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About Parallel Universes. Parallel universe? Is it like Asgard, Thor the God of Lightning's original universe has natural laws that are different from ours? Is there that?
My article will discuss parallel universes, but not in the sense of scifi movies, which we can only reach through advanced technology. It's about various universes that have their own standards of space, time, and laws, but are so transparent that we don't consciously enter or leave them in our daily lives. For clarity, my following article might be of help.
It is a universe that most adult humans are fully aware of. In this universe we face real needs which also require our real actions to fulfill them.
We are hungry, then we look for food, we need money, then we work, we meet hungry tigers and then we run to avoid them. This is a universe of struggle, we don't struggle so we can't meet our needs. I will then refer to the physical world we experience with the universe of struggle. In this universe we move or work with a clear purpose and within a clear span of time.
We are hungry, so we have to be able to get food at least a day so we don't lose energy. We had no money, so we had to be able to earn money before there was nothing left to eat. We bumped into a tiger by chance, so we had to quickly reach a safe hiding place or get any weapons, before we fell prey to the tigers.
This is a cruel universe. You are weak then you lose. This is Darwin's evolutionary world, the survivors are the healthiest. All actions must be purposeful and efficient, actions without a clear purpose, only wasting energy and frustrating you in the face of the new challenges that come your way. And sadly, new challenges will never stop appearing, and we don't always get over them.
A struggling universe is grueling and nothing can survive under the constant pressure of this universe. Fortunately, nature provides us with the means to take a break from this devastating world of struggle.
One of the natural means available is sleep. In sleep, we depart for a moment from the universe of struggle, aka the physical world. Apart from providing pause, deep sleep is also our gateway to another parallel universe, the dream universe.
In a dream universe, space and time are different from the universe of struggle. In the dream universe you can meet your deceased acquaintances, your ancestors, past heroes or dinosaurs, who in the universe of struggle, they were separated at different times.
In a dream, you can be thrown to the top of the highest mountain in the world, the most beautiful city in the world or any other place that you have never visited in the world of struggle. When you enter the dream universe, you can feel your presence there.
Other universes available to us (as well as other mammals) are game universes. Naturally, all mammals must enter a period of training to become adults before they fully enter the universe of struggle.
The universe of struggle is a universe with unforgivable risks, failure in this universe can mean injury or even loss of life. For the purposes of this training, there is a game universe which can be used to practice its biological roles without significant risk.
In the game universe, young mammals can practice the roles of hunting, fighting, conflict, raising young, building families, or whatever else they observe as they experience in their adult life. All without significant risk, and of course full of joy.
In the game universe, there are no strict time limits, no targets to be perfectly met. When hunting in the game universe, they are not burdened with targets to subdue prey. When being a cop and shooting criminals in the game universe, the goal is not to actually kill the criminals. When playing parenting roles, they are not burdened with the goal of actually parenting.
Everything is just to hone skills. Children can repeat the same thing, swap roles or improvise indefinitely until they get bored with themselves. When they mature, they will enter the universe of struggle at all costs. Some may still enter the game universe as distractions, some will abandon it completely.
If the universe of struggle is rooted in the physical world, then the rest of the universe is everything that makes us experience space, time and the relationships between things that are different from what happens in the universe of struggle.
Movies, music, customs, family and religion are the different universes that humans can create and experience.
In a movie show, the inhabitants of the universe are movie characters, time is not linear - it can jump backwards during a flashback scene. In music, universal time seems to stop as we drift into it.
Within the family, the only inhabitants of the universe are people with whom we have a direct or indirect blood relationship. In religion, time stretches from when the universe was not created to the afterlife period that existed after the physical universe was destroyed. The inhabitants of the universe also include supernatural beings that we cannot detect in the real world at all.
When in the world of movies, don't ask: why didn't Bruce Banner's pants rip when he turned into the Hulk?
When listening to music, don't get busy asking: what is the frequency of a flute or guitar sound?
In the family, do not ask: why should we respect our cousins, even though our income is far above it?
In religion, do not ask: why worship God and hope for a heaven that we cannot prove its existence?
Each universe has a different concept of space, time and laws. Statements that are natural in one universe, may not be relevant if asked in another universe.
In general, we live mainly in a universe of struggle and periodically enter other universes for refreshing, resting, looking for meaning in life, running away from harsh realities or various other needs. After we fill our needs with another universe, we go back and waste some of our time in a struggling universe.
Under these general conditions we use the universe of struggle as the primary universe, whereas the rest of the universe is simply a secondary universe. Are primary and secondary interchangeable? certainly can!
Humans are experts at generating all kinds of possibilities. For example: For a world football player who was in his prime, the world of football was the main universe. Life in other universes (including struggling universes) is only a momentary distraction from his life in a football universe. At the end of his career, maybe footballers will swap the universe of their struggles back to their main universe.
Have many people tried throughout their lives to make the universe of struggle just a secondary universe? there it is.
Most religions have a time span that extends beyond the physical universe. Man in a religious universe is not limited by the time of the physical universe alone, there is a time before he is born and there is a time after that and when the universe ends. The time after time the physical universe ends is the afterlife, and there is a focus on the religious universe.
Which one deserves to be the primary universe? It's up to you, choose which one you like the most, the important thing is not to disturb other people who choose to live in a different universe from you.
