{"id":23914,"date":"2016-03-24T14:01:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T21:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/are-parallel-universes-real"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:04:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:04:55","slug":"are-parallel-universes-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/are-parallel-universes-real","title":{"rendered":"Are parallel universes real?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/are-parallel-universes-real.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fmic.com%2Farticles%2F138595%2Fare-parallel-universes-real-here-are-physicists-leading-multiverse-theories%3Futm_source%3DpolicymicTBLR%26utm_medium%3Dfuture%26utm_campaign%3Dsocial&t=NWY5ZWJiNmUzOTRmMGY0MWM3OGU2ZTZiOWQ4YjZhOTk4YzFmZjUxZiw0SEFDSENoSw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Are parallel universes real?<\/b><\/a><br \/> Right now there might be a whole other universe where instead of brown hair you have red hair, or a universe where you\u2019re a classical pianist, not an engineer. In fact, an infinite number of versions of you may exist in an infinite number of other universes.<\/p>\n<p>The idea sounds like science fiction, but multiverse theories \u2014 especially those that are actually testable \u2014 are gaining traction among physicists. Here are three of the most compelling theories:<\/p>\n<p><b> If the universe is infinite, multiple universes probably exist. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>If the universe is infinite, like many believe it is, then there must be huge patches of the universe that are simply too distant for us to see.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/micdotcom.tumblr.com\/post\/141577211203\/the-future-now-are-parallel-universes-real\">http:\/\/micdotcom.tumblr.com\/post\/141577211203\/the-future-now...erses-real<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are parallel universes real? Right now there might be a whole other universe where instead of brown hair you have red hair, or a universe where you\u2019re a classical pianist, not an engineer. In fact, an infinite number of versions of you may exist in an infinite number of other universes. The idea sounds like [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67927,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23914\/revisions\/67927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}