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. In February 2018, the Dark Nights: Metal series disclosed the existence of an additional Earth within this context, populated by sapient metasimians.[79]. Well, as coherent as superhero timelines get, anyway. Thea Queen died of an overdose of the Vertigo drug. This Earth includes evil counterparts to members of the Justice League and Prime Earth inhabitants. And though Oliver Queen is dead, the mantle of Arrow has been passed down to his daughter, who will also be getting her own spin-off show. As in. First, the multiverse, though very large, might be able to explore only a finite number of different states, just like an ordinary box of gas. ", "The Flash Recap with Spoilers: Barry Faces Off With Thawne in "The Exorcism of Nash Wells", "Legends of Tomorrow recap: Star City 2046", "Crisis on Infinite Earths Makes a Major Legends of Tomorrow Retcon", "I'll admit it: I'm in a dry spell. It is stated that most of this Earth's Legends have retired and one died. It is like a swirling cloud that, all of a sudden, just so happens to take the shape of a person. Unfortunately, the predictions we arrive at disagree violently with observations. On this Earth, Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and Jimmy Olsen tried to create their own superhero using thought-powered technology. Also, Earths that were "revealed as a distinct parallel Earth in The Kingdom #2", i.e., part of Hypertime, are marked with an asterisk. the Dark Knight, fought against Mordred and Ra's al Ghul until he was ultimately sealed in, Despite the fact that the two stories took place on the same Earth, they did not take place side-by-side, An Earth where Superman was replaced by two clones, Custer was the chief of the Indian Federation, An Earth where Superboy loses his powers in a battle with Luthor, An Earth where Superman married the alien witch Krysalla and had a son, Krys, Superman landed on Mars, but would later arrive on this Earth, Superman fought a final battle with his enemies and disappeared, Home to Captain Leatherwing, a pirate who fought alongside Capitana Felina against the insane pirate the Laughing Man, Despite the similar name, it is a different Earth from the 1970s-1980s, An Earth where a strange energy has removed everyone's superpowers, Some refuse to give in to defeat, while some disappear into the woodwork and others undergo a rebirth as the Phoenix Group, which is trained by Batman, A version of the Justice League that lives in a magical Earth, This Earth's Batman is a dark vigilante who fights against crime and corruption, while Superman is a federal agent for the U.S. government, An Earth where Thomas Wayne, as the result of his wife and son being killed in a robbery, creates the Justice League, An Earth where the Kents' car ran over a nail and got a flat tire, resulting in Kal-El being raised by an Amish couple, Jimmy Olsen was genetically altered into a Bizarro-like creature that threatened the entire superhero community, Earth-898 is a one-panel image of various Western heroes. Its continents are named "Olympus" (Asia), "Asgard" (North and South America) and "Oceania" (Australia). If our state of delusion lasts long enough for this article to appear, you can safely discard the theory. The Arrowverse will continue after Crisis. Instead, the point is that our recipe for calculating probabilities accidentally injected a novel type of catastrophe into the theory. What are we to conclude? One prescription for synchronizing clocks tells us that most of the volume will be taken up by the state that expands the fastest. The Justice Society of America did not disband in the 1950s, but became Justice Society International and created a mistrust of the heroes who would form the Justice League. Retroactively established as an alternate universe in "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Five". If the multiverse is large and diverse enough to contain some regions where dark matter is made out of light particles and other regions where dark matter is made out of heavy particles, how could we possibly predict which one we should see in our own region? This is not an April Fool story. There is no step-by-step process that sculpts it. Once the theory becomes well-defined by making the total number of people finite, probability questions have unique, sensible answers. The Official Crisis on Infinite Earths Index (March 1986) and The Official Crisis on Infinite Earths Crossover Index (July 1986) formally canonized the "Crossover Earth" where the Marvel and DC characters co-existed, making multiverse-changing events problematic at best. Attributing the idea to his assistant, known to history only as Dr. Mathematically, we can choose many different conceivable ways to synchronize clocks across these large regions of space, and these different choices lead to different predictions for what types of observations are likely or unlikely. On this Earth, Batman infected himself with the Doomsday virus and became a version of Doomsday in order to kill a rogue Superman. Home to Brigadier Atom and Eve of Shadows. The series ran from 2012 to 2015. Otherwise, we would be Boltzmann brains. Lead image: Hubble Space Telescope image of the Egg Nebula. This Earth's Harrison Wells, known as Wells 2.0, is part machine. Tales of horrors prowling the night were once just legends on this Earth - until the darkness returned. The multiverse offers a third waythat is part of its appeal. When Don Page at the University of Alberta pointed out the