Even before the advent of Everett and his idea of multiple universes, physicists were at an impasse. They had to use one set of rules for the subatomic world, which is subject to quantum mechanics, and another set of rules for the large-scale everyday world that we can see and touch. The complexities of transition from one scale to another twist the brains of scientists into bizarre shapes.
For example, in quantum mechanics, particles do not have certain properties as long as no one is looking at them. Their nature is described by the so-called wave function, which includes all possible properties that a particle can have. But in a single universe, all of these properties cannot exist at the same time, so when you look at a particle, it assumes one state. This idea is metaphorically depicted in the Schrödinger's cat paradox - when the cat sitting in the box is both alive and dead until you open the box to check. Your action transforms the cat into a warm and lively one or into a stuffed one. However, .
In the multiverse, you don't have to worry about killing a cat with your curiosity. Instead, whenever you open the window, reality splits into two versions. Unclear? I agree. But somewhere out there, there may be another version of the event that just happened before your eyes. Somewhere out there it didn't happen.
It remains to find out what reasons scientists have found to tie this incredible theory to the facts.
So reality can be infinite
In a 2011 interview, Columbia University physicist Brian Greene, who wrote the book The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos, explained that we're not entirely sure how big the universe is. It can be very, very large, but finite. Or, if you go from Earth in any direction, space can stretch forever. This is how most of us imagine it.
But if the cosmos is infinite, it must be a multiple universe with infinite parallel realities, according to Greene. Imagine that the universe and all matter in it is equivalent to a deck of cards. Just like there are 52 cards in a deck, there will be exactly the same number of different forms of matter. If you shuffle the deck long enough, eventually the order of the cards will repeat the original. Likewise, in an infinite universe, matter will eventually repeat itself and organize itself in a similar way. The multiverse, the so-called multiverse, with an infinite number of parallel realities, contains similar but slightly different versions of everything that exists, and thus provides a simple and convenient way to explain repetition.
How can you explain how the universe begins and ends
Humans have a special passion - and it is connected with the ability of the brain to form schemes - we want to know the beginning and end of each story. Including the history of the universe itself. But if the Big Bang was the beginning of the universe, what caused it and what existed before it? Will the universe end and what will happen after it? Each of us has asked these questions at least once.
The multiverse can explain all these things. Some physicists have suggested that the infinite regions of the multiverse could be called brane worlds. These branes exist in multiple dimensions, but we cannot detect them because we can only perceive three dimensions of space and one of time in our own braneworld.
Some physicists think that these branes are piled together like plates, like sliced bread in a bag. Most of the time they are separated. But sometimes they collide. Theoretically, these collisions are catastrophic enough to cause repeated "big bangs" - so that parallel universes start anew, again and again.
Observations suggest that multiple universes may exist
The European Space Agency's Planck Orbital Observatory collects data on the cosmic microwave background, or CMB, the background radiation that is still glowing from the early and hot phase of the universe.
Her research also led to possible evidence for the existence of a multiverse. In 2010, a team of scientists from the UK, Canada and the US discovered four unusual and unlikely circular patterns in the CMB. Scientists have suggested that these marks may be "bruises" that were left on the body of our universe after a collision with others.
In 2015, ESA researcher Rang-Ram Hari made a similar discovery. Hari took the CMB model from the observatory's sky image and then removed everything else we know about it - stars, gas, interstellar dust, and so on. At this point, the sky should have been mostly empty, apart from the background noise.
But it didn't. Instead, within a certain range of frequencies, Hari was able to detect scattered patches on a map of space, areas that were about 4,500 times brighter than they should have been. Scientists have come up with another possible explanation: these areas are the imprints of collisions between our universe and a parallel one.
Hari believes that unless we find another way to explain these markings, "we will have to conclude that Nature, after all, can play dice, and we are just one random universe among many others."
The universe is too big to exclude the possibility of the existence of parallel realities
There is a possibility that multiple universes exist, although we have not seen parallel realities, because we cannot disprove its existence.
At first this may seem like a clever rhetorical trick, but consider this: even in our world, we have found many things that we did not know existed before, and these things happened - the global crisis of 2008 is good example. Before him, no one thought it was even possible. David Hume called these kinds of events "black swans": people will assume that all swans are white until they see black swans.
The scale of the universe makes it possible to think about the possibility of the existence of multiple universes. We know that the universe is very, very large, perhaps infinite in size. This means that we will not be able to detect everything that exists in the universe. And since scientists have determined that the universe is about 13.8 billion years old, we can only detect the light that managed to reach us during this time. If the parallel reality is further than 13.8 light year from us, we may never know of its existence, even if it exists in the dimensions we distinguish.
