Alternative realities. Do you believe they could actually exist?

[Petr87]

If at some point in time I came to a crossroads, and turned left, could there be, or is there in fact, a nearby parallel universe in which I turned right? And one where I went straight ahead, and another where I turned around and went back the way I came?

Yes, I believe they could, or actually do, exist.

No, that makes no sense.

Other/not sure.

[smølf]

According to the theory of parallel universes, there is a universe for every possible outcome of a given event. This means that if you were to come to a crossroads and turn left, there would be a parallel universe in which you turned right, another in which you went straight ahead, and another in which you turned around and went back the way you came.

This theory is not proven, but is based on the principles of quantum mechanics and has been studied by many physicists, including Hugh Everett, who proposed the idea of the many-worlds interpretation. However, the existence of parallel universes remains a topic of philosophical debate rather than a scientific debate at this point.

[KostasKouvalis]

I used to think it was a possibility, now not so much. it just doesn't make sense.

[FreyaRed]

B
If parallel universes exists and they were once parallel realities, it's rather logical that in those dozens of billion years reality drifted due small differences (butterfly effect) so far away from each other that those realities aren't parallel anymore.

[Red-Blaze]

Yes they exsist, same as do as options are options and in a way all we do is just one possible thing out of a million possible options that in the end is all that reality is, an option

[Wade12345]

The Universe we live in is so big that it's possible God created an identical clone to you who then married a better spouse and has a better job and better children than you too... all in this same Universe.

Almighty God could have created an infinite number of Universes, and Solomon in the Book of Kings stated, "The Heaven and The Heaven of Heavens cannot contain Thee (God)."

Thus Solomon, supposedly the wisest man who ever lived, believed in a Multiverse Created by God, and stated that the Multiverse could not contain God.

[AviatorTom]

Just think about it. What if you had decided to take the other job, not the one you actually took. How would your life have changed? Why not think that in some universe somewhere, you (or your doppelganger) took that other job.

[OfDeath]

No probably not. There is a school of thought concerning the workings of quantum mechanics that says all possibilities have a potential before R, but that doesn't mean that the whole sequence of outcomes which result from one particular possibility exist anywhere. It it referring to individual events on a quantum level.

[DarkLegacy]

You want to check out a youtube channel called Strange But True Stories, they give witness accounts of alternate realities.

[genericname85]

yes. they are called "fiction" and there's lots of them.

[collie22]

Heavens in another dimension , so definitely

[LiamJHayden]

Of course they could exist. Actually do? Who knows?

[Fromdusktilldawn]

like a multiverse, yea I do

[strateguy632]

can't

[TheVigilantFox]

No I don’t.

[Luopio27]

I hope they do.

[La_isla_bonita23]

Of course I do