Asimov's book was about a mechanistic Newtonian universe, and the use of a supercomputer to plot out, calculate and predict the mechanistic future. It turns out our actual universe is not mechanistic at all, and such a scenario is impossible.
Looking glass doesn't use computers to predict anything. Looking glass actually shows the most likely future timeline of the observer. In other words, the results, the future, is different depending on who is looking through the "glass." This is evidence of a quantum universe that has multiple timelines and multiple outcomes.
The 5th dimension isn't multiple timelines stemming from one universe, it is an infinite number of probable universes. We exist in one universe with a single timeline that collapses from the possible to the probable to the actual.
True, except for the 5th dimension part. Our world, whether 3D, 4D, or whatever, is an infinite number of probable universes with an infinite number of probable futures.
Our world exists in a single universe. A single universe that exists alongside an infinite number of universes that represent every other probability.
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