Introduction Have you ever wondered if you had made a different decision to the one you had made say last year or the year before that? What would life be like now? Parallel Universes are similar to our own but decisions have gone the other way. Some Universes', the changes may be slight, you didn't make a fool of yourself the other night or worst, Nazi Germany won the Second World War. The television series Sliders starring Jerry O'Connel takes this as its theme as they visit different worlds every episode. Parallel Universes is the more common term of these two. Alternate Universe is another term to describe a Multiverse. In an alternate universe, the Earth can be radically different. Harry Turttledove writes a lot of stories based around an alternate world. He talks about aliens gate-crashing the Second World War or weapons of today being used in wars of yesterday.
Is there Proof? The main evidence of an existance of the multiverse is the activities of particles in Quantum Mechanics. They are able to be in many places at once. A lot of theories that have been created to explain Quantum Mechanics cannot stand up unless the multiverse exists.
What is Super String Theory (SST) ? At the moment this is no one whole unifying theory of everything (TOE), at the moment the sciences of the very large and the very small ( Quantum Mechanics ) do match up. The SST provides some way in matching the two sciences up. It is a belief that at the heart of everything including atoms are tiny, tiny, miniscure vibratings strings. The science of SST points to there being a strong case for the Multiverse. In it, SST provides answers for 10 of the 11 known dimensions. In these other universes, the physics may be different.
Multiverse in Star Trek The Multiverse first appears in the episode 'Mirror, Mirror' in the original series. The Multiverse is the opposite, the United Space Federation are a war hungry force who leaders use threats and torture to show their authority. Kirk, McCoy and Uhura fall into the other universe through a transporter malfunction. Their alternate equivalent come to our world. Before leaving their universe, Kirk plants seeds of doubt in the mind of Spock. This has an effect on him which ripples through the mirror universe. The alternate federation dematerializes, in effect they no longer go out and attack. They also become less able to defend themselves. In Deep Space Nine, members of the DS9 travel to the mirror universe on a number of ocassions and discover that that universe has fallen to the Alliance ( Klingons and Cardassians ). The worlds in the Star Trek are grim compared to our own.
Multiverse in Farscape When John Crichton travels through a wormhole, he is captured by an Ancient. He sends John through a number of unrealized realities. These are essentially parallel/alternate worlds. In one, the Scarrans have found Earth and have genetically altered people. Another world, John is a Peacekeeper who has to kill Sikozu.
Multiverse in Sliders By far the most well known series based on the principles of the Multiverse is this one. It is dedicated solely to the subject of parallel worlds. It follows four people who travel through a multiverse portal machine. Each episode they have to survive their new world in order to the progress to the next. Amongst the stories are Dinosaurs not being wiped out, Russians have invaded America and
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