The mythology of many peoples divides the universe into the earthly world, the underworld and the heavenly, "Agni Yoga" tells of existence besides ours, both subtle and higher worlds. V. Lavrova in her "Keys to the Secrets of Life" also divides the Universe into the Biosphere (our physical world), the Noosphere (the intermediate world) and the Quantosphere (the world of accelerated higher vibrations).

Here is how she explains it: “I will immediately make a reservation that we are talking about another world parallel to us on a different energy level. About the world quantum mechanics. Before it, in terms of the energy coordinate, there is a rather wide range, and includes one more intermediate sphere. Between our worlds, i.e. Biosphere and Quantosphere, there are only two large conditional energy differences, but they include energy divisions of a wide spatial spectrum. At the same time, such a cascade of energy levels is not in our favor. The biosphere is at its lowest level. Here the energies are soft, weak; processes are slow and sluggish. But this is precisely what is necessary for intelligent life to arise in it. And each of us made the transition from the Biosphere to the Magnetosphere more than once. This is the same long, narrow, dark or white corridor, expanding at the end of the path and there is a connection between parallel worlds ... We are neighbors. Only for us their world is invisible, living objects are elusive, and therefore non-existent...

The first world is the world of the Biosphere, the home of the protein-nucleic complex. This is our kingdom, the abode of weak speeds, the first substance, the outermost shell... On the scale of the energy level, the Biosphere and the Noosphere (intermediate world) are very close; the world of quants is far away. Two orders further than the Biosphere, one further than the Noosphere… All three worlds interact with each other; like the flour of three grindings together, so they are inside each other.

The ideas of the shamans of the North also affirm the existence of the heavenly world of gods and the underworld of spirits. So, the Yakut shamans, even during divination on runes, divide the circle into three tiers, corresponding to the “abodes of the gods”, “abodes of people” and “abodes of death and evil” or “abodes of spirits”. It is the latter that primitive witchcraft and shamanism use in their practice. Many contactees call the lower underground world the two-dimensional world of reverse evolution - the anti-world. K. Castaneda points to it as the world of inorganic beings, which some magicians use as "allies".

The ancient magicians of the Toltecs pointed to the presence of seven parallel worlds on our planet, accessible to human perception and similar to our world. K. Meadows names nine such worlds in shamanic practices. Such worlds are not only accessible to perception, but also accessible to the travels of magicians and sorcerers. At the same time, two of these worlds are perceived quite easily, for the rest - the seer must have a sufficiently high energy potential.

Here is how A. Ignatenko describes these parallel realities: “Our Universe unites thirteen worlds: seven main, five intermediate and one opposing world, the world of “dark” forces. An interesting classification of these worlds is offered by the AUM system, which studied the laws of harmony and beauty in the Universe.

The first - the three-dimensional world - is well known to us. Matter and energy correspond to the vibrations of the red waves and are consonant with the vibrations of the sound waves "to" the first octave.

The second is ethereal, has no living beings. Energy corresponds to wave oscillations orange color and the note "re". The energy of this world goes to the movement of the living beings of the Earth.

The third is astral. Matter is the gravitational field of the Moon.

Energy and matter correspond to wave vibrations yellow color and the note "mi".

The fourth (four-dimensional space) is mental. Matter is the gravitational field of the planets of the solar system. Energy and matter correspond to the vibrations of green waves and the note "fa".

The fifth (five-dimensional space) is karmic. Matter is the gravitational field of the Sun. Matter and energy correspond to the vibrations of blue waves and the note "salt".

The sixth (six-dimensional space) is intuitive. Matter - the gravitational field of our galaxy, corresponds to wave oscillations of blue color and the note "la".

The seventh (seven-dimensional space) is Nirvana (the world of love). Matter - the gravitational field of the Universe, corresponds to wave oscillations purple and the note "si".

There is a mirror image of the world of Nirvana - the thirteenth world. This world is based on the opposite energy - hatred, leading to destruction. Its matter and energy correspond to the vibrations of the waves Brown, but the note is missing.

In addition, according to the researcher, there are five intermediate worlds:

- red-orange (note "c-sharp", 3.25 meas.);

- light orange ("D-sharp", 3.25 meas.);

- mental-karmic (aquamarine, F-sharp, 4.5 meas.);

- intuitive karmic (light blue, "sol-sharp", 5.5 meas.);

- supramental (mixture of aquamarine with violet, "A-sharp", 6.5 meas.)

