The Synchronous Universe Theory
I have theory, on which I will expand at some point, that the universe we inhabit is all in phase and ticking on the same Planck clock tick.
Other universes may exist "out of phase" with ours since they exist on a different sub-Planck phase to ours.
Check out Planck Time on Wikipedia.
Also Wikipedia:Time"Quantised time" .
This talks about the smallest measureable time period of about 10-43seconds.
Since the universe allegedly came into existence (according to "Big Bang" theory) at the same time,
it stands to reason that time in this universe "steps" in phase with a period of the Planck time.
So what happens between the Planck time clocks of this universe?
Well there could exist an infinite number of other universes existing in these 3 spacial dimensions and this time, but out of phase with us in this universe.
We would not be able to interact with the other universes unless we could observe times of less than the Planck time (or non-integer multiples of Planck time).
This means multiverse could easily be a reality and is verified in modern physics.
It just needs some brainiac to do some sums and work out how we could prove it.
I would call this the "Synchronous Universe Theory".
Digital Universe
Since the realm of DNA and now Quantum Mechanics we are understanding the universe in which we live seems to be a digital universe.
Everything is either described by combinations of simple binary patterns (DNA) or comes in discrete indivisible lumps (QM).
There is a mechanism in the world of computers in which this idea is well understood.
In hardware there is a device called a "Gate Array" or "Programmable Array".
A gate array is like an IC in which all the components are unconnected,
and a designer uses a software configuration to connect them to their own circuits.
This way you can buy a mass produced unprogrammed gate array to be used for all sorts of tasks
which would previously needed to make a special IC.
This makes them very cheap and the product you are trying to create cheap also.
These are used in all computers many times, and in fact the main processor on you PC
will have start its design life as a programmable gate array before it is made into a mass produced chip.
Once the design has been refined to work as expected this design is then used to program real processors etc. for mass productions.
Anyway enough of the computer talk, why is this relevant?
When a designer is creating a device, there is 2 approaches they can take: asynchronous or synchronous.
It's described a bit here: wikipedia, the difference being the use of a clock.
An asynchronous design is where everything happens as a result of some input event:
The car slows down in front of you so you need to brake or change lanes.
Your action (braking or whatever) is the result of an event (car in front slows).
This seems perfectly acceptable, but what if you start to change lanes and the guy next to you accelerates, or the truck moves out and blocks you.
Now we are (hopefully) experienced drivers and we learn to deal with these things by experience,
but imagine trying to, for example, build a robot to drive a school bus.
How would you test that the robot would perform as expected given the infinite possibilities?
The way designers attempt to deal with this is they make every action happen at regular predetermined times.
These predetermined times are governed by a clock pulsing regularly and fast enough that you actually don't know it's doing this.
You already know about this clock business, since the processor on your PC has one.
You buy a PC with a processor of a specified clock speed (e.g. 1.6GHz) this is the speed of that synchronising clock.
Also graphics and memory, etc all have a speed associated with them.
When a designer is testing their design they will run their test inputs and outputs
and make sure the clock speed is slow enough to cope with all the things that will happen at the same time,
but fast enough to perform the tasks for which the chip is designed.
So maybe our universe is like the gate array in that there is a kind of clock running to synchronise all the stuff happening in this universe.
This clock is "ticking" with a period of the Planck time.
So... if this universe has a synchronous clock, was that designed like all the best ICs?
Phases explain quantum effects
Might have some proofs in wave/particle duality and collapse of the wave function.
Maybe the particles take multiple routes in different phases and when we observe them they are either randomly in our phase or not.
This could certainly explain probability waves, though I'm not sure how yet.
It could certainly explain quantum tunnelling since the particles would jump a barrier when in a different phase as ours,
a phase where that barrier doesn't exist.
The particle exists in all phases until we observer it in our phase.
So the "collapsing of the wave function" is actually detecting the particle in our phase (or not)
In Young double slit we fire single particles (photons or electrons) at a screen.
We only know they are single particles after they hit the screen.
Maybe actually it is a stream of particles in reality but most of them are in different phases.
They interfere with each other as normal, but we don't see this since we only see our phase.
Or what we perceive in this phase as a particle is actually a continuous wave in the full reality outside our universes clock phase.
