Alternate Realities and Parallel Universes: Are You Living Them?
One of the popular topics in amateur science in recent years has been the concept of Alternative Realities. People got scared when scientists came up with the multi-dimensional theory. That pales in comparison to the concept of an unlimited number of Alternate Realities or Parallel Universes. They can give you complicated calculations to prove their concept, but I prefer to think of it this way … Have you ever thought that you lost something like keys or a wallet that you always keep in the same place every day? only to find it there a short time later? Have your friends, relatives, or co-workers sworn they saw you, and may they even have talked to you somewhere you weren’t around at the time? These are examples of how some postulate that alternate realities intersect and impact our lives.
In ancient times, people said that if you were not a forgetful person and found that things were missing in the house, you could be sharing your home with mischievous fairies. If people see you somewhere you weren’t around, they might say you have a doppelgänger. Scientists despise the use of the paranormal or supernatural to explain anything, so it makes sense for them to offer the idea of Alternate Realities as a more scientific and realistic explanation. His concept says that we can exist in many realities at the same time. They affirm that sometimes the realities intersect and intermingle.
The interesting thing about his hypothesis is that you can be different in each reality, or exist in our reality and not in others. They point to cases such as that of a person who landed on a commercial flight from Europe in the 1950s. He had a passport, driver’s license and other documents from a country that does not exist in our reality. YouTube is full of videos of cars or people coming out of nowhere. With the number of cameras everywhere these days, it is no wonder that any strange or unusual event can be captured on video. Lovers of the final conspiracy say that we all live in a Matrix-like situation and call these incidents matrix failures. I think I like the Alternate Realities explanation better.
The Twilight Zone television show featured an episode about a World War I pilot who landed at a modern airport. It was based on an actual event when a British aviator saw an airfield as it would look later. There was also an episode related to a commercial flight that landed without passengers or crew on board. An investigator came to investigate. The aircraft and the investigator disappeared, leaving only one person who remembered the event. Over the years there have been stories of “ghost planes” that landed with no one on board and others that landed years after take off.
Supporters of the theory that alternate realities are meddling with ours point to the “Mandela effect.” It is named after the once prisoner and, more recently, president of South Africa. Some people are sure to remember Nelson Mandela’s death in prison in the 1980s. Others are not sure. Then there are the movies. People swear that iconic lines like “I’m walking around here” were once “I’m crossing here.” I have had my own experience with this. I clearly remember an elderly couple who lived a few houses away and across our street. No one else remembers them, not even my immediate family. I suppose I could explain some UFO sightings, ghost activity, and other seemingly paranormal occurrences using Alternate Realities theory to explain them. I am not convinced of that at the moment.
Now astronomers have weighed in with what they say is proof that we live in a multiverse rather than just one universe. The Multiverse theory says that there are an infinite number of Universes side by side in parallel. That includes bears. They believe that these can be as different as they are the same. Well now my head hurts! Astronomers say the discovery of a massive super-empty cold spot supports the theory of parallel universes, which is supported by several scientific heavyweights like the late Dr. Stephen Hawking. They saw that the cold spot should not exist as it does because it does not fit into any of the existing models that help explain our reality. My headache just got worse. In the end, I guess we’ll have to wait until we’re walking down a street one day and find ourselves.
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