What do you think a parallel universe would look like?

Question

What do you think a parallel universe would look like?

Answer 1

There could be many, just a slight frequency different. Could be almost the same or very different. Did you ever see the show sliders.

Answer 2

the same, a mirror is considered a parallel universe

Answer 3

I have just studied parallel worlds for my MA. if they exist then there is an infinite amount of parallel worlds which are all identical to ours except for random quantum interactions. you may want to look at these links:

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Answer 4

There is a good chance that different types of other universes exist. It is quite probable that some of them are much like ours; some may even be EXACTLY like ours as seen from the inside. Others may be drastically different, to the point where we wouldn't even be able to understand them. So I would say that to the extent that other universes may 'look like' something to us, a few of them will probably look similar to ours, with stars and planets arranged into galaxies and so on.

Answer 5

Spock would have a beard.

Answer 6

It would look parallelish  

Answer 7

Parallel universe or alternative reality is a self-contained separate reality coexisting with our own. A specific group of parallel universes is called a multiverse, although this term can also be used to describe the possible parallel universes that comprise physical reality. While the terms "parallel universe" and "alternative reality" are generally synonymous and can be used interchangeably in most cases, there is sometimes an additional connotation implied with the term "alternative reality" that implies that the reality is a variant of our own. The term "parallel universe" is more general, without any connotations implying a relationship (or lack thereof) with our own universe. A universe where the very laws of nature are different (for example, it has no relativistic limitations and the speed of light can be exceeded) would in general count as a parallel universe but not an alternative reality.

Contents [hide]

1 Introduction

2 Uses in science fiction

2.1 Hyperspace

2.2 Time travel and alternate history

3 Uses in fantasy

3.1 Stranger in a strange land

3.2 Between the worlds

3.3 Fantasy multiverses

3.4 Fictional universe as alternative universe

3.5 Elfland

4 Other media

4.1 Television

4.2 Movies

4.3 Comic books

4.4 Games

5 See also

6 References

7 Further reading

8 External links



[edit] Introduction

Fantasy has long borrowed the idea of "another world" from myth, legend and religion. Heaven, h**l, Olympus, Valhalla are all “alternative universes” different from the familiar material realm. Modern fantasy often presents the concept as a series of planes of existence where the laws of nature differ, allowing magical phenomena of some sort on some planes. This concept was also found in ancient Hindu mythology, in texts such as the Puranas, which expressed an infinite number of universes, each with its own gods.[1] In other cases, in both fantasy and science fiction, a parallel universe is a single other material reality, and its co-existence with ours is a rationale to bring a protagonist from the author's reality into the fantasy's reality, such as in The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis or even the beyond-the-reflection travel in the two main works of Lewis Carroll. Or this single other reality can invade our own, as when Margaret Cavendish's English heroine sends submarines and "birdmen" armed with "fire stones" back through the portal from the Blazing World to Earth and wreaks havoc on England's enemies. In dark fantasy or horror the parallel world is often a hiding place for unpleasant things, and often the protagonist is forced to confront effects of this other world leaking into his own, as in most of the work of H. P. Lovecraft and the Doom computer game series. In such stories, the nature of this other reality is often left mysterious, known only by its effect on our own world.

Often the alternative worlds theme in science fiction is framed by postulating that every historical event spawns a new universe for every possible outcome, resulting in a number of alternate histories. This literary interpretation is sometimes rooted in the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics formulated by the physicist Hugh Everett in 1957, an alternative to the Copenhagen interpretation originally formulated by Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg around 1927. (See: multiverse.) This kind of alternative universe is often the backdrop of stories involving time travel and is often used to rationalize the logical paradoxes that arise when an author allows characters to travel backward in time. (See: grandfather paradox.)

The concept also arises outside the framework of quantum mechanics, as is found in Jorge Luis Borges short story El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan ("The Garden of Forking Paths"), published in 1941 before the many-worlds interpretation had been invented. In the story, a Sinologist discovers a manuscript by a Chinese writer where the same tale is recounted in several ways, often contradictory, and then explains to his visitor (the writer's grandson) that his relative conceived time as a "garden of forking paths", where things happen in parallel in infinitely branching ways. One of the first SF examples is John Wyndham's Random Quest about a man who, on awaking after a laboratory accident, finds himself in a parallel universe where World War II never happened with consequences for his professional and personal life, giving him information he can use on return to his own universe.

While this is a common treatment in SF, it is by no means the only presentation of the idea, even in hard science fiction. Sometimes the parallel universe bears no historical relationship to any other world; as in the novel Raft by Stephen Baxter, which posits a reality where the gravitational constant is much larger than in our universe. (Note, however, that Baxter explains later in Vacuum Diagrams that the protagonists in Raft are descended from people who cam