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Nicolas Vantis
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5313/2025.02.005
Independent Scholar, Brest, France
Based on the Many Worlds Interpretation, I describe reality as a multilayer spacetime, where parallel layers play the role of alternative timelines. I link physics to ethics, arguing that one’s moral choices shape one’s course in the multiverse. I consider one’s ethical decisions as decoherence events, leading to movement between alternative timelines, lighter (higher) or heavier (lower) realities. Sometimes in one’s curvilinear path in spacetime, one can even experience falling toward lower layers, slipping through wormholes. This theory supports free will and the simulation hypothesis. With this background, I explore the idea that a new theory of gravity might open new possibilities to shape matter and change our worldview through the invention of new technology, transforming information into waves and then into solid matter, paving the way for a new Multiverse Aeon for humanity.
philosophy of physics, determinism, ethics, gravity, relativistic spacetime, Many Worlds Interpretation
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