No divergence in history other than every inhabitant is a werewolf. DC began the exploration of the multiverse long before Marvel. But an important issue tends to go unnoticed in debates over the multiverse. [153] Some heroes and villains have endured for decades. The probability of our observing a given outcome equals the proportion of observers in the multiverse who observe that outcome. Dark Crisis led DC in a very different direction than most readers expected, as what was initially sold as the death of the Justice League wound up becoming the birth Berkeley and then Alan Guth at MIT. As the Cold War was brewing between the world's superpowers, a mysterious object from space crashed into Kansas. One of three Earths named by Alexander Luthor in, Home of variant versions of Animal Man, Batman, and B'wana Beast and many historical divergences, such as. However, Dark Crisis took a step in the other direction and opened up a system for more stories. 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. 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. WebThe so-called "Pre-Crisis Multiverse" consisted on an infinite number of worlds, separated by different vibrational frequencies. Then the tools that Boltzmann developed are no longer useful in calculating the probability of different things happening. Also known as Warworld. We count how many observers in the multiverse measure a physical quantity to have a given value. Episode #29 LORD HAVOK AND THE EXTREMISTS, "DC Comics' solicitation for Justice League of America (vol. Infinite Crisis used both, but Crisis on Infinite Earths: Absolute Edition and everything after 52 have referred to the alternate universes with numerals. The Earth-One Batman and Gotham City first appeared in Detective Comics #327 (May 1964)[3][4], The Adventures of Bob Hope #94 (September 1965) for Earth-Twelve, (Earth-692)[17] At the end of the crisis, only 52 universes remained. From the first cells to unique minds, in the editors note from Print Issue 46. That should tell us the steady-state behavior. Superboy, fights a wild Lemur Man (December 2005), Jor-El, Lara, and Kal-El all survive Krypton's destruction and capes are a status symbol, An Earth where Wonder Woman, Wonder Girl and Wonder Tot are three separate people, In order to better conceal his identity as Superboy, this Earth's version of Clark Kent masqueraded as a bully, Batman became a crime fighter after defeating the Blue Bat, Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor marry, with disastrous results, An Earth where astronauts land on the home of Futuro, Krypton, An Earth where Superboy abandoned Earth on his debut, due to red kryptonite turning him evil, An Earth where the Earth-One Superman prevented Atlantis from sinking and evacuated the population of Krypton to Earth, An Earth where Clayface, Luthor and the Mirror Master are heroes and Batman, the Flash, Superman and Wonder Woman are villains, An Earth in which Lex Luthor succeeded in killing Superman, This Earth's only survivor, Lois Lane, is rocketed to Krypton, An Earth home to Superman Red, who married, An Earth where Superman has twins; one with superpowers, the other without, An Earth where Lex Luthor is Superman and Clark Kent is Batman, An Earth where Lex Luthor tried to prevent Jor-El and Lara from marrying, An Earth where Bruce Wayne was adopted by the Kents and became Clark's brother, soon joining him as the crimefighting team of Superboy and Batboy, then later emigrating to Gotham, where Clark Kent becomes employed at the, An Earth where Lex Luthor is Clark Kent's foster brother and Pete Ross is Superman's greatest foe, An Earth where Superman lost his powers and adopted the identity of Nova, The Superman of this Earth was raised by apes in Africa as Karkan, Lord of the Jungle, An Earth where Robin was the caretaker for a mentally impaired Batman and a blind Superman, An Earth where Superman loses his powers, marries Lois and together they have a superpowered son, An Earth where Hyperman is Kal-El and Superman is Knor-El, due to Kryptonopolis being taken by Brainiac, An Earth where Superman married Lois Lane and had a daughter, After the death of his wife at the hands of the Dimension Master, who is later killed by Lex Luthor and Brainiac (because they respect Superman), Superman exchanges places with Earth-Forty-Three's Superman so that he can marry this Earth's Lois Lane, The son of Clark Kent and Lois Lane and the son of Bruce Wayne and Kathy Kane try to live up to or surpass their fathers' legacies, but usually end up arguing amongst themselves (or with their fathers) or causing trouble. Per his notes, this world is. The issue came into focus via a thought experiment suggested by Alan Guth of theMassachusettsInstitute ofTechnology and Vitaly Vanchurin at the University of Michigan in Duluth. The real world and the keystone Earth from which all the other Earths within the DC Multiverse originated. The first option for making statistical predictions in cosmology goes back to a paper by the Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann in 1895. Has the theory lost its mooring to observation? Any proposal that predicts that we are Boltzmann brains must perforce be wrong. This Earth is home to the Society of Super-Heroes, a group of 'pulp'-style mystery men led by Doc Fate (an alternate version of, This Earth is visited for some time by Earth-0's, This Earth is home to black versions of DC characters; including Superman (who is President of the United States) and Wonder Woman, and a version of Brainiac called Brainiac: Vathlo Prime, The Wonder Woman of this Earth is named Nubia, hailing from the island of Amazonia, where its inhabitants, the Wonder Women, have brought anti-war technology to the world, This Earth's Batman is a dark vigilante who fights against crime and corruption, while Superman is a federal agent for the government, Bruce Wayne becomes this Earth's Green Lantern instead of Hal Jordan. Therefore, the theory conflicts with observation: It predicts that typical observers should see a completely blank sky, without stars, when they look up at night. This Earth is the obsession of the Inverse Cult led by Ally Allston. 