parallel universe
Noun
Meaning
parallel universe (plural parallel universes)
(sciences, science fiction, cosmology) A universe that exists separately alongside another universe, as part of a multiverse.
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Examples
It was like there was some parallel universe we all vanished off to where we had all this sex.
If I get a parking ticket, there is always a parallel universe where I didn't. On the other hand, there is yet another universe where my car was stolen.
Now, for the first time, he's seeing that there really is a way out of this, and it's all so simple. You don't have to run away. You just meet somebody special and step sideways into a parallel universe.
Should is a futile word. It's about what didn't happen. It belongs in a parallel universe. It belongs in another dimension of space.
There are many of us thinking of one version of parallel universe theory or another. If it's all a lot of nonsense, then it's a lot of wasted effort going into this far-out idea. But if this idea is correct, it is a fantastic upheaval in our understanding.
It is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying, perhaps of the dead as well. These worlds exist alongside this world and resemble it, but are not in it.