Multiple universes make sense in terms of atheism
As Stanford University physicist Andrei Linde explained in a 2008 interview, if the physical world obeyed somewhat different rules, life could not exist. If protons were 0.2% more massive than they are now, for example, they would be so unstable that they would decay into simple particles instantly without forming an atom. And if gravity were a little more powerful, the result would be monstrous. Stars like our sun would collapse tightly enough that they would burn out their fuel in a few million years, preventing planets like Earth from forming. This is the so-called "fine-tuning problem".
Some see this precise balance of conditions as proof of the involvement of an omnipotent force, supreme being, which created everything that greatly angers atheists. But the possibility of the existence of a multiverse, in which this force will simply be in a separate reality with all the factors necessary for life, suits them quite well.
As Linde said, “For me, the reality of multiple universes is logically possible. We can say: perhaps this is some kind of mystical coincidence. Perhaps God created the universe for our good. I don't know anything about God, but the universe itself could reproduce itself an infinite number of times in all possible manifestations."
Time travelers can't break history
The popularity of the Back to the Future trilogy has made many people fascinated with the idea of time travel. Since the movie was released, no one has yet developed a DeLorean that can travel back and forth in time, decades or centuries. But scientists believe that time travel may be at least theoretically possible.
And if it is possible, we could be in the same position as main character"Back to the Future" by Marty McFly - risking inadvertently changing something in the past, thereby changing the future and the course of history. McFly accidentally prevented his parents from meeting and falling in love, thus successfully removing himself from family photographs.
However, a 2015 paper suggested that the existence of a multiverse does not make such a hassle necessary. “The existence of alternative worlds means that there is no single chronology that can be broken,” wrote Georg Dvorsky. On the contrary, if a person goes into the past and changes something, he will simply create a new set of parallel universes.
We could be a simulation for an advanced civilization
All these topics about parallel universes that we have discussed so far have been extremely interesting. But there is something else interesting.
In 2003, philosopher Nick Bostrom, director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, wondered if everything we perceive as reality - in particular, our separate parallel universe - could just be a digital simulation of another universe. According to Bostrom, it would take 1036 calculations to create a detailed model of all human history.
A well-developed alien civilization - creatures whose technological level would make us look like Paleolithic cave dwellers - could well have enough computing power for all this. Moreover, the simulation of each individual living person does not require some absolutely dizzying electronic resources, so there can be much more creatures simulated on a computer than real ones.
All this may mean that we live in a digital world, like from the movie The Matrix.
But what happens if this advanced civilization is itself a simulation?
People have been thinking about multiple universes since time immemorial.
Proving this will be extremely difficult. But here it is impossible not to recall the old sayings that are attributed either to Picasso or to Susan Sontag: if you can imagine something, it must exist.
And there is something in this. After all, long before Hugh Everett sipped his cognac, many people throughout human history imagined different versions of the multiverse.
Ancient Indian religious texts, for example, are filled with descriptions of many parallel universes. And the ancient Greeks had a philosophy of atomism, which stated that there are an infinite number of worlds scattered in the same infinite void.
The idea of multiple worlds was also raised in the Middle Ages. A Parisian bishop in 1277 argued that the Greek philosopher Aristotle was wrong when he said that there is only one possible world, because this calls into question the almighty power of God to create parallel worlds. The same idea was resurrected in the 1600s by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, one of the pillars scientific revolution. He argued that there are many possible worlds, each endowed with a separate physics.
All of this fits into our schema of knowledge about the universe.
As strange as the concept of the multiverse may seem, in some way it fits into progress. modern history and how people see themselves and the universe.
In 2011, physicists Alexander Vilenkin and Max Tegmark noted that the people of Western civilization gradually calmed down as they discovered the nature of reality. They started with a mindset that the earth was the center of everything. It turned out that this is not so, and that ours is only a tiny part of the Milky Way.
The multiverse must take this idea to its logical conclusion. If the multiverse exists, it means that we are not the chosen ones and that there are infinite versions of ourselves.
But some believe that we are only at the very beginning of the path to the expansion of consciousness. As Stanford University theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind wrote, maybe in a couple of centuries philosophers and scientists will look back to our time as “a golden age in which the narrow provincial concept of the universe of the 20th century was replaced by a larger and better multiverse of staggering proportions.”
The topic of traveling to parallel worlds is one of the most popular in science fiction, but do you know what a "parallel world" is? Once upon a time there was a definition: "A parallel world is a world that differs from objective reality by at least one event." But what if the worlds are practically the same, because there are twin worlds ... Then to this definition it must be added that "this is a world that is physically distant from objective reality in time and space by at least one unit of measurement."
