Once again it's Qwecy Kwabi and I'm back with another exciting and thought provoking theory. On today's article we're going to dive into the far fringes of science and spirituality, and the topic for today is none other than the many worlds theory or what is also known as the multiverse theory. Far from being something only within the domain of junk science and the hush-hush conspiracy circles, the multiverse is in fact a widely known phenomenon which has been imortalized by pop culture, from science fiction novels (mine included) to films and television series across various eras.
So what then is the multiverse? Simply put the multiverse is simply an idea that proposes the possibility of the existence of other universes or worlds just like the one we find ourselves in and the idea usually suggest the existence of countless different or similar versions of everything we have in our world or universe and sometimes too different variations of events across the many worlds.
So where did this idea come from exactly? Let's start from the ancient world and see what the various cultures and belief systems had to say. We'll first take a look at the Vedic religion Hinduism which is by far the oldest in the world and it asserts that our world or the reality we find ourselves in is not the only one in existence but one of numerous other worlds, some good, some not good and others a cross between the two, these include a world with oceans made of honey and another with oceans made of milk, with ours being the world with oceans made of salt, fantastic isn't it? The Abrahamic religions also have a many worlds theme of the heavens, the earth and the underworld (hell), all these being different worlds on their own. Various mythologies from the ancient world also spoke of something similar most notably the Norse mythology from Europe which depicted a nine-realm cosmos, each realm being a separate universe with it's own ecosystem and beings, the same can be said for other cultures and civilizations across the ages, such as the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Mesoamerica and the various ethnic groups of Africa.
Now let's see what modern day mainstream science which has a rather divided view or mixed opinion of the multiverse theory has to say. Some modern day astrophysicists and other scientists such Neil deGrasse Tyson Michio Kaku, the late great Stephen Hawking, Laura Mersini-Houghton and Don Page among others have proposed that indeed the multiverse does exist and some of them have to gone to great lengths to find evidence for that through research. However there are some some skeptics most notably Sabine Hossenfelder, David Gross, Paul Steinhardt and others who have argued against the existence of the multiverse.
The multiverse is a strong theme across pulp culture and various works of fiction, even more so nowadays with the release of movies such as Marvel's Spider Man: No Way Home, Doctor Strange and it's 2022 sequel which explores parallel earths, Everything, Everywhere All At Once and even the soon to be released Deadpool sequel. Even though there is a growing interest now in the many worlds concept it's been around for a very long time with fantasy books such The Arabian Nights, Alice In Wonderland, The Chronicles Of Narnia, The Wizard Of Oz and Peter Pan depicting other worlds which are similar yet different from ours. The multiverse is also a prominent theme in science fiction as seen in the works of authors such as Edwin A. Abbott who wrote Flatland, H.G Wells, author of The Time Machine, Philip K. Dick author of The Man In The High Castle and even myself included 😉.
The multiverse also plays a part in comic book with it's introduction in the early 1960s by DC Comics with the release of the issue 'Flash Of Two' Marvel Comics, Image Comics and others have also followed suit with various other stories.
Across various movies and television shows the multiverse also plays a major role and there's been quite a growing interest in it recently, movies like The One, released in the early 2000s features a multiversal serial killer portrayed by Chinese martial artist and actor Jet Li who goes across various worlds killing his doppelgangers and absorbing their life force, the multiverse is also heavily depicted in the science fiction series Fringe which featured an alternate universe much like our own but where events happened much differently.
With that said, we can now take a look at how the multiverse works and it's relation with time and of course space. When we look at our observable physical reality, we see trees, birds, people etc all these are made up of matter which one of the fundamental building blocks of the universe, the other two being space and time. Space can be defined as the vacuum or the containment unit of the universe and time being what keeps everything moving, our entire lives from birth to death is totally dictated by the element of time, for example we wake up at 5 am, to go school or work at 9, come back home at 5 PM, we have days, weeks, months, years, holidays, seasons and on a micro scale seconds, minutes and hours, even biologically the human anatomy is bound to time, from the menstrual cycles in females, growth of hairs, greying of hairs, wrinkles etc are all time influenced. However within our construct of time we are made to believe time is linear and moves in one straight direction and once a moment passes it's gone for good, but I and a few others are of a different opinion and we have reason to believe that time is indeed non-linear and not only does it flow in one direction but like a river it branches off into multiple directions each with it's own current, just as a tree grows branches, so does time branch off into other directions. Now these branching timelines become separate realities of their own even though they may be tied to the main timeline, these are what is referred to as alternate timelines. Alternate timelines usually come about from choices made within various realities, the choices and their alternatives all play out into reality hence there's the possibility of new worlds being created everyday from the choices we make or do not make, take for example you get to make a choice between going to college or joining the army and you stick with going to college, the other choice plays it's self out where another you elsewhere decided to join the army and their life turned out differently from yours, so every possibility we can imagine exists in a different reality. This is what was illustrated in the animated series 'What If?' by Marvel Studios based on the comic book issue of the same name. Different realisties coexist all at once and the possibilities are infinite, there's the possibility of a world where the the dinosaurs survived, evolved and even developed the ability to communicate with speech and humans went extinct as shown in the Image Comics animated series Invincible, a world where the Nazis won in World War Two, another one where the South won during the American civil war and even a world where rappers Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G are still alive! Yes it's possible, and another thing to keep in mind is that across these vast realities they're are countless different versions of each and everyone in our realities, in one reality you could be a centibillionaire and the richest person in the world, in another you could be a homeless person begging on the streets and so on.
There are also the possibility of universes with different laws of physics such as a universe where gravity does not exist, one made up of dark matter and another that is made of antimatter. There are also dimensions that are higher than our three dimensional reality and others below it, such as the popular 4th and 5th dimensions and the two dimensional 'Flatland'. I have coined a theory called 'Spatial and Temporal universes'. Spatial universes being the fixed realities that have existed since the big bang and Temporal universes being the new realities formed from the branching of timelines.
So if the multiverse does exist is the a way to make contact with other worlds or physically go there? The answer to that is little bit complicated, there's been stories people ending up in strange lands such as Admiral Richard E. Byrd who discovered a new world beyond Antarctica, the urban legend of a man who appeared at an airport in Japan in the 1950s with a passport from a country called 'Taured' which never existed in our world, he was detained at a hotel and the following day it was discovered that he had disappeared without a trace nothing forgetting the historical story of the green children of Wolpit. All these strange occurrences point out to the existence of realities beyond ours, the possibility of worlds stuck on top of our own and separated from each other by dimensional barriers, each world existing on a different frequency just like a television or radio with multiple channels all actively airing but you can only tune into one at a time. I am of the opinion that the barrier between dimensions sometimes becomes thin enough to allow passage from one side to the other.
I'll end today's article by one of the things that I've been working on and that is the Parallel Dimension Quest or PDQ for short, the idea of the late great Burt Goldman, a neurologist, author, metaphysicist and meditation guru who in his lifetime gained the nickname 'The American Monk'. He wrote about and coined the term 'Quantum Jumping' which is a mix of meditation and visualization that involves picturing oneself going through a portal into another dimension to meet a version of themselves that's already successful in whatever they desire to accomplish and taking advice from them and bringing back that advice and energy from the other dimension back to this world. The PDQ Modules is the step by step instructions on how to successfully perform a quantum jump. It's efficiency is up for debate but there are so many success stories from it that it's worth the try, I'll leave a link below for everyone to take a look at it.
Peace, Love and Abundance to everyone and see you all in the next article.
Namaste 🙏🍀❤️