Intermediate worlds are a kind of energy barriers between full-fledged parallel realities. It is possible that they are perceived by consciousness as a strip of fog of a certain color, when the "entrances" to parallel realities open. Exactly the same information about the main and intermediate worlds is also given by S. Tsvelev.

In magical and shamanic practices, special techniques are used to travel to these parallel realities, both with the help of the "energy" body, and physically. The shamans and magicians themselves never questioned the fact of the existence of these realities, since they were convinced of this in practice.

For example, T. Marez speaks of ten worlds (including ours) accessible to human perception. At the same time, our physical world is the most “dense” and the lowest-frequency type of energy vibrations: “These ten worlds are reflected in the microcosm in the form of ten points of a person and, in essence, represent ten different degrees of vibration intensity. Indeed, the density is really determined precisely by the intensity of the oscillations. In other words, the higher the frequency of vibrations of energy fields, the more ethereal, imperceptible they turn out to be, and vice versa: the lower the frequency of vibrations, the more dense and tangible they are. From this it follows that the energy fields of the universe oscillate with an infinitely high frequency, and due to the unification, this frequency progressively decreases to ten fixed sequences, with each successive sequence being more complicated than the previous one and having a lower frequency of oscillation. Thus, the lowest frequency of vibration of energy fields gives us the densest manifestation, which we call the physical Universe or, more simply, the physical plane. Further, it is logical to conclude that the physical plane, i.e. the tenth world, contains the greatest unifications of energy fields and, due to the significant differentiation of the latter, has the highest level of complexity.

However, this "complexity" can only be considered from the point of view of materiality. Higher frequency vibrations, and therefore realities, are much more difficult to achieve. In addition, there are realities with a lower vibration frequency than our world. These are worlds of lesser dimension. The number of parallel worlds does not match as compared with the scheme provided by A. Ignatenko. It cannot be otherwise, since each person describes the surrounding reality in accordance with his ability to perceive it. We all know that the perception of a color blind person is much poorer than the perception ordinary person. In turn, the perception of the latter is many times more vague and weaker than the perception of the “seer”. Among the latter there may also be individuals who are able to perceive a different number of parallel realities. Due to the limitations of human perception, any rigid scheme for describing the picture of the world will be incorrect. Reality is much wider and more immense than our ability to perceive it. But in the main, both A. Ignatenko and T. Marez are right - parallel realities exist, and they exist regardless of our ability to perceive them.

For example, norse mythology subdivides our Universe into nine worlds:

Asgard - the world of the gods

Vanageym - the world of light spirits - vans;

Alfheim - the world of bright spirits benevolent to the gods - alphas;

Midgard - the world inhabited by people;

Jotunheim - the world of giants hostile to the gods - jotuns;

Muspellheim - the world of fire;

Svartalfageym - the world of dark alphas;

Niflheim - the underground world of dwarfs;

Nifgel is the world of death.

As you can see, such a multidimensional system includes both "light" multidimensional worlds and "dark" worlds of low dimension, between which our physical world is located. Almost any mythology has such a scheme for dividing the Universe into the worlds of gods and light entities, and the worlds of dark entities of the Underworld, between which the world of people is located. And this is not accidental, since it is a reflection of the multidimensional picture of the Universe, received by the ancient shamans and magicians through their intuitive connection to the Unified Energy-Informational Field - the Akashic Records.

The well-known researcher of shamanism K. Meadows describes these worlds as follows: “The landscape of other worlds where shamans travel has an outward resemblance to the familiar

physical reality: there are mountains, valleys, trees and flowers, rivers, lakes and even oceans. But the laws that apply in ordinary reality do not apply there ...

Other worlds of perception are just as real as physical reality, and your sensations there are no less intense than in Everyday life. Perhaps even more intense, since everything you see and hear has a special meaning.

Information about the multidimensional structure of the Universe can be gleaned from the religion and mythology of almost any ancient people. For example, the ancient Egyptians believed that the universe was divided into three parts: the sky, the earth and the Duat (the underworld), each of which was inhabited by deities of a certain type. The ancient Incas also had a similar cosmogony.

Christianity also divides the invisible worlds into two main worlds - heaven and hell, as well as an intermediate world - purgatory. In ancient Indian cosmogonic views, the Universe also consists of three large parts: earth, sky and underground hell.