More than 80 years have passed since the birth of the American physicist Hugh Everett III, who more than 50 years ago announced to the world that he had real evidence of the existence of a parallel world. Such a statement was received with great restraint. Some scientists eloquently twisted their fingers at their temples, others made attempts to convince him that he was mistaken, and still others simply shook hands and thanked him for the appearance of an excellent “excuse” for his wife (when the question of where a person was late can be answered - fell into a parallel world and got lost).
These are all jokes, of course, but some scientists really sincerely admired scientific discovery Everett. It was their support that was the reason that the young American scientist decided to consult Niels Bohr about his discovery. However, shortly before that, he received a visit from two FBI officials who urged him to contact the Pentagon. And there were reasons for that. If the rumors about the existence of parallel worlds turn out to be true, this will provide huge opportunities for deterring the Soviet military force ...
Everett nevertheless went to Niels Bohr, taking his wife with him as a support group. Bohr asked him to try to speak out in 10 minutes, but very soon lost interest in what the young scientist was saying, and then completely said that his ideas were untenable.
However, people believed in the fact that there is some kind of entrance to parallel worlds in ancient times, but there was no scientific evidence for this. This is also believed by English scientists, who, as evidence, cite the case of mysterious disappearances in Kent in the "House of Laughter". In 1998, four visitors did not come out. The police were involved in the search for the children, but no trace of the children could be found. Three years later, history repeated itself. This time two more children disappeared, and then another. Remarkably, all the children knew each other well, and the disappearances took place on the last Thursdays of the month.
Russian scientists also believe that parallel worlds exist. So, for example, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences Vladimir Arshinov claims that we are not talking about 2-3 models of the existence of worlds, but there may be 267 units.
You ask: How to get there? Finding the entrance to another world is not very easy. But perhaps this is for the best, since the cases when a person who got there successfully returned back are much less cases with absolute disappearance.
IN Lately the theme of parallel worlds has become especially relevant and fashionable. It is often resorted to in cases where it is impossible to explain the nature of a particular physical phenomenon.
In the archives of each country there is a large amount of information about mysterious disappearances, which, as a rule, remain outside the scope of science. And there is a reason for this - it is almost impossible to comprehend the causes of mysterious events, and it will not work to defend a candidate (you can just ruin your scientific career). Fortunately, there is an insignificant part of scientists who nevertheless undertake to conduct research on mysterious movements. And an increasing number of them are inclined to think that the theory of the existence of parallel worlds has every right to exist.
The main position of the theory is the assertion that the existence of several parallel worlds is possible in the Universe, and humanity can communicate with most of them. The simplest form of communication is sleep. The subconscious of a person during sleep draws the necessary information, and the speed of its transmission is much higher than the same speed in the real world: in a few hours of sleep a person can "live" not only months, but also years of his life, and in one minute of sleep a person can the whole movie.
But in a dream, people can see not only those objects that surround them in real life. Everyday life. Sometimes a person also dreams of some incomprehensible, strange, indefinite images that are not similar to any of the objects that actually exist. Where do they come from?
The vast Universe consists of small atoms that have great internal energy, while remaining invisible to humans. Nevertheless, no one denies the fact of their existence, since man himself consists of atoms. Atoms are in constant motion, while their vibrations have different frequencies, speeds and directions of movement. Due to this, humanity can exist.
Let's think about what would happen if a person could move at the speed of radio waves. Then, to go around the whole Earth and again it would take some fractions of a second to be in the same place. At the same time, there would be enough time to consider the flickering islands, continents and oceans. And outside observers would not even notice anything, since the human eye cannot fix such high-speed movement.
Now imagine that the same world exists nearby, but the speed of its movement is several orders of magnitude higher than ours. Then, of course, we would not be able to fix it, but our subconscious mind always does it. Therefore, there is a feeling that the person you see for the first time in your life is familiar to you, or you have already been in one place or another, although you know for sure that you are not. But no matter how hard you try to remember, you will not succeed, because it happened somewhere at the intersection of the worlds. This is how the contact of the worlds having different speed, and it is then that mysterious cases occur that have no real explanation yet.
In 1901, two schoolteachers E. Jourden and A. Mauberly decided to go on a tour of Paris for the Easter holidays. Before that, they had never been to France, so they were amazed by the magnificence of the architecture of Paris. When they were on a tour of the Palace of Versailles, one mysterious incident happened to them. After a detailed inspection of the castle itself, the women went to the Small Trianon, which was located on the territory of the palace. But since they didn’t have a plan, it’s understandable that they got lost. Soon they met two men dressed in 18th century costumes. Mistaking them for servants, the teachers asked for directions. The men looked at them strangely, and without saying a word, pointed in an indefinite direction. Soon the women met a young woman with a child in an old-fashioned dress, but again did not attach any importance to this. And only when they met another group that spoke an unfamiliar French dialect, the teachers began to understand that something strange was happening. However, these people still showed them the way. When they approached the Petit Trianon, they were amazed to meet a lady there, apparently an aristocrat, who was painting a landscape in an album. The lady, seeing the women, was horrified. And only then the teachers finally realized that in some incomprehensible way they got into the past. Literally in a moment, the picture changed, and a group of quite modern tourists appeared in the place of the lady.
