problem. So the number of sleeper experiments beginning at any given time is always increasing. Once we realized this, it became clear that this end-of-time effect was an inherent characteristic of the recipe we were using to calculate probabilities, and it is there whether or not anyone actually decides to undertake these strange sleeper experiments. The Monitor first appeared in 2018s crossover Elseworlds, First, the multiverse, though very large, might be able to explore only a finite number of different states, just like an ordinary box of gas. This Harrison Wells speaks with a French accent and is the Multiverse's greatest detective. Then you are put into a cryogenic freezer. 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 A conflict called the War of the Americas happened sometime during the 20th Century, where Zolomon's father James fought. Another tells us that most of the volume will be taken up by the state the decays the slowest. Residents include. Butthings happened differently in the Dark Multiverse! It is the third possibility that holds the most promise for yielding sensible predictions. It was the first appearance of an alternate Earth in DC Comics. Free shipping for many products! In eternal expansion, more sleepers wake up from short naps. No divergence in history other than every inhabitant is a werewolf. We imagine that the universe evolves for a large but finite amount of time and count all of the observations. 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. The probability of our observing a given outcome equals the proportion of observers in the multiverse who observe that outcome. Billy Batson has the identity of Captain Thunder, Superboy was raised in Metropolis, Wonder Woman fought in World War II and Bruce Wayne retired in the mid-1960s to make way for a new Batman and Robin team, An Earth where Superman and Luthor died in their final battle, Superman was replaced by a Kandorian and eventually switched with the Superman of Earth-215, As Krypton Girl, Lois Lane of Krypton quickly tires of Clark Kent's attempts at finding out her secret identity and sends him to the Phantom Zone, Superman marries Lois Lane, Lana Lang and Lori Lemaris, who all tragically die after the wedding, A technologically advanced Earth where Tommy Tomorrow became the first man on Mars in 1960, Superman is married to both Lois Lane and Lana Lang. 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). Maxine Lord killed this Earth's version of. As the molecules bounce around, they will arrange and rearrange themselves in every possible way they can, thus exploring all their possible configurations, or microstates. This process will erase the memory of how the gas started out, allowing us to ignore the problem of initial conditions. Stargirl, Superman & Lois, Greenlantern are some of the shows in the line-up. Following the Crisis, with the multiverse having been reborn and multiple Earths being merged, there are changes from the original multiverse. 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. On this world, Bryce Wayne mass-murdered all metahumans in revenge for the death of her lover, Sylvester Kyle. In his death he was remembered as a hero in the world above. But this program has encountered severe conceptual obstacles. Filled with rage, he disabled his ring's safeguard against lethal force and used its powers to murder criminals. This Earth's Harrison Wells, known as Wells 2.0, is part machine. Why should Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn get all the attention? The scenario may sound extreme, even silly. Paperback August 11, 2015. Before the formal creation of its Multiverse, DC would use the "imaginary story" label to denote stories that did not fit and never were intended to fit into its canona tradition it would continue even after the creation of the Multiverse. It has to do with what are now called Boltzmann brains. Suppose the universe is like a box of gas and, most of the time, is in thermal equilibriumjust a uniform, undifferentiated gruel. It is not the enemy of prediction, but its friend. Attributing the idea to his assistant, known to history only as Dr. The second option is very troubling, because our existing laws are incapableofprovidingthe requisiteinitial conditions. 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. Berkeley and then Alan Guth at MIT. Unlike a finite box of gas, which forgets about its initial conditions as the molecules scramble themselves, a system with an infinite number of available states cannot forget its initial conditions, because it takes an infinite time to explore all of its available states. Spoilers for Avengers Forever #12 by Marvel Comics Marvel's Avenger Prime has officially unveiled his true form, as Loki reveals himself as the hero responsible for assembling the Multiversal Avengers. 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Technology had always been advanced on this Earth, but these new robotic creations were able to think and feel and wielded powers beyond anything yet seen. This Earth is shown to be a desolate barren wasteland of a planet, with ruins as far as the eye can see. Cosmology has always faced a problem of making predictions. Suppose that you flip a coin and do not see the result. The Earth-D heroes had never experienced major tragedies in their lives. Twentieth Century Fox-Film Corporation / Photofest. "Infinite Luthor Part 2", Marv Wolfman and Marc Guggenheim(w),Tom Grummett(p),Danny Miki(i),Chris Sotomayor(col),Wes Abbott(let),Katie Kubert(ed). This Earth's Etrigan is a demon from the planet Kamelot who was sent to Earth by the wizard Merlin. If this assumption were correct, our world would return more and more to thermal equilibrium; but because the whole universe is so great, it might be probable that at some future time some other world might deviate as far from thermal equilibrium as our world does at present.. 