potential problems with Boltzmann brains in a paper in 2006, Raphael Bousso at U.C. This Earth may have been home to other comedic superheroes published by DC. "Infinite Luthor". Just when things were looking good, we encountered a conceptual problem that I see no escape from within our current understanding: the end-of-time problem. Marvel/DC: Crisis In The Multiverse is an upcoming video game that connects the Marvel: Ultimate Alliance Universe with the Injustice: Gods Among Us Multiverse. Convergence retroactively prevented the destruction of the original DC Multiverse, so all the Pre-Crisis earths exist but in an "evolved" form, though all characters in continuity or canon can be used by writers. One surviving Monitor, Nix Uotan, finds a new enemy attacking the people of Earth-48. From the Amalgam universe to Dark Knights of Steel, Dark Crisis changed the way that the DC Universe was set up. WebThe so-called "Pre-Crisis Multiverse" consisted on an infinite number of worlds, separated by different vibrational frequencies. We still find ourselves making absurd predictions. 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). If, on the contrary, the universe has an infinite number of available states, then our usual statistical techniques are not predictive, and we are stuck. Our job is to develop a similar statistical understanding of events in the multiverse. Earth-13's Bruce Wayne remains its last survivor and is held prisoner on Mars in the main universe of, This Earth was destroyed when it was torn apart in a collision with Earth-9, due to a Bleed quake caused by one of the Monitors, Real designation unknown, this Earth derives its name from the superhero Mister Majestic, the alternate version of Superman, Real designation unknown, this Earth derives its name from the Omega symbol used by Darkseid. Butthings happened differently in the Dark Multiverse! Its orbit was used as a gathering for the Council of Luthors. In many ways, the number of Worlds is now infinite. This Harrison Wells, known as Sonny Wells, speaks with an Italian accent. Therefore, when you wake up, its reasonable to bet that you most likely took a short nap. She was wrong. A magical version of the DC Universe, which is home to characters such as "Batmage, master of the Dark Arts, Kal-El, wielder of Kryptonian magics, and Lady Flash, keeper of the Speed Force", Also home to an alternate version of the original, Home to an alternate version of Captain Atom, who is the leader of the Atomic Knights. Bruce Wayne's family lost their fortune during the, Under the name Lexo, concert pianist Luthor marries Lois Lane shortly before his death, Elected in 1972, Prez Rickard serves two terms and then drops out of sight, This Earth involves out-of-continuity Post-, Home to the version of Shade, the Changing Man from the Vertigo series by, An Earth that was ravaged by an atomic war in the year 1986, The Atomic Knights part exists in the Hypertime versions called, An Earth where a blind Lois Lane marries Superman and they have a super-daughter before Superman is disfigured by a mixture of green and red kryptonite, Jor-El and Lara enlarge their rocket ship so that they can all go to this Earth. Idea Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. On the one hand, you might argue that obviously the odds are 50/50. WebDesignation Era Inhabitants Notes First appearance Earth-Zero: Infinite Crisis: Earth-Zero is populated by Bizarro versions of various DC characters : Earth-Zero's only appearance was in a single panel in Infinite Crisis #6. Mathematically, we can choose many different conceivable ways to synchronize clocks across these large regions of space, and these different choices lead to different predictions for what types of observations are likely or unlikely. The scenario may sound extreme, even silly. So, whenever we make a prediction in physics, we need to specify what the initial conditions are. They now defend the Earth from threats within and beyond, particularly the Doom Legion and their villainous assassin robots. Then you are put into a cryogenic freezer. On this Earth, young Bruce Wayne became a Green Lantern immediately following the death of his parents. It was utilized by the Time Masters as their base of operations before they were killed by the Legends. Yet our intuition about gases must be altered when we consider huge spans of time. This Earth suffered a nuclear war in 1963, The Atomic Knights struggle to rebuild the ruined Earth of 21st century Novamerika, The Bat Man, Wonder Woman, the Accelerated Man and the Shrinking Man live here. Dark Crisis: The Dark Army is written by Mark Waid, Delilah S. Dawson, and Dennis Culver, penciled by Jack Herbert and Freddie E. Williams II, colored by Adriano Lucas, and lettered by Troy Petteri. Appeared as an alternate Earth in the "Crisis on Infinite Earths" tie-in comic. It is not the enemy of prediction, but its friend. The destruction of New Earth would set off a chain reaction that would destroy the other 51 alternate universes at the same time, leaving only the Antimatter Universe in existence. As it was mentioned in The Multiversity, this multiverse was destroyed by the Empty Hand. 