The women agreed not to tell anyone about what had happened, but in 1911, when both began to teach at Oxford College, they decided to write about their unusual journey. At that time, they studied the history of Versailles in detail and came to the conclusion that they were in 1789, and the lady they saw was none other than Marie Antoinette herself.
There were many skeptics who questioned the veracity of the story. But they soon changed their minds, as soon a plan made by the royal architect was found, in which all the details described by the women were displayed.
The incident described is perhaps one of the most famous, when, in front of a person living in modern world, scenes from the past suddenly appear, but such cases occurred later. In 1926 in London, two women walked off the road and found themselves on the territory of a large estate. When they were informed that there were no buildings in that place for a long time, the women returned to that place again, but, naturally, they found nothing but a road and ditches.
There were also cases when a person disappeared without a trace. So, for example, in February 1964, a lawyer from California, Thomas Mehan, after another working day, got into his car and drove home. But no one saw him at home. Before he disappeared, he was seen by a nurse at the Gerberville hospital. According to her, a young man came to them, who introduced himself as Mehan and who complained of terrible pain. When the nurse turned away for a moment to check the insurance policy number, the man disappeared. Around the same time, the police discovered the lawyer's car, which had been in an accident, near which traces of a person were found. However, after a few meters they broke off, as if the person had simply vanished into thin air. Mehan's body was found 30 kilometers from the crash site. But, as it turned out, he did not die at all from the wounds received during the accident, but drowned, and drowned at the very time when he was seen in the hospital ...
A mysterious case also occurred in 1988, when an unknown man was hit by a car on the streets of Tokyo, who seemed to have fallen from the sky. The policemen were quite surprised by the man's attire, which was obviously ancient, but they were even more amazed when they saw his passport. It was issued 100 years ago. In one of the pockets they also found business cards indicating the profession - this man was an artist of the Tokyo Imperial Theater. But this street has not existed for more than 70 years. The police conducted a survey of all residents with the same last name. One old woman said that her father disappeared under mysterious circumstances, and showed a photograph in which a man who fell under a car was holding a little girl in his arms. The date on the photo was 1902.
Cases of mysterious disappearances have been observed quite recently. So, a few years ago, in a train that was traveling to Acapulco, in a compartment where there were only a woman with a child and a young surgeon, a strange man in a long camisole suddenly appeared. He had a wig on his head, and in his hands was a pen and a large purse. When the surgeon ran for the conductor, the strange man disappeared. According to the left objects, scientists determined that they belong to the 18th century. And in the archives, we managed to find records that Bishop de Balenciaga (namely, this name was introduced by a strange man) said that, returning home at night, he saw a “devil's iron carriage” in front of him, and then completely ended up inside it. Then, in some incomprehensible way, the bishop again found himself on one of the streets of Mexico City. After such stories, he was mistaken for a madman.
What to do with such phenomena? Can they be considered true, or is it better to classify them as hallucinations? But how then to explain that the same phenomenon is seen by several people at once? Answers to these questions modern science cannot provide.
British scientists from Oxford proved the existence of parallel worlds. The head of the scientific team, Hugh Everett, explained this phenomenon in detail, writes MIGnews on Friday.
Albert Einstein's theory of relativity was the result of the creation of the hypothesis of parallel worlds, which perfectly explains the nature of quantum mechanics. It also explains the existence of parallel worlds even on the example of a broken mug. There are a huge number of outcomes of this event: the mug will fall on the person’s leg and not break as a result, the person will be able to catch the mug in the fall. The number of outcomes, as previously stated by scientists, is unlimited. The theory had no actual background, so it was quickly forgotten. In the course of Everett's mathematical experiment, it was found that, being inside an atom, one cannot say that it really exists. To establish its dimensions, it is necessary to take a position "from the outside": measure two places at the same time. So scientists have established the possibility of the existence of a huge number of parallel worlds.
Parallel world: Will a person be able to live in another dimension?
The term "parallel world" has been familiar for a long time. People have thought about its existence since the beginning of the origin of life on Earth. Belief in other dimensions appeared with man and was passed down from generation to generation in the form of myths, legends and tales. But what are we modern people know about parallel realities? Do they really exist? What is the opinion of scientists on this matter? And what awaits a person if he gets into another dimension?