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Lex Luthor of Earth-38 came to this Earth to kill its Superman in "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Two". 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. The Monitor first appeared in 2018s crossover Elseworlds, On this Earth, Kal-L's rocket landed in Germany, where he was raised by Adolf Hitler, and helped Germany win World War II. Therefore, the theory conflicts with observation: It predicts that typical observers should see a completely blank sky, without stars, when they look up at night. An Earth visited by the Earth-One Jimmy Olsen. Because 52 introduced another set of Earths, The Flash: Flashpoint changed the nature of many of those Earths. Politically, Earth-Two was different from the Earth-One template modeled after Earth-Prime. The fact that two logical lines of argument yield contradictory answers tells us that the problem is not well-defined. The trouble is that there is no unique way to do this, because there is no universal way to define a moment in time. Now suppose you have just woken up and have a chance to bet whether you have been asleep for 1 year or 50 billion years. It is a microscopic dimension that is visited by the, Pocket world that is inside the DC Multiverse, where the different dimensions that connect to each other coexist and some universes are interconnected from the same Multiverse, The Red Death, a dark anti-hero fusion of Batman and the Flash. Teenaged versions of DC Comics characters in high school, Medieval versions of DC Comics characters, Wonder Queen, Wonder Woman, Wonder Girl, Wonder Tot, Earth-0 counterpart heroes are villains, and vice versa, Superman Red, Superman Blue, Batman Blue, Batman Gray, Superman and, later, Batman are divided into two separate beings, Werewolf versions of DC Comics characters. These hopes nowappear to have been hopelessly nave. The same can be said for Gypsy, as she took bags of coffee back with her when she returned to Earth-19. In a box of gas, this finitude is guaranteed by the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics. Our job is to develop a similar statistical understanding of events in the multiverse. Originally, there was no consistency regarding "numbered" Earthsthey would be either spelled out as words or use numbers, even within the same story. Infinite Crisis: Fight for the Multiverse is an Infinite Crisis tie-in comic book series published by DC Comics, consisting of 36 issues. It is not the enemy of prediction, but its friend. He later settles down with Wonder Woman and they have a son. A new Multiverse was revealed at the end of the 52 weekly maxiseries. In an infinite multiverse, physics loses its ability to make predictions. DC's decision regarding how to handle the fallout from Dark Crisis has set it on a path to thrive on the power of its greatest asset, the multiverse. The second option on our list is that the universe has an infinite number of states available to it. Nautilus is a different kind of science magazine. I now realize Heisenberg and Schrdinger are less like physicists and more like therapists. Suppose that you flip a coin and do not see the result. On the other, on any given day, far more people wake up from short naps than from long naps. This Earth consists of inhabitants from the previous Earth-1, Earth-2, Earth-3, Earth-38, and Black Lightning ' s unnamed Earth. Inhabitants are not aware of the creation of the new multiverse and believe it does not exist. Established as an alternate universe in "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Five". 4) #61-62. A problem we thought we had eliminated came rushing back in. Tales of horrors prowling the night were once just legends on this Earth - until the darkness returned. Designed to have the feel of "The Hills". [29] The alternate universes were originally identical to New Earth and contained the same history and people until Mister Mind "devoured" portions of each Earth's history, creating new, distinct Earths with their own histories and people, such as the Nazi-themed version of the Justice League that exists in Earth-10. The following is a list of characters who are named in the comic summaries but have yet to appear in the game. Earth-Zero's only appearance was in a single panel in, This was one of the proposed names for the post-, The default Earth for most of DC's comics during the time the original DC Multiverse construct was in use, Earth-One was by far the most populated and widely explored and it retained dominance over the other four worlds which were merged with it during the. What a shame that it is wrong. It has slightly over 2 billion inhabitants, although the reason for this slower global population growth is unclear. Home to "Tin", a robot. 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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 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. Once the theory becomes well-defined by making the total number of people finite, probability questions have unique, sensible answers. At these moments, gas assembles into stars, our solar system, and all the rest. 