A. Sviyash gives the following explanations on this matter: “... the whole manifested world can be represented as two worlds – the divine world of the Creator and pure spirits and the world of demons. The Divine world is a world of superfine and pure energies…

The world of demons is a world of coarser mental, astral and ethereal energies.” At the same time, the scientist separates the demons of the Heavens and the demons of the Underworld. Apparently this is the Upper and Lower worlds in the mythologies of the peoples. The Divine world consists of more subtle and closer to the plan of the Absolute energies (primary torsion fields).

There is a point of view that the riddle of alternative being is connected with a certain “fifth dimension”. Allegedly, in addition to three spatial dimensions and the "fourth dimension" - time, there is one more. By opening it, people supposedly will be able to travel between parallel worlds. However, the head of the sector of interdisciplinary problems of scientific and technological development of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences Vladimir Arshinov, is sure that today we can talk about a much larger number of dimensions: “Models of our world are already approximately known, which contain 11, 26 and even 267 dimensions. They are not observable, but folded in a special way. Nevertheless, they are present all around us.”

In a multidimensional space, according to the scientist, things are possible that seem incredible. Vladimir Arshinov believes that other worlds can be anything: “The options are endless. For example, one of them may represent a looking glass, as in the fairy tale about Alice. That is, what is true in our world is a lie there. But this is probably the easiest option.

However, people are most interested in the question of whether it is possible to "feel", to see these parallel worlds. “If we take on faith the existence of a certain reality with dimensions mirroring us,” says Vladimir Arshinov, “it turns out that once you get there, you can move in space and time without making any special efforts. It is worth returning back to our world, and we will be dealing with the effect of a real time machine.” To better understand this, we can take the launch of ballistic missiles as an analogy. They cannot overcome huge distances in the atmosphere - there will not be enough fuel. Therefore, the rocket is launched into orbit, where it flies practically by inertia to a certain point, and then “falls” at the other end of the earth. “The same can be done with any object, one has only to move it to the alleged parallel world,” Arshinov says. The only question is how to make such a transition. It is this question that excites today those who are looking for an alternative reality.

How to get there?

The existing laws of physics do not deny the bold assumption that parallel worlds can be connected by quantum tunnel transitions. This means that it is theoretically possible to move from one world to another without violating the law of conservation of energy. However, such a transition will require a colossal amount of energy, so much will not be accumulated in our entire Galaxy.

But there is another option. “There is a version that passages to parallel worlds are hidden in the so-called black holes,” says Vladimir Arshinov, “and they can be a kind of funnel that sucks in matter.” But black holes, according to the assumption of cosmologists, may actually be some kind of "wormholes" - ways from one world to another and back. “In nature, there could be spatio-temporal structures like wormholes connecting one world with another,” believes Vladimir Surdin, senior researcher at the P. Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. “In principle, mathematics allows their existence.”

The possibility of the existence of "wormholes" is not denied by the Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Theoretical Physics of the Faculty of Physics of Moscow State University Dmitry Galtsov. He confirmed that this is one of the options for moving from one point to another with infinite speed. “True,” the physicist noted, “there is one point: no one has seen “wormholes” yet, they have yet to be found.”

This hypothesis could be confirmed by revealing the secret of the origin of new stars. Astronomers have long puzzled over the nature of the origin of some celestial bodies. From the outside it looks like the emergence of matter from nothing. “Such phenomena may be the result of matter spilling out into the Universe from parallel worlds,” Vladimir Arshinov boldly suggests. Then we can assume that any body is able to move to a parallel world.

Recently, the British medium Dame Forsyth made a statement that shocked the English public. She said that she had found a passage to a parallel world. The reality she discovered turned out to be a copy of our world, only without problems, illnesses and any hint of aggression. Foresight's Curved Mirror of Discovery was preceded by the series mysterious disappearances teenagers in the fair house of laughter in the city of Kent. In 1998, four young visitors did not leave at once. Two more disappeared three years later. Then more. The police knocked down, but did not find any traces of the kidnapping of children.

