Is there acopy of you reading this article at this precise moment in a parallel universe?
Dr. Brian Greene, writer of The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos has says that this freakish side of nature may exist; andhe debates its amazing prospects in this 3-minute TV interview.
A rising numberof cosmologists agree with Greene that we are but one of many universes andnonetheless one of these other worlds lies close to ours, maybe only aMillimeter away.
We cannot perceive this world, as it subsists in a type ofspace different from the four dimensions of our normal realism. MIT’s MaxTegmark trusts this multiverse model of ‘many universes’ is grounded in modernphysics and will ultimately be testable, predictive and disprovable.
“This is notsci-fi,” he says, “its real science.”
As study atthe CERN Large Hadron Collider progresses, researchers are talking gradually ofa “new physics” on the horizon, which has potential to help scientistscomprehend more of the unknowns mysteries of our universe.
This new methodologyincludes increasing a better understanding of dark energy, a anonymous forcethat some forward thinkers believe shows that a ‘sister’ universe lurks in ourneighborhood.
Peculiar happenings have been witnessed by cosmologists such asthe Andromeda galaxy, 2.2m light-years away speeding to the Milky Way at 200kmph. This occurrence makes sense reasonably if gravity leaking from an unseenuniverse were drawing the two galaxies together.
Scientistsat the WMAP space telescope just found a force 10,000 times greater than theMilky Way’s gravity, which they believe provides strong proof that a paralleluniverse may be there.
In another effort to search for parallel worlds, NASAmounted the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 at the ISS to record data that mayshow the presence of other universes, some of which might even be made ofanti-matter.
Unraveling this cosmic secret has fascinated worldwide interest.The project draws funding from most EU countries; plus Taiwan, China, Russia,and the U.S.
Could weever visit other universe? In a new PBS interview, Riddles of the Universe, USCcosmologist Clifford Johnson said, he believed it OK to discuss this in thecontext of fiction (see FOX TV’s Fringe), but it’s also something thatresearchers can discover.
Some propose that the stuff we are made of – matterand the forces of our gravity and magnetism – are the basics that stick us tothis universe. They do not allow us to leave our 4-dimensions of movement backand forth, up and down, left to right; and intellect of time.
An universe maybe close by, but in order for us to see or connect with it; we must firstcomprehend its different dimensions. We might imagine them as “new kinds ofsideways.”
Nevertheless,gravity appears to permeate all universes, and it may one day become probableto connect with other universes through some revolutionary gravitationalmanipulation. How might we feel if a parallel world is found near by?
Johnsonsays, “It may make me feel less unique as a person, or maybe grateful; becausemany things I’ve not found time for are maybe being done by a copy of mesomewhere else!”
Greene addsthat some universes may be hard to differentiate from ours; others may comprisevariations of all of us, where we exist but with dissimilar families, careers,and life stories.
In still others, truth may be so drastically different fromours as to be unrecognizable. Specialists forecast that as the coming decadesunwind, with intelligence progressing exponentially, this ‘over-the-top’ ideawill one day become a established fact.
Picture visiting another Earth whereanother you is living a more satisfying life than yours, and you could switchplaces if you both agreed.
This begsthe question, “What might happen if our parallel personalities met; would wecombine our short comings to become better humans, or would we compete againstone another?”
When mightcommunicating to parallel universes be possible? With determination and goodluck, some experts forecast this unbelievable feat could be attained by asearly as 10 years; others less pᴀssionate, consider the technologies essentialfor this to happen could fall into place over the next 50-to-100 years. Staytuned.
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