Opinion official science
Physicists have long been saying that everything on Earth exists in a certain space and time. Humanity lives in three dimensions. Everything in it can be measured by height, length and width, therefore, within these frameworks, the understanding of the universe is concentrated in our minds. But official, academic science recognizes that there may be other planes that are hidden from our eyes. In modern science there is a term "string theory". It is difficult to understand, but is based on the fact that there is not one, but several spaces in the Universe. They are invisible to humans because they exist in a compressed form. There can be from 6 to 26 such measurements (according to scientists).
In 1931, the American Charles Fort introduced a new concept of "place of teleportation". It is through these sections of space that you can get into one of the parallel worlds. It is from there that the poltergeist, ghosts, UFOs and other supernatural entities come to people. But since these "doors" open in both directions - to our world and one of the parallel realities - then it is possible that people can disappear into one of these dimensions.
New theories about parallel worlds
The official theory of a parallel world appeared in the 50s of the twentieth century. It was invented by mathematician and physicist Hugh Everett. This idea is based on the laws of quantum mechanics and probability theory. The scientist said that the number of possible outcomes of any event is equal to the number of parallel worlds. There can be an infinite number of such options. Everett's theory long years was criticized and discussed in the circles of the luminaries of science. Recently, however, professors from the University of Oxford have been able to logically confirm the existence of realities parallel to our plane. Their discovery is based on the same quantum physics.
Researchers have proved that the atom as the basis of everything, as construction material of any substance can occupy a different position, that is, appear simultaneously in several places. Like elementary particles, everything can reside at several points in space, that is, in two or more worlds.
Real examples of people moving into a parallel plane
In the middle of the 19th century in Connecticut, two officials, Judge Wei and Colonel McArdle, got caught in a thunderstorm and decided to hide from them in a small wooden hut in the forest. When they entered there, the sounds of thunder ceased to be heard, and around the travelers there was deaf silence and pitch darkness. They found a wrought-iron door in the darkness and peered into another room filled with a faint greenish glow. The judge went in and disappeared instantly, and McArdle slammed the heavy door, fell to the floor and lost consciousness. Later, the colonel was found in the middle of the road far from the location of the mysterious building. Then he came to his senses, told this story, but until the end of his days he was considered crazy.
In 1974, in Washington, one of the employees of the administrative building, Mr. Martin, went outside after work and saw his old car not where he had left it in the morning, but on opposite side streets. He approached it, opened it and wanted to go home. But the key suddenly did not fit the ignition. In a panic, the man returned to the building and wanted to call the police. But inside, everything was different: the walls were of a different color, the telephone was gone from the lobby, and there was no office on its floor where Mr. Martin worked. Then the man ran outside and saw his car where he had parked it in the morning. Everything returned to its usual places, because the employee did not report the strange incident that happened to him to the police, and told about it only many years later. Probably, for a short time, the American fell into a parallel space.
In an ancient castle near Comcrieff in Scotland, two women disappeared on the same day. The owner of the building named McDougley said that strange things happen in it and there are old occult books. In search of something mysterious, two elderly ladies secretly climbed into the house, which the owner left after one night an old portrait fell on him. The women went into the space in the wall, which appeared after the fall of the picture, and disappeared. Rescuers could not find them or traces of tartans. There is a possibility that they opened a portal to another world, went into it and did not return.
Will people be able to live in another dimension?
Eat different opinion about whether it is possible to live in one of the parallel worlds. Although there are many cases of people transitioning to other dimensions, none of those who returned after a long stay in another reality made their journey successfully. Some have gone mad, others have died, and still others have suddenly grown old.
The fate of those who passed through the portal and ended up in another dimension forever remained unknown. Psychics constantly say that they are in contact with creatures from other worlds. Proponents of the idea of anomalous phenomena they say that all the missing people are in those planes that exist parallel to ours. Everything may become clearer if there is a person who can get into one of them and return back, or if the missing suddenly start to appear in our world and accurately describe how they lived in a parallel dimension.
Thus, parallel worlds can be another reality that has remained practically unknown for all the millennia of human existence. Theories about them so far remain only conjectures, ideas, conjectures, which modern scientists have only explained a little. It is likely that the universe has many worlds, but do people need to know about them and get into them, or is it enough for us to simply exist peacefully in our space.
Belief in the existence of invisible neighbors borders on fantasy. Or with a sick imagination. That's what the skeptics say. And supporters stand their ground and give as many as 10 arguments in favor of an alternative reality.
1. Multi-world interpretation
The question of the uniqueness of everything that exists worried great minds long before the authors fantasy novels. The ancient Greek philosophers Democritus, Epicurus and Metrodorus of Chios pondered over it. Alternate universes are also mentioned in the sacred texts of the Hindus.
