my understanding of multiverse theory...

comes directly from a webcomic

Well not entirely, but i think the diagram is a good one.

from what i understand, and i like this understanding because it allows for time travel, there are an infinite number of universes each reflecting a certain effect of actions taken in this one. i flip a coin, in another universe the coin falls heads, in mine, it falls tails. A series of universes where every action that may potentially has happened happen. These universes exist independently of each other and by the manipulation of time-space, one can be sent into an alternate past (the past would have to be alternate for, as Kim states in the comic, our past has no record of time-travelers, so our future must not contain any. )

So mr. time traveler gets in his ship in the future, pushes the button and is sent to 2008, he is actually opening an alternate universe (this also reconciles the grandfather clause, because as an impartial observer of this universe, he has no effect on the future of his own universe and thereby can not effectively kill his grandfather or hitler's grandfather, or anyone, and have it effect his own timeline.)

Also, for your reading pleasure i submit Robert Heinlein's "All You Zombies" not multiverse theory but a great story about time travel.

War of Mind vs. Brain

This is late, but Wednesday we discussed the difference between the mind and brain. One person remarked that she believed it could proceed with the soul after life is passed. This is obviously one train of thinking, as an atheist, I do not believe the same, but I am not going to pretend I have the gall to say either one is definitively wrong or right.

It is my opinion that the mind and soul are one single, immaterial construct of the mind. One commonly known as the self.

Now, as I am not a neuroscientist, I can not attest to my theory that the human soul is of human, not divine design. With the evolutionary development of the neocortex, and the ability to process complex, abstract ideas such as time and philosophy. Once they grasped the concept of their mortality, they were imbued with soul. Not an eternal soul that will live on in the great thereafter, but one conscious for this world where it develops and reacts and adapt to what is presented to it, perhaps, the mind affects reality as much as reality affects the mind.