Look at this picture. I saw ‘myself’ the other day on TV. Doing Yoga. A past me. In a place where I never went. This video was uploaded four years ago, in 2020, when I looked just like what I look in this picture. I freaked out! It was like I was looking at my past self. I even have that purple color T-shirt!
But this was not me. I never went there ever. Though I do a lot of yoga.
So is it me from a parallel universe?
Parallel universes are no longer a figment of imagination. Scientists believe they exist, in theory. It seems that a complete ‘me’ or ‘you’ exists in another universe, leading some other life.
Actually, there are not just one universe, there are several, in fact, they are called multi-verses. And there are, according to physicist Michio Kaku, 11 dimensions in the multi verse.
In a recent earth-shattering claim, first by British tabloid The Daily Star, and then picked up by British and American outlets, including The New York Post, it was reported that NASA had discovered particles from another parallel universe in which time runs backward. Four years ago, a particle detector hanging from a balloon over Antarctica detected something physics could not explain. The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) instrument picked up signals of high-energy particles that seemed to shoot straight up out of the Antarctic ice.
Scientists were befuddled, as they believed particles like this shouldn’t exist and couldn’t have been able to fly all the way through the Earth and burst out the other side at such high energies, but that’s what ANITA was detecting.
Quickly, The Daily Star claimed that these were bursts from a parallel universe that ANITA was detecting, and other newspapers lapped it up.
However, these claims were later declared as incorrect. The true story, although, is believed to be far more exciting and strange, involving a journey into the Big Bang and out the other side, though all of it has been drawn on paper.
As of what ANITA detected could be something known as ‘sterile neutrinos’. If particles really came from space, then plunged through the Earth to produce the anomaly, they must have decayed just under the Antarctic surface, producing a shower of lighter particles that ANITA detected popping up from the ice.
However, let us not get into scientific jargon if it doesn’t exactly lead us to a parallel universe we are looking for.
But a paper published in December 2018 by Canadian physicists, proposed a mirror universe — a reflection of our universe across time, of time running backwards.
Here we need to understand that when astronomers look deep into space, they’re effectively looking back in time. The most distant galaxy we can see, GN-z11, appears to us as it existed 13.4 billion years ago, or 400 million years after the Big Bang.
The Canadian scientists explain their theory like this: Imagine today’s universe as a wide, flat circle, sitting on top of yesterday’s slightly smaller circle, which sits on top of the yet-smaller circle of the day before that. Some of those circles, or times, can be seen with our powerful telescopes. (We all know that the star we see in the sky has probably died millions of years ago, as it takes several light years for any light from the stars to reach us. This is how we look past into time.)
So, coming back to it, this drawing of circles goes on till we are drawing a kind of a funnel, narrowing into a deep circle which scientists call the “dark ages”, lasting for millions of years, where nothing was bright enough to be seen by any telescope.
Even before that, the universe produced the oldest thing we can see: The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), which formed 370,000 years after the Big Bang, as the universe cooled out of a hot, opaque plasma. Telescopes can’t see anything from before the CMB.
Looking back in time like this is like looking down through the cosmological cone, or a funnel. Viewed in this way, the ΛCDM story ends with the universe coming together into a single point hidden behind the CMB.
The Canadian scientists look at the opaque wall the CMB forms across time and draw a different conclusion about what the CMB hides. What if the cone ends at the beginning of another inverted cone, hiding behind the CMB?
This vision of space-time still has a Big Bang hiding behind the CMB. They have assumably found that it extrapolates, it extends — it analytically continues, to this double cone, referring to the second universe extending away from the Big Bang in time.
A parallel universe!
Excerpt from my research work: WtF I Found God
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(Just to compare, here is what I looked a few years back):
Life and laughter 
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