There are many mysteries in this story. Kent detective Sean Murphy says all the missing people knew each other, and the disappearances happened on the last Thursdays of the month. Most likely, a serial maniac “hunts” there. According to Murphy, the offender entered the laughing house through a secret passage, which, however, was not discovered by the operatives. As well as other traces of the killer's activity. After their searches, the booth had to be covered up. Like it or not, it turned out that the wanted teenagers almost vanished into thin air. After the mysterious premises were closed, the disappearances stopped. “The exit to that world was in one of the distorting mirrors,” Forsyth says. - It could be used, apparently, only from the other side. Probably, someone accidentally opened it when the first missing ones were nearby. And then the teenagers who fell into this trap began to take their friends there.

Curved mirrors were also observed during the study of the Tibetan pyramids by Professor Ernst Muldashev. According to him, many of these giant structures are associated with various sizes of concave, semicircular and flat stone structures, which scientists have called "mirrors" because of their smooth surface. In the zone of their alleged action, the members of Muldashev's expedition did not feel very well. Some saw themselves in childhood, some seemed to be transported to unfamiliar places. According to the scientist, through such "mirrors" standing near the pyramids, you can change the flow of time and control space. Ancient legends say that such complexes were used to go to parallel worlds, and, according to Muldashev, this cannot be considered a complete fantasy.

hellish tunnels

The Australian parapsychologist Jean Grimbriard concluded that among the numerous anomalous zones there are about 40 tunnels in the world leading to other worlds, of which four are in Australia and seven are in America. Common to these "hellish tunnels" is that chilling cries and groans are heard from the depths, and every year more than a hundred people disappear without a trace. One of the most famous places is a limestone cave in California National Park, which you can enter but not exit. Not even a trace of the missing remains.

There are "hellish places" in Russia too. For example, there is a mysterious mine near Gelendzhik, which, according to local historians, has existed since the 18th century. It is a straight well with a diameter of about one and a half meters with polished walls. When a man ventured into the mine a couple of years ago, at a depth of 40 meters the Geiger counter showed a sharp increase radiation background. And since several volunteers who tried to examine the well had already died from a strange disease, the descent was immediately stopped. There are rumors that the mine has no bottom, some kind of incomprehensible life flows there, in the bowels, and time in the depths of the mysterious formation violates all laws, accelerating its course. According to rumors, one guy went down into the mine, and he got stuck there for a week, and already gray-haired and old went upstairs.

Aged for an hour and a half, a 32-year-old resident of a village located on the Greek island of Tilos came to the surface from a well.

Ioannos Kolofidis. Since ancient times, this well was considered bottomless. The water in it, even in the heat, was icy. And then one day it's time to clean it up. It was Kolofidis who volunteered to do this work. The man donned a wetsuit and was lowered into the shaft. The work went on for about an hour and a half. Three people from time to time pulled up a bucket of silt. Suddenly on the surface heard frequent blows to the metal. Kolofidis seemed to be begging to be picked up as soon as possible. When the poor fellow was pulled out, his comrades almost lost the power of speech: in front of them on the ground lay a decrepit old man with absolutely white hair on his head, a long beard and in shabby, worn out clothes. But what happened in the well remained a mystery, since Kolofidis died a few hours later. An autopsy showed that he died of old age!

Another creepy well is located in the Kaliningrad region. In 2004, two coven workers, Nikolai and Mikhail, contracted to dig a well in one of the villages. At a depth of about ten meters, the diggers heard many-voiced human groans from under the ground under their feet. In incredible horror, the diggers got out. Local residents bypass this “cursed place”, believing that it was there that the Nazis staged mass executions during the war years.

Disappearing in the castle

The ancient castle, located near the town of Comcrief (Scotland), not so long ago became the place of disappearance of adventure lovers.

The current owner of the castle, Robert McDougley, bought this uninhabited building for next to nothing simply out of love for the exotic.

“Once I stayed in the basement, where I found old books on black magic, until midnight,” says 54-year-old Robert. “Twilight fell quickly, and I found a strange blue glow emanating from the great central hall. When I entered there, I was struck in the face by a bright bluish-gray sheaf of light emanating from a three-meter portrait, the colors of which seemed so worn during the day that it was impossible to make out the drawing. Now, however, I clearly saw a full-length man depicted on it, whose clothes were from parts of costumes of different eras that clearly did not fit together - from the 15th to the 20th century. As I got closer to get a better look, the heavy portrait tore off the wall and crashed down on top of me.

