Parallel Universes
 

Everything you're about to read here seems impossible and insane, beyond science fiction. Yet it's all true.

Scientists now believe there may really be a parallel universe - in fact, there may be an infinite number of parallel universes, and we just happen to live in one of them. These other universes contain space, time and strange forms of exotic matter. Some of them may even contain you, in a slightly different form. Astonishingly, scientists believe that these parallel universes exist less than one millimetre away from us. In fact, our gravity is just a weak signal leaking out of another universe into ours.

The same but different

For years parallel universes were a staple of the Twilight Zone. Science fiction writers loved to speculate on the possible other universes which might exist. In one, they said, Elvis Presley might still be alive or in another the British Empire might still be going strong. Serious scientists dismissed all this speculation as absurd. But now it seems the speculation wasn't absurd enough. Parallel universes really do exist and they are much stranger than even the science fiction writers dared to imagine.

Greater dimensions

It all started when superstring theory, hyperspace and dark matter made physicists realise that the three dimensions we thought described the Universe weren't enough. There are actually 11 dimensions. By the time they had finished they'd come to the conclusion that our Universe is just one bubble among an infinite number of membranous bubbles which ripple as they wobble through the eleventh dimension.

A creative touch

Now imagine what might happen if two such bubble universes touched. Neil Turok from Cambridge, Burt Ovrut from the University of Pennsylvania and Paul Steinhardt from Princeton believe that has happened. The result? A very big bang indeed and a new universe was born - our Universe. The idea has shocked the scientific community; it turns the conventional Big Bang theory on its head. It may well be that the Big Bang wasn't really the beginning of everything after all. Time and space all existed before it. In fact Big Bangs may happen all the time.

Of course this extraordinary story about the origin of our Universe has one alarming implication. If a collision started our Universe, could it happen again? Anything is possible in this extra-dimensional cosmos. Perhaps out there in space there is another universe heading directly towards us - it may only be a matter of time before we collide.

so .... what? to many words

They should write a sci-fi book.

If you want to read something really freaky, look for information on the lightwave tests. They are pretty complicated, but let me give a half-assed summary.

If you shine two sources of light through to holes in solid matter placed near one another, they interfere with each other and cause a mesurable distortion. Now, logic would say that when you shine only one light, it would not show signs of this distortion but in fact it does. The latest theory I read on this is that the single-light interference is caused by another energy source in a parallel reality.

The above is a VERY shitty synopsis. There is a lot more detail dealing with how much light is let through, exactly what the pattern of distortion is and why it should not happen without a second light source. Dig up some physics journals or hit Google for more information. Truly, it's a thought-provoking read.

SpaceAce

So if I understand you correctly this could be an example of the parallel universe?

http://www.thejump.net/humor/UglyBuck.jpg

yup!

That's what I figured. That means then in the war on terrorism in the other universe instead of looking for Osama we might need to hunt down:

http://tonterias.iespana.es/tonteria...tali-tubby.jpg

thats funny - my kind of fun

:thumbsup

Some new memorial is being dedicated to Einstein in the next few days. What if it turns out his theory is wrong? :winkwink:

All of Einstein's theories will eventually prove themselves wrong.. they will lead to new theories and they again will prove themselves wrong.. it will just keep on going until life on earth or by then life in our universe or life in general is over. now will life ever be over? I mean everywhere? why not?