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. DC's one universe, one timeline idea was silently killed off with the creation of the pocket universe (which was to explain why the Legion of Super-Heroes still remembered a Superboy when none existed in the Post-Crisis reality). It is like a swirling cloud that, all of a sudden, just so happens to take the shape of a person. We found we could use Boltzmann brains as a toola way to decide among differing prescriptions for how to synchronize clocks. What is needed in this case is some additional information about how the exponential growth stops. Then, you had parallel universes (like that of the Extremists) where the counterpart of Earth had a different name, as well as the realities of the Darkstars and Justice League series. That is impossible. The Merciless, an evil fusion of Batman and the Greek God of War, Like the core Multiverse's Earth 12, an alternate future-related reality, in which, The Drowned, an evil female part-Atlantean version of Batman, The Devastator, a Doomsday version of Batman. Blinded by ambition, the Shadow League performed a ritual that extinguished the Sun. This supposedly reduced the number of earths down to a far more manageable number. At root, our problems arise because the multiverse is an infinite expanse of space and time. He later settles down with Wonder Woman and they have a son. It allows us to make cosmological predictions in a statistical way within the current theoretical framework of physics. Physicists have always hoped that once we understood the fundamental laws of physics, they would make unambiguous predictions for physical quantities. Appeared, retroactively, as an alternate Earth in the "Crisis on Infinite Earths" tie-in comic. If the universe, like a box of gas, can exist in only a finite number of available states, theory predicts that we are Boltzmann brains, which conflicts with observations, not to mention common sense. If we leave the gas in the box for long enough, it will explore some unusual microstates. Our own Earth, where superheroes exist only in fiction. [27] Unlike the original Multiverse, which was composed of an infinite number of alternate universes,[28] this Multiverse is composed of a predetermined number of alternate universes, which were originally referred to as New Earth and Earths 1 through 51, although erroneously in Tangent: Superman's Reign #1, New Earth is referred to as Earth-1; however, in Final Crisis: Superman Beyond #1, New Earth is instead designated Earth-0. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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. "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). The Earth of the 1960's Batman TV series. I now realize Heisenberg and Schrdinger are less like physicists and more like therapists. The universe has an infinite number of states available, avoiding the Boltzmann brain problem, yet approaches a steady-state behavior, allowing for a straightforward statistical analysis. The Multiverse has undergone numerous changes and has included various universes, listed below between the original Multiverse and its successors. A Hypertime version of Earth-Three was seen in, This Earth was introduced at the beginning of, Earth-Six is apparently ruled by a royal family of superheroes (Lord Volt is referred to as the king, and he mentions his family's reign over Earth). This page was last edited on 18 January 2023, at 17:01. 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. Infinite Crisis Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. This universe is a bright, optimistic place where no one ever dies (including the inhabitants of Krypton and Thomas and Martha Wayne). Nautilus is a different kind of science magazine. Its dangerous to take a long nap in the second option, because you might be killed by a meteor while sleeping. Common sense tells us that the odds for such a bet should be 50/50 if the coin is fair. 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. If you take this type of theory seriously, it predicts that we are just some very special Boltzmann brains who have been deluded into thinking that we are observing a vast, homogeneous universe. Its two main worlds, New Genesis and Apokolips, are mirror reflections of each other: New Genesis, the bright, glorious home ruled by Highfather, and Apokolips, the fiery, horrific home of the evil warlord Darkseid and his minions. Dini, Paul; Bedard, Tony(w),Garcis, Manuel(p),McKenna, Mark(i). The expansion approaches a steady-state behavior, with the expanding high-energy state continually expanding and budding off lower-energy regions. Then the tools that Boltzmann developed are no longer useful in calculating the probability of different things happening. From time to time, people perform these sleeper experiments, except now the subjects sleep either for 1 year or for 100 years. Harrison Wolfgang Wells (Harrison Wells' doppelgnger), Wells the Grey (Harrison Wells' doppelgnger), Oliver Queen / Green Arrow, John Diggle, Jr. / Connor Hawke, Grant Wilson, Olivia, and Sara Lance (deceased), Harrison Wells (Harrison Wells' doppelgnger). Appeared as the future of an alternate universe in "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Two". A pocket reality created by the Time Trapper as part of an elaborate plan to destroy the Legion of Super-Heroes. For example, in the year 2016, sleepers who went to sleep for a short time in 2015 will wake up, as will sleepers who began a long nap in 1916. ", "Every Arrow-verse Cameo From The Crisis On Infinite Earths Crossover So Far", "What Earths Did 'The Flash' Get Their Council of Wells From? Also known as Warworld. [228] This leaves open the question of how (or even if) the Pre-Crisis, Hypertime, 52 and post-Flashpoint Multiverses interact. 1: Inspired by the Hit Video Game! The expansion approaches a steady-state behavior, with The Anti-Monitor saved the Dark Angel, just as the Monitor had saved her good counterpart Harbinger. Members of the New Reischmen include Overgirl (an alternate version of Supergirl), the Dark Arrow (an alternate version of the Green Arrow). Many of these Earths appear to be highly unstable and pre-apocalyptic, akin to the depiction of the Earths that were consumed during Crisis on Infinite Earths. On this Earth, Kal-L's rocket landed in Germany, where he was raised by Adolf Hitler, and helped Germany win World War II. 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. It seems to contain a vast landscape of solutions, or vacua, each with its own values of the observable physical constants. This understanding could take one of three forms. When Don Page at the University of Alberta pointed out the potential problems with Boltzmann brains in a paper in 2006, Raphael Bousso at U.C. 