Sir Robert survived by a miracle. But rumors about what had happened spread beyond the borders of the district, and tourists began to flock to the castle. Once, two exalted elderly ladies got inside and climbed into a niche that opened behind the portrait after it fell. And immediately they ... vanished into thin air. Rescuers tapped all the walls and went through all the rooms with special radars, but found no one. Psychics, brought in as experts, claim that the door to parallel worlds, “sealed” for centuries, has opened in the castle, where tourists have moved. However, neither the psychics nor the police dared to test this assumption and enter the niche.

Of course, this practically does not fit in with the Big Bang theory, which describes the origin of our Universe. This hypothesis is generally accepted and will remain so until science proves something else. “The dimensions of the universe were then equal to zero - it was compressed into a point,” says Vladimir Arshinov. This state is called the cosmological singularity. But why, for example, not already now assume that such a point could be not one, but many, and different ones, including those still unknown to mankind? And then the beginning of other worlds could be laid.

The theory of multiple worlds is just a model so far. Nothing more than a beautiful way to explain many mysterious things. Science is not yet able to test it in practice. But if we assume that parallel worlds exist and are inhabited in the same way as our real world, then things that are still inexplicable, such as various paranormal activity may become clearer. True, for this it is necessary at least to wait for the appearance of the new Giordano Bruno.

Scientists confirmation

Albert Einstein throughout his life tried to create a "theory of everything", which would describe all the laws of the universe. Did not have time.

Today, astrophysicists suggest that the best candidate for this theory is superstring theory. It not only explains the processes of expansion of our universe, but also confirms the existence of other universes that are close to us. "Cosmic strings" are distortions of space and time. They may be larger than the universe itself, although their thickness does not exceed the size of an atomic nucleus.

Nevertheless, despite the amazing mathematical beauty and integrity, string theory has not yet found experimental confirmation. All hope for the Large Hadron Collider. Scientists expect from him not only the discovery of the Higgs particle, but also some supersymmetric particles. This will be a serious support for string theory, and hence for other worlds. While physicists are building theoretical models other worlds.

1950s. Everett Worlds

The science fiction writer was the first to tell earthlings about parallel worlds in 1895 H. G. Wells in "The Door in the Wall" 62 years later, Princeton University graduate Hugh Everett amazed colleagues with the topic of his doctoral dissertation on the splitting of worlds.

Here is its essence: every moment each universe splits into an unimaginable number of its own kind, and the very next moment each of these newborns splits in exactly the same way. And in this vast multitude there are many worlds in which you exist. In one world, while reading this article, you are riding the subway, in another, you are flying in an airplane. In one you are a king, in the other you are a slave.

The impetus for the multiplication of worlds is our actions, explained Everett. As soon as we make some choice - "to be or not to be," for example, how in the blink of an eye from one universe two have turned out. We live in one, and the second - by itself, although we are present there as well.

Interesting, but... Even the father of quantum mechanics, Niels Bohr, was then indifferent to this crazy idea.

1980s. Mira Linde

The theory of many worlds could be forgotten. But again, a science fiction writer came to the aid of scientists. Michael Moorcock, by some intuition, settled all the inhabitants of his fabulous city of Thanelorn in the Multiverse. The term Multiverse immediately appeared in the writings of serious scientists.

The fact is that in the 1980s, many physicists were already convinced that the idea of ​​parallel universes could become one of the cornerstones of a new paradigm of science about the structure of the universe. Andrey Linde became the main proponent of this beautiful idea. Our former compatriot, an employee of the Physical Institute. Lebedev Academy of Sciences, and now professor of physics at Stanford University.

Linde builds his reasoning on the basis of the Big Bang model, as a result of which a rapidly expanding bubble arose - the embryo of our Universe. But if some kind of cosmic egg turned out to be capable of giving birth to the Universe, then why can't we assume the possibility of the existence of other similar eggs? Having asked this question, Linde built a model in which inflationary (inflation - inflation) universes arise continuously, branching off from their parents.

To illustrate, one can imagine a reservoir filled with water in every possible way. states of aggregation. There will be liquid zones, blocks of ice and steam bubbles - they can be considered analogues of the parallel universes of the inflationary model. It represents the world as a huge fractal, consisting of homogeneous pieces with different properties. Moving around this world, you can smoothly move from one universe to another. True, your journey will last a long time - tens of millions of years.

1990s. Rhys Worlds

The logic of reasoning of the professor of cosmology and astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, Martin Rees, is something like this.