For official science, this idea was born only in 1957. American physicist Hugh Everett created the theory of multiple worlds, designed to fill in the gaps in quantum mechanics. In particular, to find out why light quanta behave either as particles or as waves.
According to Everett, each event leads to a split and copying of the Universe. The number of "clones" is always equal to the number of possible outcomes. And the sum of the central and new universes can be depicted as a branched tree.
2. Artifacts unknown civilizations
Some finds drive even the most experienced archaeologists into a stupor.
For example, a hammer discovered in London dated to 500 million BC, that is, a period when there was not even a hint of Homo sapiens on Earth!
Or a computational mechanism that allows you to determine the trajectory of the movement of stars and planets. The bronze analog of the computer was caught in 1901 near the Greek island of Antikythera. Research into the device began in 1959 and continues to this day. In the 2000s, it was possible to calculate the approximate age of the artifact - the 1st century BC.
So far nothing indicates a fake. Three versions remain: the computer was invented by representatives of an unknown ancient civilization, lost by time travelers or ... thrown by people from other worlds.
3. Victim of teleportation
The mysterious story of the Spaniard Lerin Garcia began on a typical July morning, when she woke up in an alien reality. But I did not immediately understand what had happened. The year was still 2008, Lerin was 41 years old, she was in the same city and house where she went to bed.
Only now the pajamas and bed linen changed color dramatically during the night, and the closet escaped to another room. There was no office where Lerin worked for 20 years. Soon, the ex-fiance, dismissed six months ago, materialized “at home”. Where did the current friend of the heart go, even a private detective could not find out ...
Alcohol and drug tests came back negative. Like a psychiatric consultation. The doctor attributed the incident to stress. The diagnosis did not satisfy Lerin and prompted him to search for information about parallel worlds. She was never able to return to her home dimension.
4. Deja vu in reverse
The essence of deja vu is not reduced to the vague feeling of “repetition” and everyday foresight, familiar to many. This phenomenon has an antipode - jamevu. People who have experienced it suddenly stop recognizing familiar places, old friends and frames from films they have watched. Regular james vu testify to mental disorders. And single and rare failures in memory occur in healthy people.
A vivid illustration is the experiment of the English neuropsychologist Chris Moulin. 92 volunteers had to write the word “doors” 30 times in a minute. As a result, 68% of the subjects seriously doubted the existence of the word. Crash in thinking or instant leaps from reality to reality?
5. Roots of dreams
Despite the abundance of research methods, the cause of the appearance of dreams still remains a mystery. According to the generally accepted view of sleep, the brain simply processes the information accumulated in reality. And translates it into pictures - the most convenient format for the sleeping mind. Solution number two - the nervous system sends chaotic signals to the sleeping person. They are transformed into colorful visions.
According to Freud, in a dream we access the subconscious. Freed from the censorship of consciousness, it hurries to tell us about repressed sexual desires. The fourth point of view was first expressed by Carl Jung. What you see in a dream is not a fantasy, but a specific continuation of a full life. In the dream images, Jung also saw a cipher. But not from a suppressed libido, but from the collective unconscious.
In the middle of the last century, psychologists started talking about the possibility of controlling sleep. Appropriate aids have appeared. The most famous was the three-volume instruction of the American psychophysiologist Stephen LaBerge.
6. Lost between two Europes
In 1952, a strange passenger appeared at the Tokyo airport. Judging by the visas and customs stamps in his passport, over the past 5 years he has flown to Japan many times. But in the column "Country" there was a certain Taured. The owner of the document assured that his homeland is a European state with a thousand-year history. The "stranger" presented a driver's license and bank statements obtained in the same mysterious country.
Surprised no less than the customs officers, citizen Taureda was left for the night in the nearest hotel. The immigration officers who arrived the next morning did not find him. According to the receptionist, the guest did not even leave the room.
The Tokyo police found no trace of the missing Taured. Either he slipped through the window on the 15th floor, or managed to teleport back.
7 Paranormal Activity
“Revived” furniture, noises of unknown origin, ghostly silhouettes hovering in the air in photographs… Meetings with the dead take place not only in the cinema. For example, many mystical incidents in the London Underground.
At Aldwych Station, which was closed in 1994, the fearless British hold parties, make films and periodically see a female figure walking along the tracks. On the subway section near the British Museum, the mummy of an ancient Egyptian princess is in charge. Since the 1950s, a dandy has been coming to Covent Garden, dressed in the fashion of the late 19th century and literally melting before our eyes when they pay attention to him ...
