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It is becoming generally recognised, if not fully accepted, that universes exist other than our own. Of course there are. The maths proves it apparently. And even without the maths, what an unimaginable arrogance it would be to think that we might be the one and only. Of anything. Again, I am not going to wring through the arguments here. I am willing to accept that people who are smarter than me have thought this stuff through and are correct. There are likely an INFINITE number of other universes, though our humble brains can recognise just one. Right now, we are limited to using the only tool which we have, logic, to explore the only universe which we can see.

So let’s try thinking outside the box again. Let’s stop imagining these other universes as circular blobs all piled together like a heap of basketballs. I know you were. That would be the natural way to consider it. Instead, think of a relationship more intertwined. Something more like a packet of dried pasta where lots of irregular shapes are interwoven, touching at irregular points. All shapes and sizes from the infinitesimal to the unimaginably vast. A much more likely scenario.

Not only are these alternate universes likely to differ in shape and size, but also in strength. Both weaker and stronger. Sideways and backwards. Back to front. Upside down and inside out.

Actually, don’t for a second consider any type of structure as being impossible. Our very own universe is totally impossible in a thousand different ways. To exist as it does requires that hydrogen be converted to helium in an incredibly precise manner. Tweak the numbers even slightly and we wouldn’t be here. How many millions of trial universes must have taken place before that one balanced out? But I digress.

With all these different shapes and sizes there will inevitably be sharp edges and round ones and some places where Universes press harder against each other than in others. Again, this is only reasonable. It is also likely that where these points touch it would cause some kind of friction. An area of wear. Like a black hole. A place where one universe bleeds energy into the next.

Certainly a great many black holes were created by Supernova; the explosion of a distant sun. It is hypothesised that the energy and matter from these unimaginably huge explosions then condenses down to an incredibly heavy point. A singularity. A singularity which is so dense it sucks in everything around it. But that theory is just that. A hypothesis which has become widely accepted. Which is odd because that is possibly one of the strangest and most irrational hypotheses of all time.

Isn’t it more likely that the sheer unimaginable power of an exploding sun has blasted a hole in the fabric of our Universe creating an energy leak? A leak which sucks in everything around it, ejecting the material it secures from our Universe into the one next door. Increasing it in size? That a black hole is nothing more than a giant a leak?

When I see a whirlpool draining water from my bath, my first thought isn’t that there is some tiny dense pin head down there sucking the water into an ever-denser point. My first thought is that there is a leak (or in this case, a plughole) and the water is running off elsewhere. This is almost certainly the case with matter disappearing down into a black hole.

Therefore, intuitively we would also expect to find leaks coming back in the other direction, into our own universe, and driving the expansion of its size. These would have to be huge eruptions of energy coming seemingly from out of nowhere. And of course, now we know that there are.

These surges have only recently been found to exist. They are phenomena the scientists presently quantify as something else; as huge Gamma ray bursts such as GRB060614. The scientists currently define these as “white stars” or perhaps as a long burst of energy which comes without a Supernova. In short, they currently have no idea. But whatever name you chose to give to these eruptions, they produce an unimaginable burst of energy which appears from a presently undefined source.

Surely it’s not beyond the wit of man to imagine that these energy bursts are the reverse of our own black holes. A leak from a parallel universe pouring energy back into our own. After all, where else is all the stuff coming from that is filling the space of our own universe as it grows inexorably larger? Which it is.

The point here is that not only do alternate universes exist, but that they are likely interconnected. Black holes and white holes would seem to be just the most obvious link. Though, as explained, not all of these leakages need to have been created by the unimaginable power of a supernova. Some will just be the result of millennia of wear and tear.

As discussed, it would also seem probable that these parallel universes aren’t parallel at all but are instead intertwined to the point where one actually merges with another, both sharing certain features and capacities. These alternate universes could be in fact inhabiting the same physical space as our own. Instead of a universe being solid with occasional holes caused by rubbing points, perhaps they are more like sieves. Maybe they are mists running through and in and out of each other. Almost completely ephemeral.

(Ephemeral would help with a lot of issues. If we stop seeing structures as solid a whole lot of possibilities open up. And lets face it, we know universes aren’t solid. Nothing is solid. Universes are made up of atoms which themselves are full of clouds of electrons with spaces in between).

Having infinite intertwined universes would explain a lot. No more worrying about how those pesky UFO’s manage to travel millions of light years to get here. Because they don’t. They simply have to ship in and out from the universe entangled next door. Which I’d imagine is a far simpler proposition once you know the trick.

Now let’s stretch that same concept further and apply this theory to CT. Telepathy would no longer be constrained by the limitations of the physics of our own universe. Instead of worrying about how we might pick up a message being transmitted from some location maybe miles away, transmitted thoughts could instead be sitting there just a whisper away from us in a matching intertwined universe. Right there. Messages being pushed across to you from a point no more than a hairs breadth in front of your mind.

Okay, we have gone way out there. It’s probably the mention of UFO’s that has thrown you and I shouldn’t have used it, but it does handily illustrate the point.

Further evidence of alternate universes is surely dark matter. Dark matter is a form of matter believed by scientists to account for approximately 85% of the volume of the universe.

The short explanation of dark matter is that the scientists don’t know what it is at all. No idea. It’s material which must exist to explain all the gravitational theories which have been settled upon. For example, without this extra invisible bulk galaxies would be flying around all over the place. If for that reason alone, we can be pretty sure some form of what is known as dark matter is genuinely out there.

As ever the people far smarter than me have agreed by calculation that 85% of the universe is not observable to existing science. Oh, and from those same calculations, 95% of the universe’s energy is not observable either. All in all, quite a bit missing.

Is it not at least possible, even probable, that dark matter and dark energy are comprised of those other universes intermingling with our own?

So, to summarise. Multiple universes DO exist. They will be intertwined. They will be exchanging properties. They will be right in front of your face.

It’s a concept that explains the very likely probability of CT being unimaginably close. Not something distant and remote but right within our grasp.