parallel universe
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
parallel universe (plural parallel universes)
- (sciences, science fiction, cosmology) A universe that exists separately alongside another universe, as part of a multiverse.
- 1998 [1997], David Deutsch, The Fabric of Reality, New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 202:
- Subjectively we perceive this as a single, unpredictable or ‘random’ outcome, though from the multiverse point of view all the outcomes have actually happened. This parallel-universe multiplicity is the real reason for the unpredictability of the weather.
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Antonyms[edit]
- periphrasis: non-parallelizable universe (mathematically incompatible; without a common superordinate wave function)
Translations[edit]
universe that exists separately alongside another universe
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Further reading[edit]
- parallel universe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia