Bending Reality

An Introduction to Multiversal Theory

N. Oddone-Bransgrove

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN LYING IN BED AND STARTED TO WONDER, what if there were more versions of you? In the supposed multiverse, there are infinite dimensions with infinite possibilities; there could be a dimension where your cat never died, or you became famous. I’m using the term ‘could’ as the multiverse theory still has not yet been proven, but if it does, anything could happen. You could become a superhero or you could have never been born at all. This is but one of the reasons why scientists are so desperate to find a way to unlock the secret to the multiverse.

Let us look at the TV show Rick and Morty which not only do I think is a splendid TV show on its own, but explores multiversal theory. In the show, Rick’s other versions of himself from other universes build a city in space. Just the thought of that is mind-blowing. Just imagine having one other version of yourself; you could take turns going to school while the other could relax at home. You could make the other version of yourself do your chores. There are endless possibilities and hopefully infinite universes, but as said before we are not sure of that yet.

What if someone had discovered the multiverse and then saw a universe where their life was perfect in every way, and then they saw themselves die in another? They could take their place, live in that area with the perfect life and everyone around them would have no idea and there would be no consequences for their actions. 

Or will there be no consequences? With that version of yourself gone from their original universe without a trace, there would be people looking for them, with signs and posters plastered everywhere, and yet the case would be unsolvable, but of course, the person would not care because they would be lounging back in their penthouse with their few billion dollars. But as some sources suggest, spending too much time in an alternate universe could affect you. They might start to feel weird or sick, and then they would slowly fade away, never to be seen or heard of again. But let us say a government found out the secret to multiversal travel. They could send in some scouts: first into the alternate universe to scope out the place and try to make peace with it or the government could feel threatened by the presence of another universe and instead bomb it to bits – we do not know.

A lot of people confuse the universe that we live in is the Milky Way, but that is simply wrong; the Milky Way is a galaxy and there are approximately 100 billion galaxies in our universe and 51 that are somewhat close to the Milky Way. The top three largest are our Milky Way along with the Andromeda and the Triangulum. All these galaxies hold different living creatures that we do not have enough information about yet and all the galaxies are inside of our universe. All these universes are either far apart or bunched up, but each one has one big difference or many small differences.