" ... there are infinitudes of worlds to work with. There are even an infinite number in which we are having exactly the same conversation as this right now [or in which you are reading this blog], worlds differing in only one tiny detail - which might be an atom of uranium in a deposit deep underground in Venezuela decaying a microsecond earlier than it did here, or a photon in the University of Tasmania taking one slit, not the other, in another running to the two slit experiment ....."
Multiverse and Multiple Earth's |
Now I happen to think that this theory of a multiverse (or some variant on it), has something to commend it - it certainly explains some events that seem odd. For example, the occasional appearance of people who have claimed to be out of time i.e. from the past, or people who just disappear with no trace, after all the alternative is that millions of people worldwide are murdered, or are able to hide themselves every year.
Its my suspicion that we are all travelling (or transitioning) between multiple versions of Earth all the time, because the barriers between 'worlds differing in only one tiny detail', are no barriers to us. We are considerably more relevant than a photon for example .... but that while we can move between these closely related Earth's, where the difference is more than just an atom (and we are in fact unique within these closely related multi-verses), we can't cross over into those versions of reality, where there exists another version of us, or where the reality differs by too great a margin. e.g The Saxons won the Battle of Hastings in 1066, or the Mongols conquered Japan etc.
To illustrate what I am talking about, when I was about 15 years old, I got up to go to school about 8:15 am, I saw no one in the house, and I walked to the bus stop (about a third of a mile away), in a cocoon of near total silence - I saw no cars, and none passed me on the normally very busy main road, and while I could dimly hear 'traffic noises', it was distant, and almost as though muffled through a heavy fog or snow (although it was only September). I got to the bus stop on a major road, no one was there, this despite the fact that this was the standard stop for school children, and should have been busy.
All this was so vivid an event, that even now, decades later, I can recall it with almost total clarity .... my only explanation, both then and now, was that I had moved to the very boundary of where I could transition naturally, and that the fact that a tree that was over a hundred years old, suddenly looked strange, was an indicator that I had been on the cusp of another version of the Earth.
Additional:
By one of those strange coincidences that really make you wonder .... the BBC Radio 4 Extra is this week running a serialisation of 'Undone' written by Ben Moor .... which uses a sci-fi theme of parallel universes.
This story echoes Jenni Randles column in Fortean Times (FT444:27 and FT315:27) Which discuss this subject. It also references a Reddit discussion 'reality blinked and then continued with a slight mistake' - just search for that and it's top result).
ReplyDeleteThis is it seems a fairly common experience which suggests that it's a mental glitch or is in fact reality.
Hi Dave, as it happens I am a reader of FT and had noted the Jenni Randles column on this subject .... I had even mentally thought about writing in, but then forgot about it until you posted the comment. Then I realised that it would be redundant to write to Fortean Times, as I had posted the story 12 years ago. So thanks for the comment and jogging my memory about this post!!
DeleteNB: I can confirm that simply typing 'Reality Blinks Again' does bring up the Reddit story