Serious question here: Does anyone think that there is some kind of parallel universe...?

Question

where you are still you but living a different life?

Answer 1

yes I do! I think there is somewhere, where there is an identical person doing everything you do, but at a slightly different time scale.......but occasionally, those two universes "bump", hence deja vu, and the feeling you have been to somewhere before or know what is going to happen or what someone is going to say.... whoo hooo..... scary... lol...men in white coats are banging at my door...... lol! seriously or not... i have bumped into my "doppelganger..",and even my mum said, many years ago, that she had seen me out in town...... when I had not been there......... whooooooo hooooooo!!!!!

Answer 2

"Before getting to why you should or should not believe in multiple universes, there's a semantic point we ought to deal with. If the universe is, as the dictionary has it, "all existing things ... regarded as a whole," then isn't it true by definition that there is only one such thing? (After all, uni- is built right into the word itself.) Well, yes. But when physicists and philosophers talk about different space-time domains being "two universes," what they generally mean is that those regions are 1) very, very large; 2) "causally isolated" from each other (meaning that an event in one cannot have an effect in another); and hence 3) mutually unknowable by direct observation (since observing something means causally interacting with it). The case for saying the two domains are separate universes is further strengthened if 4) they have very different characters: if, say, one of them has three spatial dimensions (like ours), whereas the other has 17 dimensions. Finally—and here is the existentially titillating possibility—two domains might be called separate universes if 5) they are "parallel," meaning that they contain somewhat different versions of the same entities, like your own alter ego." Jim Holt par 2

Answer 3

I think the internet in its self is a parallel universe, just think about it, also video games ect., why because we in this universe, created something that has its own set of rules, its own time period, its own physics, so therefore it has to be separate from this universe, therefore it is a parallel universe, similar but different, so then if we are capable of this, then an other livening organisms, that are more advanced then us can create even a more advanced parallel universe, lol, i feel like im from the X-files, anyway, its a possibility that our universe is parallel, but then thats just to crazy to even comprehend.

Answer 4

To let you acknowledge a serious simple answer, as with art everything can have more dimensions than the human can perceive, some say dreams allow us to enter other dimensions because our brain waves can perceive other information that normally through our senses in active lives would be impossilble to reach. Some say parallel some say multiverse,acnowledging different theories of atomic proportions.No one can mathematecally prove this but some ethereal or paranormal schollars would give you serious arguments of personal experience about other lives other worlds even alien activities that affect the lives of humans. hope tis was usefull info.

Answer 5

I agree with Don, an infinite number.

Looking at it from two different aspects :

1. The wholly 'scientific'. The current drift of thinking in both quantum mechanics, and theoretical mathematics seems to lead in the direction of 'multi-dimensionality'. There is still no single, agreed upon, hypothesis, but it seems that most mathematical models favour at least 12, maybe 24, and maybe many more, super-imposed, and intertwined 'realities'.

The easiest way to visualise this is that if you have considered the problem ( again, we are talking quantum mechanics here, so you have to have read some recent publications in this field ) that there are 'quanta' that, in particle accelerator tests, have the disconcerting habit of disappearing and re-appearing again, over and over.

As anyone who has done even a smattering of basic physics knows, this is technically impossible, all matter ( including sub-atomic particles ) is composed of energy, and energy cannot be created or destroyed. So.....when an energetic/matter particle 'disappears' where does it go ?

This leads us to the certainty that are 'other' dimensions in which energy/matter that, let's say, 'fades in and out' of our perceptional 'reality', must necessarily accommodate our energy/matter when it is not observable here.

This then leads to the typical human habit, particularly in science, where we always try to measure everything, so physicists and mathematicians are busy trying to resolve the problem of just what is 'outside' of our 'Universe'.

2. From the so-called 'metaphysical' point of view, there are many ideas and theories. Here's mine.

I believe that we all perceive in chains of decision, event and observation. And that at each point of decision, think of it like your computer, everything in binary process, 1 or 0, yes or no, left or right, right ? So here you are, looking at the Steak Tartare, or the Lobster Newburg, and you think that you choose one or the other ( normally, unless you are a real piggy ) right ? Well in my hypothesis, you don't, you in of 'split' one part of you consciousness goes with the steak, and other tucks into the lobster, and behold, now there are two new 'realities'.

Take that back to the time you were 'born' and multiply every decision by a factor of two compounded wioth each decision and how many realities does your ( individuated )consciousness have ?

Yes, that's right, billions !

Take that back to the first thought/decision of 'First Thought' ( another way of saying what many people call 'God', and you are so far beyond trillions as to render mere counting irrelevant, so call it 'Infinite'.

Each decison line we take unfolds a whole new 'reality' chain, and thus while it's still you, or me, or whoever, we are a different version, and yes, living a different unfolding life. I believe that if we, in some space/time enfoldment, encounter another version of 'us', that are usually too different for us to recognise.............but some people wouldn't recognise themselves if they sat down on a bus next to themselves !

The point is, what are we doing here ? I suggest we are doing everything.........following every option to see where they all lead.

And where do they lead ? back to where we all started out, the Oneness of Everything, or First Thought. ;-)

Answer 6

If David Deutsch (a physics professor at Oxford university and recipient of a number of award on quantum mechanics and computing) is correct in his explanation of quantum phenomena, there is not only one parallel universe but in fact billions and billions of them (link 1). Most of them are distinguished from ours by only the motion of an atom here or there, but it is concievable that some of the more distant ones might have the properties you describe.

Answer 7

The funny thing is that this concept seems impossible physically, but possible mathematically.

There is a part of mathematics called "set theory", which revolves around sets of numbers (like integers, positive numbers, negative numbers, rational numbers, etc.). Imagine the infinite set of odd numbers, including all positive and negative odd numbers. Now imagine the infinite set of even numbers, including all positive and negative even numbers. These two sets are both infinite but they NEVER TOUCH each other. They never intersect. Can this principle apply to universes as well? Maybe, maybe not, but it's certainly an intriguing concept.

Answer 8

No I don`t think there is, I believe that we are organic beings that live a set amount of time like all livings things on earth, (unless we contract a disease and die prematurely). I don`t think that we are unique in the universe, there must be other beings, but not running parallel to us.

Answer 9

This is a known feature of string theory, that hypothetical higher dimensions can divest down to multiple 4-dimensional spheres.

Answer 10

No i dont but i think we have all lived before...call it human recycling, i often have dreams where i was a soldier fighting in battles and it all seems so familiar...who knows, life is one big question with many different answers.