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). ", "Everything We Know About Every Earth in the Arrowverse", "We back, baby! This Earth consists of inhabitants from the previous. Second, perhaps the multiverse is able to explore an infinite number of different states, in which case it never forgets its initial conditions, and we cannot make predictions unless we know what those conditions are. storyline in Superman/Batman, the Multiverse is visited by Bizarro and Batzarro. If this assumption were correct, our world would return more and more to thermal equilibrium; but because the whole universe is so great, it might be probable that at some future time some other world might deviate as far from thermal equilibrium as our world does at present.. During Dark Crisis: Big Bang #1 (by Dan Jurgens and Mark Waid), the Flash runs through dozens of universes and draws a map at the end of the issue. Ben Freivogel is an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam. It's a great strategy for creative storytelling and a perfect way to make the DC multiverse even broader, keeping in line with the DCEU's upcoming Elseworlds stories. You can understand the problem by thinking about a simpler scenario that is mathematically identical. It allows us to make cosmological predictions in a statistical way within the current theoretical framework of physics. Tempus Fuginaut. [33] The Bleed permeates the Anti-Life Equation in unpredictable places[33] behind the Source Wall,[32] allowing for transport between the universes. On this Earth, there were no heroes until a league of scientists known as the Justice Consortium created them. We will need a revolution in our understanding of physics in order to make sense of the multiverse. Appeared as an alternate Earth in the "Crisis on Infinite Earths" tie-in comic, where the Phantom Stranger resides. So, for example, it is more likely that the gas is spread uniformly throughout the box rather than clumped in one corner, because only very special microstates have all of the gas molecules in one region of the box. Native home of the Forerunners, creatures bred by the Monitors from all the alien races of the inhabited solar systems after the destruction of all human life on Earth (now called War World) in a war against the rest of the solar system. But then were back to the problem of initial conditions. In a box of gas, this finitude is guaranteed by the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics. 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. While humanity is extinct in this universe, alternate versions of extraterrestrial characters such as, This entire universe was wiped out by a battle between the, Nix Uotan successfully recreated his universe, at first making it resemble Earth-0, except that certain people, including the Challengers from Beyond, had never existed there. Nash Wells' adoptive daughter Maya died on this Earth while on an adventure. So it might be natural to guess that you are waking from a short nap. The Victorian Era has swept through this Earth and a prosperous Age of Invention has revolutionized society through powerful steam technology, and this amazing progress is only the beginning. Dan Didio has since explicitly denied that New Earth is Earth-1. CW is already working on upcoming DC shows thatll take place in the new multiverse. An Earth visited by the Earth-One Jimmy Olsen. A key simplification allows us to do this. [77][78], There are 52 Earths in the local Multiverse home to the DCU Prime Earth, though due to the time-traveling interventions of Brainiac, the Hal Jordan of the Pre-Zero Hour New Earth DCU, and Superman of the Pre-Flashpoint New Earth altering the course of the Crisis on Infinite Earths, an infinite number of universes from previous incarnations of the Multiverse exist beyond these 52. This Earth features a Superman who turns evil and kills Lois Lane. If the coin came up tails, the experimenters instruct their descendants to wake you up after 50 billion years. An infinite number of universes existed guarded by creatures known as the Monitors. Re-established as an alternate universe in "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Five". Nautilus is a different kind of science magazine. Note that Wonder Woman met a duplicate version of herself coming from an unnamed twin Earth in "Wonder Woman's Invisible Twin", (Wonder Woman #59 (MayJune 1953)). Dini, Paul; McKeever, Sean(w),Calafiore, Jim(p),Leisten, Jay(i). A new Multiverse was revealed at the end of the 52 weekly maxiseries. You can understand the problem by thinking about a simpler scenario that is mathematically identical. Roughly, the procedure to make predictions goes as follows. The "Library of Limbo" contains only one book, Shares a similar history with the previous amalgamated Earths, This Earth was created by merging Earth-0, the Vertigo Universe hypertimeline, and the Wildstorm Universe hypertimeline from the previous Multiverse in the wake of the, The only known heroes so far are Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and the Teen Titans (corresponding with announced, This Earth mainly features modernized versions of DC's heroes from the Golden Age of Comics and characters associated with later, Notable character differences among many include a younger, gay version of Alan Scott, the Golden Age Green Lantern, who leads the Wonders; Superman is succeeded by Val-Zod, a black-skinned Kryptonian pacifist; Aquawoman (Marella) is the Queen of Atlantis; Terry Sloan, formerly known as Mr. 8, is a universe-hopping villain; and Oliver Queen is the Red Arrow, This Earth's Supergirl and Robin were transported to Prime Earth during the war, where they assumed the identities of, Following the destruction of Earth-2 by Darkseid, the assembled heroes restart human civilization on a new planet in. 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