Materialists brush aside dubious facts, believing
contacts with the spirits of hallucinations, mirages and outright lies of the narrators. Then why has humanity been clinging to ghost stories for centuries? Perhaps the mythical realm of the dead is one of the alternative realities?
8. The fourth and fifth dimensions
The length, height and width visible to the eye have already been studied along and across. What can not be said about the other two dimensions, which are absent in Euclidean (traditional) geometry.
The scientific community has not yet delved into the subtleties of the space-time continuum discovered by Lobachevsky and Einstein. But there has already been talk about a higher - the fifth in a row - dimension, accessible only to owners of psychic talents. It is also open to those who expand their consciousness through spiritual practices.
If we put aside the conjectures of science fiction writers, almost nothing is known about the non-obvious coordinates of the universe. Presumably, it is from there that supernatural beings come into our three-dimensional space.
9. Rethinking the double-slit experiment
Howard Weissman is convinced that the duality of the nature of light is the result of the contact of parallel worlds. The Australian researcher's hypothesis links Everett's many-worlds interpretation with the experience of Thomas Young.
The father of the wave theory of light in 1803 published a report on the famous double-slit experiment. Jung installed a projection screen in the laboratory, and in front of it - a dense screen-screen with two parallel slots. Then the light was directed to the cracks made.
Part of the radiation behaved like an electromagnetic wave - the back screen reflected light streaks that passed straight through the slits. Another half of the light flux appeared as a cluster elementary particles and scattered across the screen.
“Each of the worlds is limited by the laws of classical physics. This means that without their intersection, quantum phenomena would simply be impossible,” Vaisman clarifies.
10. Large Hadron Collider
The multiverse is not just a theoretical model. French astrophysicist Aurélien Barrault came to this conclusion while observing the operation of the Large Hadron Collider. More precisely, behind the interaction of protons and ions placed in it. The collision of heavy particles gave results inconsistent with conventional physics.
Barro, like Weissman, interpreted this contradiction as a consequence of the collision of parallel worlds.
The belief that man is not alone in the universe pushes thousands of scientists to research. Is the existence of parallel worlds real? Evidence based on mathematical and physical laws and history confirm the existence of other dimensions.
Mentions in ancient texts
How to decipher the very concept of a parallel dimension? It first appeared in fiction, not scientific literature. This is a kind of alternative reality that exists simultaneously with the earthly one, but has certain differences. Its size can be very different - from the planet to a small city.
In writing, the theme of other worlds and universes can be found in the writings of ancient Greek and Roman explorers and scientists. The Italian believed in the existence of habitable worlds.
And Aristotle believed that in addition to people and animals, there are invisible entities nearby that have an etheric body. Phenomena that mankind could not explain scientifically were attributed magical properties. An example is belief in afterlife- There is not a single nation that does not believe in life after death. The Byzantine theologian Damaskinus in 705 mentioned angels capable of transmitting thoughts without words. Is there evidence of parallel worlds in the scientific world?
The quantum physics
This branch of science is actively developing, and today it more mysteries than answers. It was isolated only in 1900 thanks to the experiments of Max Planck. He discovered deviations in radiation that were contrary to generally accepted physical laws. So, photons various conditions able to change shape.
Later on, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle showed that by observing a quantum substance, it is impossible to influence its behavior. Therefore, parameters such as speed and location cannot be accurately determined. The theory was confirmed by scientists from the institute in Copenhagen.
By observing a quantum object, Thomas Bohr established that particles exist in all possible states at once. This phenomenon is named based on these data, in the middle of the last century, an assumption was made about the existence of alternative universes.
Everett's Many Worlds
The young physicist Hugh Everett was a PhD student at Princeton University. In 1954, he put forward an assumption and provided information about the existence of parallel worlds. Evidence and theory based on laws quantum physics, informed mankind that in the Galaxy there are many worlds similar to our Universe.
In his scientific research it was pointed out that the universes are identical and interconnected, but at the same time deviated from each other. This suggested that in other galaxies the development of living organisms could occur in a similar way or radically different. Yes, they could be the same. historical wars or not be people at all. Microorganisms that failed to adapt to earthly conditions could evolve in another world.
The idea looked incredible, like a fantastic story by HG Wells and his ilk. But is it so unrealistic? Similar is the "string theory" of the Japanese Michayo Kaku - the Universe looks like a bubble and can interact with others like it, there is a gravitational field between them. But with such a contact, a “Big Bang” will result, as a result of which our Galaxy was formed.
Einstein's works
Albert Einstein throughout his life was looking for one universal answer to all questions - "the theory of everything". The first model of the Universe, an infinite number of them, was laid by a scientist in 1917 and became the first scientific proof of parallel worlds. The scientist saw a system constantly moving in time and space relative to the earthly universe.
Astronomers and theoretical physicists such as Alexander Friedman and Arthur Eddington refined and used these data. They came to the conclusion that the number of Universes is infinite, and each of them has a different degree of curvature of the space-time continuum, which makes it possible for these worlds to intersect at many points an infinite number of times.
Versions of scientists
There is an idea about the existence of the "fifth dimension", and as soon as it is discovered, humanity will have the opportunity to travel between parallel worlds. Facts and evidence are provided by scientist Vladimir Arshinov. He believes that there can be a huge number of versions of other realities. A simple example is the looking-glass, where the truth becomes a lie.
Professor Christopher Monro experimentally confirmed the possibility of the simultaneous existence of two realities at the atomic level. The laws of physics do not deny the possibility of the flow of one world into another without violating the law of conservation of energy. But this requires such an amount of energy, which is not in the entire galaxy.
Another version of cosmologists is black holes, in which entrances to other realities are hidden. Professors Vladimir Surdin and Dmitry Galtsov support the hypothesis of the transition between worlds through such "wormholes".
Australian parapsychologist Jean Grimbriard believes that in the world, among the many anomalous zones there are forty tunnels leading to other worlds, of which seven are in America, and four are in Australia.
Contemporary confirmations
Researchers from University College London in 2017 received the first physical evidence of the possible existence of parallel worlds. British scientists have discovered the points of contact of our universe with others that are not visible to the eye. This is the first practical evidence of scientists of the existence of parallel worlds, according to the "string theory".
The discovery occurred during the study of the distribution in space of the relic microwave radiation, which has survived after " big bang". It is he who is considered the starting point for the formation of our Universe. The radiation was not uniform and contained zones with different temperatures. Professor Stephen Feeney called them "cosmic holes formed as a result of contact between ours and parallel worlds".
Dream as a kind of other reality
One of the options for proving a parallel world with which a person can contact is a dream. The speed of processing and transmitting information during a night's rest is several times higher than during wakefulness. In a few hours you can survive months and years of life. But incomprehensible images may appear in front of the mind that cannot be explained.
It has been established that the Universe consists of many atoms with a large internal energy potential. They are invisible to humans, but the fact of their existence is confirmed. Microparticles are in constant motion, their vibrations have different frequencies, directions and speeds.
If we assume that a person would be able to move at the speed of sound, then it would be possible to travel around the Earth in a few seconds. At the same time, it would be possible to consider the surrounding objects, such as islands, seas and continents. And for an outsider's eye, such a movement would remain imperceptible.
Similarly, another world may exist nearby, moving at a higher speed. Therefore, it is not possible to see and fix it, the subconscious has such an ability. So, sometimes there is a "déjà vu" effect, when an event or object that appears in reality for the first time turns out to be familiar. Although there may be no real confirmation of this fact. Maybe it happened at the intersection of worlds? This is a simple explanation of many mysterious things that modern science is unable to characterize.
Mysterious Cases
Is there evidence of parallel worlds among the population? Mysterious disappearances of people are not considered by science. According to statistics, about 30% of the disappearances of people remain unexplained. Places of mass disappearances is a limestone cave in California Park. And in Russia, such a zone is located in the mine of the XVIII century near Gelendzhik.
One such case occurred in 1964 with a lawyer from California. Thomas Mehan was last seen by a paramedic from a hospital in Herberville. He came in complaining of terrible pain, and while the nurse checked the insurance policy, he disappeared. In fact, he left work and did not get home. His car was found in a damaged state, and next to it were traces of a person. However, after a few meters they disappeared. The body of the lawyer was found at a distance of 30 km from the accident site, and the cause of death was determined by pathologists as drowning. At the same time, the moment of death coincided with his appearance in the hospital.
Another inexplicable incident was recorded in 1988 in Tokyo. A car hit a man who appeared out of nowhere. Antique clothes confused the police, and when they found the victim's passport, it turned out to be issued 100 years ago. According to the business card of the deceased in a car accident, the latter was an artist of the imperial theater, and the street indicated in it had not existed for 70 years. After an investigation, an elderly woman recognized the deceased as her father, who disappeared in her childhood. Isn't this proof of parallel worlds, their existence? In confirmation, she provided a photograph of 1902, which depicted a dead man with a girl.
Incidents in the Russian Federation
Similar cases occur in Russia. So, in 1995, the former controller of the plant met a strange passenger during a flight. The young girl was looking for a pension certificate in her bag and claimed that she was 75 years old. When the lady, in confusion, ran away from the transport to the nearest police department, the controller followed her, but did not find the young person in the room.
How to perceive such phenomena? Is it possible to consider them the contact of two dimensions? Is this proof? And what if several people find themselves in the same situation at the same time?
