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Do you believe in the existence of a parallel universe?

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xmedleft · 51-55, M
Science now describes 4 possible kinds of parallel universes -- but all are theoretical and each is a longer shot than the last.
The most likely is one just like ours, an expanding mass of material coagulating into stars and planets, just elsewhere and too far for us to have detected yet.
The next is based on physical dimensions; that there are parallel planes of existence based on having more or less physical dimensions than us -- and they believe there may be as many as nine kinds of dimensions physically. Very possibly these universes/dimensions can perceive each other, but only in terms of their own dimensionality.
Then there is the paring-off theory; that every time we experience something that makes us make choices that all the different choices and variable results occur, but in a way that each generates a world that goes off tangentially to the one that we perceive. Each as real to the live variations of our selves that ride along with them as this one is to us, or are we the ones riding along a new reality path set in motion by a tangential result? We could never know but each self perceives itself as the center flow from which all such variable events generate.
Then there is the theory that each universe consists of a "membrane" that contains all the data that defines it's realities and parameters. There would be many such membranes, then, "above" us and "below" us -- but likely imperceptible because the differences in realities and parameters make them imperceptible to us through the senses that we have grown to perceive these realities. From time to time these membranes collide and intersect and the mating of one to the other exchanges data like mixing the DNA of mated animals and newer membranes then are created that have some traits of each of the colliding partners.
I definitely believe in theory 1, while not purely parallel it is likely.
I artistically believe in 2, meaning it's fun to imagine, say, a 3 dimensional object transporting THROUGH a 2 dimensional universe, an apple falling through it would look like a circle that started off one size then grew in circumference and the quickly diminished to a very small circle (the stem) then vanishing.
I have difficulty believing in 3 -- now. I believed in it when I was a kid, until I learned about conservation of matter and energy, every second the existing universe would have to double, triple, doedecatouple it's matter to accommodate the expansive nature.
I think I believe in 4.
KelseyR · 26-30, F
@xmedleft How can you believe in three out of four? As in them being possible?
xmedleft · 51-55, M
Yes, I can believe in some and not others. Kinda like interviewing 4 suspects in a crime, and finding one has such a significantly different story that it is not dependent upon the others. In the 3rd theory there are substantial flaws that ride against the believed laws of the universe.