"Am I living someone else's ideal of perfect?"
In those shoes, you might well be, Candi.
Eistein would have said no.
Einstein definitely would have said no.
If there's more than one possible outcome for everything, then there are an infinite number of universes. How is there room for them all?

oops. kirk, my infinity symbol doesn't work!
It's beyond our knowledge at the moment. Please check back in at least one century. We may have an answer for you then.
You may want to check out http://www.kuro5hin.org/prime-intellect/ and others by the same author, including:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/8/19/21304/8493
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/28/214354/40
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/2/12/202154/661
"If there's more than one possible outcome for everything, then there are an infinite number of universes."
Umm, I think you missed a step.
I mean, the "many many worlds" theory is just one line of thought about the issue, isn't it?
Foso: see if this works: ∞
(if so it's
&amp infin ;
minus the spaces)
clearly it does work, k.
Ok, I should've said "I'm seeing if this works"...I wasn't positive til I tried it.
<i>Am I living someone else's ideal of perfect?</i>
Almost certainly, yes. However, such is the depth of human experience that you probably don't even need to go to another world to find that person.
The someone else's ideal of perfect is one of those questions that I needed to consider for my study in Utopian studies.
I wish the series "Sliders" were better.
THere are lots of decisions I make where I imagine there's a parallel universe where I went the other way. If enough of them stack, there's one where I'm running a bed and breakfast in the Czech Republic, playing chess with backpackers and speaking Esperanto to my wife. Or there's one where I'm still living with my parents and haven't worked in two years. So it goes both ways.