The probability of the origin of life in the Universe is a priori so small that it looks like a miracle, Professor Rees argued. And if we do not proceed from the hypothesis of the Creator, then why not assume that Nature randomly gives rise to many parallel worlds that serve as a field for her to experiment on the creation of life.

According to the scientist, life arose on a small planet revolving around an ordinary star of one of the ordinary galaxies of our world for the simple reason that its physical structure favored this. The other worlds of the Multiverse are most likely empty.

2000s. Worlds of Tegmark

Max Tegmark, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania, is convinced that universes can differ not only in location, cosmological properties, but also in the laws of physics. They exist outside of time and space and are almost impossible to depict.

Consider a simple universe consisting of the Sun, Earth and Moon, the physicist suggests. For an objective observer, such a universe appears as a ring: the Earth's orbit, "smeared" in time, as if wrapped in a braid - it is created by the trajectory of the Moon around the Earth. And other forms personify other physical laws.

The scientist likes to illustrate his theory by the example of playing in
"Russian roulette". In his opinion, every time a person pulls the trigger, his universe splits into two: where the shot occurred, and where it was not. But Tegmark himself does not risk conducting such an experiment in reality - at least in
our universe.

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Andrey LindeAndrey Linde is a physicist, creator of the theory of an inflating (inflationary) Universe. Graduated from Moscow State University. Worked at the Physics Institute. Lebedev Academy of Sciences (FIAN). Since 1990 he has been Professor of Physics at Stanford University. Author of more than 220 publications in the field of elementary particle physics and cosmology.

Gurgling space

The multiverse has a rather complex topology: it contains many independent universes, swollen to cosmic dimensions, with their own laws of nature in each. Illustration: from the archive of Andrey Linde - Andrey Dmitrievich, in which part of the many-sided universe are we, earthlings, “registered”?

Depending on where we are. The Universe can be divided into large regions, each of which, in all its properties, looks - locally - like a huge Universe. Each of them is huge. If we live in one of them, then we will not know that other parts of the universe exist.

Are the laws of physics the same everywhere?

I think different. That is, in reality, the law of physics can be the same. It is just like water, which can be liquid, gaseous or solid. However, fish can only live in liquid water. We are in a different environment. But not because there are no other parts of the Universe, but because we can only live in a segment of the "many-sided Universe" that is convenient for us.

What is our segment like?

To the bubble.

It turns out that people, in your opinion, when they appeared, were all sitting in one bubble?

No one has sat yet. People were born later, after the end of inflation. Then the energy, which was responsible for the rapid expansion of the Universe, passed into the energy of ordinary elementary particles. This happened due to the fact that the Universe boiled, bubbles appeared, as in a boiling kettle. Tens of bubbles hit each other, released their energy, and due to the release of energy, normal particles were born. The universe has become hot. And after that there were people. They looked around and said, "Oh, what a big universe!"

Can we get from one bubble universe to another?

Theoretically yes. But on the way we will come across a barrier. This will be a domain wall, energetically very large. To fly to the wall, you have to be a long-liver, because the distance to it is about 10 to a millionth power of light years. And in order to cross the border, we need to have a lot of energy in order to properly accelerate and jump over it. Although it is likely that we will die right there, because particles of our earthly type can decay in another universe. Or change your properties.

Do bubble universes occur all the time?

This is an eternal process. The universe will never end. In its different parts, different pieces of the Universe, of different types, arise. It happens like this. Two bubbles appear, for example. Each of them expands very quickly, but the universe between them continues to inflate, so the distance between the bubbles remains very large, and they almost never collide. More bubbles form and the universe expands even more. In some of these bubbles there is no structure - it has not formed. And in the other part of these bubbles, galaxies arose, in one of which we live. And there are about 10 to the thousandth degree of such different types of the Universe or 10 to the hundredth. Scientists are still counting.

What happens in these many copies of the same universe?

The Universe has now entered a new stage of inflation, but a very slow one. Our Galaxy will not be touched yet. Because the matter inside our Galaxy is gravitationally very strongly attracted to each other. And other galaxies will fly away from us, and we will not see them again.

Where will they fly to?

To the so-called horizon of the world, which is located at a distance of 13.7 billion light years from us. All these galaxies will stick to the horizon and melt for us, become flat. Signals from them will no longer come, and only our Galaxy will remain. But this is not for long either. Over time, the energy resources in our galaxy will slowly run out, and we will suffer a sad fate.