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). science and spotlight its ripples in our lives and cultures. Heroes and villains have set aside old rivalries and are united in fighting the darkness that threatens to engulf their world forever. It is revealed at the end of the issue that Earth-Q is a real world Earth, as Friedrich Nietzsche is seen creating his famous bermensch, or "Superman", concept and Joe Shuster is shown drawing the first modern Superman on the cover of, Earth-Q would later become the sentient universe known as, Had several large-scale international wars before its World War II, There was no Freedom Fighters team formed and a few heroes (such as Doll Man, Plastic Man and the Blackhawks) continued their careers after the war fighting crooks and Communists, Fawcett Comics publications of the 1940s and 1950s took place on this Earth, with its predominant heroic teams being the, Another Hypertime version of Earth-S was seen in, An Earth where Superman and Lois Lane married and had a son named Jor. In many ways, the first option is the most agreeable to physicists, because it extends our well-established statistical techniques. Although we cannot possibly keep track of the motion of all the individual molecules, we can make extremely precise predictions for how the gas as a whole will behave. This universe and its inhabitants were destroyed by an anti-matter wave in "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Three". Eventually all of the particles will accidentally cluster in one corner of the box. A lot more experiments started a year ago than 50 billion years ago, so most of the people waking up today were asleep for a short time. It would thus require a profound shift in the way physicists think. It was a combination of modern multi-cultural sensibilities combined with Silver Age-style innocence. Some of these skins come with different powers and voice actors. That is impossible. Finally, not all alternate reality stories were assigned a name. Thomas, Roy(w),Hoberg, Rick(p),Collins, Bill(i). Similar to the real world, superheroes exist only in fiction, outside of Superboy-Prime and the 2004 incarnation of the Legion of Super-Heroes, The Antimatter Universe is a "universe of evil". He claims that he will let the Justice League's world die for the true Multiverse to be reborn. This page was last edited on 18 January 2023, at 17:01. Schuetz, Boltzmann wrote: It may be said that the world is so far from thermal equilibrium that we cannot imagine the improbability of such a state. The trouble is that there is no unique way to do this, because there is no universal way to define a moment in time. : The Return of Black Adam, Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles, "Infinite Atlas: Minor Pre-Crisis Universes", "CBR News: FAN EXPO: A Guide to Your DC Universe", "WW: Chicago '07: Dan DiDio on Countdown: Arena", "Baltimore Comic-Con 07: DC Nation Panel Report", "DC Universe: The Source " Blog Archive " DCU IN 2010: WELCOME TO EARTH ONE", "Newsarama.com: THE 52 EXIT INTERVIEWS: GRANT MORRISON", WHO COUNTS IN COUNTDOWN? H. R. Wells (Harrison Wells' doppelgnger), Sonny Wells (Harrison Wells' doppelgnger), H.P. Appeared, retroactively, as an alternate universe during "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part One", during which it was destroyed by an anti-matter wave. Variations of some of these worlds appeared in the 52 and New 52 Multiverses, which are also Hypertime realities.[1]. "The Battle of Santa Barbara--Times Two!". Felicity Smoak's party travels to this Earth to seek the Stranger's aid to transport to the planet Oa on the universe of Earth-12, where they glimpse a doppelgnger of the Anti-Monitor is at war with its heroes and thus a part of the event of DC Comics' original. Cosmology has always faced a problem of making predictions. This gives us a way to calculate how likely it is to find the box in a given coarse-grained state, or macrostate: We simply count the fraction of microstates consistent with what we know about the macrostate. [228] This leaves open the question of how (or even if) the Pre-Crisis, Hypertime, 52 and post-Flashpoint Multiverses interact. This is sciences version of the old philosophical question of First Cause. The planet is cube shaped and "Bizarre" versions of the inhabitants of the. For this procedure to work, the total number of microstates, while very large, must be finite. North America was destroyed by Monarch. The Justice League, Merlin and King Arthur resolved the situation and restored Earth-One and Magic-Land to their respective original universes, This universe has various derivations, explained as manifestations of, This Earth is dubbed "Earth 2" by the Antimatter Universe's Lex Luthor, who dubs his own Earth "Earth 1", This Earth was destroyed and then recreated due to the events of, In 1940, various female DC heroes and villains are enlisted to fight in World War II, Was visited by Prime Earth's Harley Quinn, who drove that reality's Hitler to commit suicide, An Earth formed out of the Atom's dreams by Dr. Destiny, where the JLI were militaristic fascists, An Earth where the entire continent, except for Gotham City (renamed "the Garden"), is a wasteland, There are many contradictions within and between the animated TV series and comic books, The Fourth World is a continuum inhabited by the New Gods. 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