The Multiverse Theory

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       There has never once been a human being that looked back at their past and found only a one-way path. Everyone has, at one time or another, imagined what would have happened if they had done something better, something different, or even turned that something into nothing in a crucial moment of their history. Images of present grandeur or ruin may flood their mind, or even subtle differences that would vastly impact their future, behaviors, beliefs, and memories – for better and for worse.

        However, not everyone may suppose that all of those separate decisions, real or imagined, were and still are being chosen and observed. And by another ‘them,’ no less.

        The Multiverse theory states that the entirety of matter, energy, space, and time is comprised of finite and infinite potential universes, including that which we inhabit. Every decision, no matter how small, made by any and every creature gives birth to a slew of different timelines dependent on that one decision. It is a continuous process that results in the birth of an exponentially growing number of alternate dimensions - each only slightly different from the last.

        Though this supposition is unable to be directly proven, it has long been considered a scientific possibility; the Multiverse theory stems from scientists’ current understanding of quantum mechanics and string theory.

        Take Schrӧdinger’s cat, for example, an animal placed in a closed box. Opening the box allows one possible history to make itself known: one where it is alive; one where it is dead; and, according to the huge scope of possibilities allowed by quantum mechanics, one where it is both dead and alive. 

       One may accept that these prospects are simply a place to store information until the ‘true’ ending is realized with the opening of the box, but one may also accept that each likelihood is true in of itself, just existing in an alternative universe.

       Gravitational force is near impossible to describe on the scale of atoms and subatomic particles (as even the act of observing such particles changes the way they react). String theory, however, states that all fundamental particles are comprised of one-dimensional strings and can describe all forces of nature at once. For this theory to mathematically function, though, it requires at least ten physical dimensions. The four we know of are height, width, depth, and time; the others are hidden from our view.

        There are a number of possibilities to describe how these extra dimensions interact (a very large number, mind you), and each theorized interaction ends with the creation of a universe with different physical laws than our own. This methodology, however, has not been completely accepted, and the matter is a point of contention for many scientists.

        String theory predicts that all alternate universes exist on the same physical plane. Proving the Multiverse theory may depend on the discovery of signs of collision and overlapping parts of the alternate universes. These signs will be, theoretically, unlike the consistency of our universe, such as cold spots and hot spots.

        

       

        Scientists are actively searching for all possible evidence to support a Multiverse reality.

        Should this concept of actuality be revealed as truth, science will never be the same. Should this concept of actuality be revealed as truth, how we as individuals view the actions we take will forever carry a greater weight.

       ‘I may not have been successful, but somewhere out there I am.’

       ‘I may have made a life for myself here, but somewhere out there my life was ruined.’

       The knowledge that one both suffers and prospers all at once is a double-edged blade. What misery have we managed to avoid by a hair’s breadth? What have we denied ourselves that has impacted our future for the worst? Someone out there knows.

       And that someone is another ‘us.’