Other Universes

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Do you think there are other universes out there as well as our own

I sometimes like to imagine there are

My mind can't conceive of settings on a scale larger than single worlds.

I don't know if there are or not, I'm not even sure we'd be able to become aware of them if there were.

I like to imagine other worlds, whether or not they exist. Speculative world-building is just a fancy way of saying engaging in make-believe as a hobby.

And also if our universe is expanding all the time then is it expanding it's way into another universe and then one day will our universe pop and we'll all just tumble out into a different world

Seems to me that more than one universe is a contradiction in terms. Unus in Latin means "One." So if you found another universe (and I bet you won't), neither of them could rightly be called the universe any more. I suppose you could see it like the Holy Trinity, which they say is three gods and one god at the same time, but I never did see any sense in that concept. But it's fun as a science fiction concept or a theological fiction concept, as long as nobody starts taking it seriously.

I love the universe me

It blows my mind away when I think about it. I think it's one of my favourite things

Me too. If it's not part of the universe, I'm not interested.

Are you sure they wouldn't just shove each other out of each other's way? Basically the boundaries can't ever be pierced, so how ever many exist, they can't ever overlap or interfere with each other?

Also, wouldn't a merger kind of just leave our part of the galaxy sitting in some part of the newly made double-universe, possibly even with nothing meaningfully changing on the scale of individual worlds? Sort of like how two galaxies merging wouldn't mean every single planet around every single star in both galaxies would get smashed together. The scale of time would matter too; if it took 100 000 years to occur literally all of human civilization so far could pass before the event was finished.

I think your brain is doing the same thing I've noticed mine doing when trying to consider these sorts of questions, where it's hard to really think on scales bigger than a single world so it ends up back to thinking on a more familiar scale. I feel like the human brain is not really well suited for thinking on the sorts of space and time scales these sorts of questions require.

there is the multiuniverse theory that predicts the existence of other universes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse

Yeah but it's fun

Speculation is fun, pretty much no matter what it's about.

That limitation is why people shouldn't fixate too intently on realism if their ultimate goal is to tell a story or just navel-gaze.

Yeah parallel universes that's what I'm in about

I always used to talk about the multiverse theory with my dad on roadtrips when I was younger.

*Sigh*

Now I want to go on a roadtrip. You've made me nostalgic.

I often wonder if there's an alternate universe cyberdora who's a raving right winger?

Gonna Wanna getta ride on the front of that Hedron Collider.....( maybe there is a way " IN" ).....

Sometimes I imagine that there's another universe where I'm walking down Carnaby Street and it really is 1965.

Sounds lovely ,,,about 1965 but not sure where Carnaby Street is ....?