Do you believe that a parallel universe exists?

Question

The notion of a parallel universe is gaining in popularity within the scientific community; what do you think? (is it possible, and if so, what would it be like?)

Answer 1

Yes... The Universe if you can imagine, is a trillion-trillion-trillion raised to the nth power layer cake...each layer floating in the same time, yet separated by a micro-nanometer raised to the nth power gulf that separates the conjoined realities...In quantum physics, it is theorized that for every possible outcome to a situation, a new reality is created to encompass the decision made. For example...When you're driving...you see a car in your rear view mirror getting ready to pass you...do you:
1. Let them pass
2. Speed Up to Avoid the Pass
3. Slow down and Pull Off the Road
4-nth. etc.

Now, here is where it gets fun...if you 1, let them pass, they probally pass you and no harm done to you...or will they strike your car when they pass you...or will they strike the car in front of you carrying a future doctor, that might find a cure for cancer, or a serial killer getting ready to strike again...In Quantum Physics all of these outcomes are possible, so in a related reality to our own, it did happen, and a whole new layer of reality was created to accomodate the outcomes. Please google Quantum Physics...or Parallel Universes for more information

Answer 2

I can explain this theory to you and beleive it or not it is a real scientific possibility. Parallel universes help explain the mysteries of quantum physics. In the early 1900's right at the time of Einstien they discovered something so amazing that still to this day we cannot even come close to explaining. An experiment was conducted that would show a single particle being in two different places at the same time. This baffled scientists till their heads hurt and it still does. Einstein spent the rest of his life trying to figure out an explaination. Now most theories of how something can be in two different places at the same time can be explained by the thinking that the particle is here and is also in another universe that is actually located right here amoung us. Now, it does not stop there, they also realize that that paticle is also in many other universes at the same time right here. I read that some scientists believe if you were to shoot yourself, there would be a universe where the gun back fires and you live. I have to tell you that the more you look into this the more questions you will have, it is interesting though. The experiment that I am telling you about is called "the double slit experiment" and the leading theory about all this is called "string theory". They spent 8 billion dollars on the largest machine in the world to get closer to understanding all this, it starts up this spring and will be fun to follow what it finds.

Answer 3

Parallel worlds (alternate Earths) would range from nearly identical to variations of our own history. Some would be ahead of us, some far behind us but pretty much on the same course of technology. And others would be virtually identical and except for some minor variations you would never know you switched realities.

One example - Everything is the same but the world trade center is still in tact. President Gerald Ford would either be alive or had died several years ago instead of the day after Christmas. Perhaps there would be some differences in some of the car designs.

Another example - Earth progresses slowly and about now, in 2007, the Civil War is being fought, or perhaps Christopher Columbus discovers the New World! or the 50's Civil Rights movement is just gaining steam..., things like that.

And finally there could be some leading strain of reality that does not even hint of the same course of development in history that we are aware of. More advanced and or less advanced.

Thats my understanding - and I am firmly convinced of the slight variations more than anything else. I have good reason to believe this, but at the risk of sounding like a complete nut-job, I decline to elaborate.

Answer 4

I guess it is a question that may never be resolved only debated.
We live in a finite universe and one day it will go out of existence
Parallel universes require an infinite chain,if ours went out of existence it would break the chain.
I believe some pretty good minds wishful think,it is difficult to decide that one day you will enter a state of eternal nothing. We are an event that happens once and never happens again.

Answer 5

I'm not sold on the parallel universe thing. I do feel that universes are connected to each other just as there are seperate cavities in a bubble.

Of course it would look much more complex as the bubbles would exist in many dimensions but each bubble only contains its own 4 dimensions. Imagine a bubble family tree.

Answer 6

A concept called String Theory requires parallel universes. No one has figured out how to test this yet. As for what they would be like? Let your imagination run wild: How about a universe where probability is reversed and the million to one chance is a certainty? Or one in which the speed of light is half of ours? Or if you like something really far out: a universe where Geeks can get a date?

Answer 7

According to professor Hawking, many parallel universes exist.
These universes are born due to the black holes and are known as baby universes.

Answer 8

I do not think so. In my opinion, it is more of a mathematical analog of the actual situation.

An analogy: Someone blows a trumpet. The sound produced is actually made up of many true tunes. This does not mean that there are many many many instruments each playing a single tune. However, mathematically, there are "many" trumpets.

The idea of a multiverse also is similar to this analogy.

Answer 9

"Universe" means one reality. The word would lose its meaning if we were to say it had a parallel universe with it, though reality may have more dimensions that haven't been explored or understood, but may have only known effects from.

Answer 10

Yes, i guess that I belive, and I think that it's another whole, well whatever you'd call this that we live in. I think that there are many and that each has different forces and energies and that no creature that lives in one lives in another.