Do you Believe in Parallel Universes?

2 months ago. March 19, 2024 at 4:18 PM

Hello Friends,

I believe in Parallel Universes. As a physics major graduate offered a full scholarship to Princeton University (turned it down) in Astro Physics, I find that the ideas and theories in cosmology are nothing new. The theory of a "Multiverse"¹ is personal for me because the theory hasn't been proven yet, and I am sold on the idea. No, though I love good science fiction, this is not what I am talking about.

In the fictional versions, numerous permutations play with this concept: 1, Jumping from one universe to another, 2, two or more universes colliding, and 3, visitors from another (or alternate) universe. You may be familiar with these popular TV series, two of my favorites: 2 Sliders and Fringe.

It is my personal experiences that convinced me. I am walking down the familiar street, and suddenly, I blink, and it is just a little different. I am driving my car, and it seems inevitable I am about to be involved in a severe auto accident. I blink my eyes, and I discover I am continuing unscathed. Typical episodes of De Ja Vu or people claiming to know me whom I believe I never met. There are many "Y" sections in life's path: go right or left, and that is the question. I try to take the route that has been taken less. See: The Road Less Traveled,[7] published in 1978, is Peck's best-known work.³The Road Not Taken BY ROBERT FROST.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse#:~:text=Parallel%20universes%20may%20or%20may,is%20what%20multiverse%20proposals%20are.

2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fringe_(TV_series) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliders_(TV_series)

3 https://tinyurl.com/mpvct84b and poetry https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken