Sliding doors is a great movie. Beware, I am not saying it's an academy award movie, but it's a smart movie, introducing the large masses to complex subjects of physics like parallel universes: multiverse.
The multiverse (or meta-universe, metaverse) is the hypothetical set of multiple possible universes (including the historical universe we consistently experience) that together comprise everything that exists and can exist: the entirety of space, time, matter, and energy as well as the physical laws and constants that describe them. The term was coined in 1895 by the American philosopher and psychologist William James.[1] The various universes within the multiverse are sometimes called parallel universes.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse
Fiction has sourced from physics theory as science-fiction novels shaped the present by simply influencing the minds and imagination of those reading that one day would create technologies resembling those illustrated in the books.
I was joking on the phone with a friend of mine, about the fact I cannot join a party tonight. That universe in which I can join the party, is another reality, a parallel universe in which I am some where else because I took a different path. This silly conversation had me thinking: how many parallel universe can there be? If I want to play smart I would say "infinite" is the most correct guess, as so many variables can determine as many different realities and universes. If I try to reduce this number though, and really try to think hard about the different realities I am living side by side this number might be significantly reduced.
I thought about life crossroads. The very moments in which I took an important decision, or I made a choice, took an action that shaped the future. With this exercise I can imagine up to 4 or 5 parallel universes. One in which I'd be a stock exchange broker as once I wished to be many years ago, one in which I would be unemployed and depressed back in Italy or maybe another one where I could be living in London working for a product/interior design studio rather than here Ireland.
The real value of such an exercise is the aquired awareness of the thousands possibilities and the weight of choices in one's life. How many parallel realities are you carrying in your life's backpack?
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And if the parallel universes are all contemporary real?
Do you remember the Porfirio-probability joke of some years ago?
And in an infinity of possible universes the mattresses of Sqornshellous Zeta must exists, too!
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