Parallel
Universes
Science
fiction writers love to play with parallel universes, but recently the idea
of
a mulitverse has held the attention of famous scientists. As string theory has
evolved
since 1984, space has an infinity of universes, some of them are nearer than
a
millimeter away, and each possesses its own black, white, and multicolor holes.
There
is matter colder and darker than we can detect. In some cases, time is
reversed,
and
you can truly go back to the future.
You
may need to completely rearrange your mind to understand this. You have
to
get accustomed to the idea that the third dimension is only the beginning.
In
other words, there is a universe in which your mother was born after you,
but
you both still exist. In another universe, King Arthur's Round Table replaces
the
UN. Maybe only the last quark is different, maybe nothing is the same. There
are
more
possibilities than you can name, or even imagine.