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Parallel universe, alternate reality, etc. may refer to:

Parallel universe may also refer to: Parallel universe (fiction) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... // A multiverse (or meta-universe) is the hypothetical set of multiple possible universes (including our universe) that together comprise all of physical reality. ... // The many-worlds interpretation (or MWI) is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that rejects the non-deterministic and irreversible wavefunction collapse associated with measurement in the Copenhagen interpretation in favor of a description in terms of quantum entanglement and reversible time evolution of states. ...

Alternate reality may also refer to: Parallel Universe is the first album by the drum and bass goup 4 Hero. ... Parallel Universe is a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers from their 1999 album, Californication. ...


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Parallel universe (fiction) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (5747 words)
The most common use of parallel universes in science fiction, when the concept is central to the story, is as a backdrop and/or consequence of time travel.
Parallel universes in modern comics have become particularly rich and complex, in large part due to the continual problem of continuity faced by the major two publishers, Marvel Comics and DC Comics.
Fredric Brown's "What Mad Universe" recounts the adventures of a science-fiction editor of the late 1940s who is thrown into a parallel universe that reflects the fantasies of his most annoying letter-to-the-editor writer (an adolescent male, naturally).
Parallel universe - definition of Parallel universe in Encyclopedia (769 words)
A parallel universe, also sometimes called an alternate universe, is a hypothetical universe which exists separately from our own.
Of the theories of parallel universes taken most seriously by modern physicists is the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, proposed by Hugh Everett III in 1956, or some minor modification of it.
Concepts related to the idea of parallel universes in physics exist in philosophy and theology, usually referred to as "possible worlds".
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