Noun
parallel universe (plural parallel universes)
(sciences, science fiction, cosmology) A universe that exists separately alongside another universe, as part of a multiverse.
It was like there was some parallel universe we all vanished off to where we had all this sex. Kazuo Ishiguro
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. Max Tegmark
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. Irvine Welsh
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. Margaret Atwood
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. Brian Greene
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. Susanna Kaysen