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In order to make any of these three options work, I think we will need a revolutionary advance in our understanding of physics. For example. The CW and Warner Bros. TV actually told a live-action version of Crisis on Infinite Earths that not only managed to touch on the vast majority of DC TV history, but 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. The Shadow League, a cabal of twisted sorcerers, lusted for absolute rule over this Earth. Note that Wonder Woman met a duplicate version of herself coming from an unnamed twin Earth in "Wonder Woman's Invisible Twin", (Wonder Woman #59 (MayJune 1953)). To be clear about the conclusion: No one thinks that time suddenly ends in spacetimes like ours, let alone that we should be conducting peculiar hibernation experiments. It was the location of the Oculus Wellspring, before its destruction at the hands of Leonard Snart. 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. Berkeley and I were thrilled to realize that we could turn the problem on its head. Also (archaic): crise DC Wiki suggests that the Golden Age appearances of Superboy might have been on this 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. The trouble was first pointed out by the astronomer and physicist Sir Arthur Eddington in 1931, if not earlier. On the one hand, you might argue that obviously the odds are 50/50. 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. The second option is very troubling, because our existing laws are incapable of providing the requisite initial conditions. storyline in Superman/Batman, the Multiverse is visited by Bizarro and Batzarro. Transposed with Earth-One. But then were back to the problem of initial conditions. This is not an April Fool story. Originally, there was no consistency regarding "numbered" Earthsthey would be either spelled out as words or use numbers, even within the same story. The multiverse appears to offer a middle way. It would thus require a profound shift in the way physicists think. Otherwise the system will never be able to explore all its states. Ben Freivogel is an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam. WebSynopsis for "Prelude" This story is reprinted from Infinite Crisis: Fight for the Multiverse #1 (Digital), Infinite Crisis: Fight for the Multiverse #2 (Digital) and Infinite Crisis: Fight for the Multiverse #3 (Digital).. Nix Uotan records that the the multiverse consists of 52 universes in delicate balance. We imagine this as an isolated brain that survives just long enough to notice it is about to die: the so-called Boltzmann brain. From the first cells to unique minds, in the editors note from Print Issue 46. CW is already working on upcoming DC shows thatll take place in the new multiverse. In the second, a huge meteor suddenly destroys the planet, terminating all sleeper experiments. Lex Luthor of Earth-38 came to this Earth to kill its Superman in "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Two". 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. This strange effect occurs because the volume of space is exponentially expanding and never stops. Additionally, references within the series pointed to versions of Justice League members having existed in that universe. Inhabitants of these worlds have been frequent visitors to the Earth-One and Post-, In 1993, word of a gang war on Paris Island resulted in Mayor Jefferson ordering enforcement officials to spray every gang member present with an experimental tear gas laced with a radioactive marker that would allow the police to track the participants down later. Consider two options. This amounts to an ambiguity in how to characterize the steady-state behavior, known as the measure problem. Where Are The Image Comics Founders Today? This Harrison Wells, known as Harrison Lothario Wells, is inspired by. Its Superman is a facsimile to Ray Palmer, who is Earth-1's superhero the Atom. We count how many observers in the multiverse measure a physical quantity to have a given value. 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And indeed many people have criticized the multiverse concept on just these grounds. 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. For example, "Crisis on Earth-Three!" The Murder Machine, a cyborg version of Batman. "Doc" Will Tornado invented a metal Justice League to be heroes for his Earth, such as Platinum Wonder Woman, Gold Superman, Lead Green Arrow, etc. A version of Bruce Wayne existed on this Earth, as he provided wisdom to Adrian Chase. If a theory makes no predictions, it ceases to be physics. Home to a bounty hunter/killer who had a magical knife that could penetrate force fields. 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). In the "With A Vengeance!" The Falcons ( A Non-Muppet Movie), McDonaldland: The Movie (1985 feature film), The Jim Henson Collection (Family Home Entertainment), The Galaxy Star Super Miracle Night Series, Real-Life Monsters: Danny Phantom's Encyclopedia of Prehistoric Life & Very Unusual & Dangerous Animals, The Three Musketeers (new Disney live-action film), Untitled Transformers/DC Universe Crossover, Sinister Six (Dock Ock, Lizard, Electro, Kraven, Mysterio, Sandman), Spider-Man (2099) - Christopher Daniel Barnes. With that, DC introduced one of its greatest foes and had the Justice League hop across the multiverse as it was destroyed by Pariah and the Anti-Monitor. As a result, fans and editors would create other Earths to explain things like the Super Friends comic (set on what writers referred to as Earth-B[23]). A problem we thought we had eliminated came rushing back in. Convergence retroactively prevented the destruction of the original DC Multiverse, so all the Pre-Crisis earths exist but in an "evolved" form, though all characters in continuity or canon can be used by writers. It is unknown what exactly caused its desolation, though, A reality where the Justice League are a brutal force that maintains order on Earth. If the coin came up tails, the experimenters instruct their descendants to wake you up after 50 billion years. 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. Its successors tells us that the universe evolves for a first strike, the experimenters instruct descendants. 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