When will it happen?

Fortunately, we will not fall apart soon. In 20 billion years or more. But due to the fact that the Universe is self-healing, due to the fact that it produces more and more new parts in all its possible combinations, the Universe as a whole and life in general will never disappear.

Alexander Bolonkin, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Member of the Board of Directors of the non-profit organization "International Space Agency":
- On the topic of parallel worlds, science fiction writers write a lot, and scientists argue, but there is no evidence of their existence. In a purely humanitarian sense, one can fantasize about anything, but physicists are unlikely to add anything here. There is none scientific fact who could confirm this. Physical laws are associated with certain values ​​of constants, interactions. The multiverse is the hypothetical set of all possible universes, including the one in which we exist, is unlikely, and there is no reason to believe that other worlds exist. And even if they exist, why are they different? In general, I am negative about this theory.

Yuri Gnedin, Deputy Director of the Main Astronomical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences:
- The theory of the existence of parallel universes is possible. And this is not just a belief, but an assumption based on scientific results. It does not contradict any basic physical laws. Everything is born from the original state due to random deviations from the average value physical quantities. There can be many such deviations, and each of them can give rise to its own universe. Moreover, each of them may be habitable, but the problem is that we have no way to contact them. We are not able to get to the nearest stars, and to the "wormholes" even more so. Ideally, there is such an opportunity, but so far we have no idea how to implement it. Technical capabilities are not enough, although they may appear in the future.

Russian scientist, professor at the Pulkovo Observatory Nikolai KOZYREV argued that there are universes parallel to ours, and between them there are tunnels - "black" and "white" holes. On the "black" from our Universe, matter goes to parallel worlds, and on the "white" from them energy comes to us. However, the idea of ​​the existence of a parallel world has owned a person since time immemorial. Some researchers believe that the Cro-Magnon people believed that the souls of the deceased tribesmen and animals killed in the hunt go to these worlds, which is reflected in their drawings.

For thousands of years, people have wanted to cross the threshold of mystery and find out what is hidden on the other side of reality. How to get to another world? There is no definitive answer to this question, but turning a blind eye to great amount facts, evidence real people and scientific explanations are simply impossible.

What is a parallel world?

The parallel world, or the fifth dimension, is a space invisible to the human eye that exists along with the real life of people. There is no dependence between him and the ordinary world. It is believed that its size can vary greatly: from a pea to the universe. The patterns of events, the rules of physics and other "hard" statements that are valid in the world of people may absolutely not work in an invisible reality. Everything that happens there may have slight deviations from the usual way of life or differ radically.

multiverse

The multiverse is a fiction of science fiction writers. Recent times scientists are increasingly turning to the works of science fiction, because many years of observational experience has shown that they almost always predict the development of events and the future of mankind with amazing accuracy. The concept of the multiverse says that, in addition to the world familiar to earthlings, there are a huge number of unique worlds. Moreover, not all of them are material. The Earth is connected with other invisible realities at the level of spiritual connection.

Conjectures about the existence of parallel worlds

Since antiquity, there have been many speculations about whether the fifth dimension actually exists. It is interesting that the question of how to get to another world was asked by the great minds of the distant past. In the works of Democritus, Epicurus and Metrodorus of Chios one can find similar thoughts. Some even tried to prove the existence of the "other side" by scientific research. Democritus argued that absolute emptiness is fraught with a large number of worlds. Some of them, he says, are very similar to ours, even in the smallest details. Others are completely different from earthly reality. The thinker substantiated his theories based on the basic principle of depreciation - equiprobability. The pundits of the past also talked about the unity of time: past, present, future are at one point. From this it follows that making the transition is not so difficult, the main thing is to understand the mechanism of transition from one point to another.

modern science

Modern science does not at all deny the possibility of the existence of other worlds. This moment is studied in detail, constantly discovering something new. Even the very fact that scientists around the world admit the theory of the multiverse already speaks volumes. Science substantiates this assumption with the help of the provisions of quantum mechanics and Proponents of this theory believe that there are incredibly many possible worlds - up to 10 to the five hundredth degree. There is also an opinion that the number of parallel realities is not limited at all. However, science cannot yet answer the question of how to get into a parallel world. Every year it opens up more and more of the unknown. Perhaps in the near future people will be able to make instantaneous travel between universes.

Esotericists and psychics claim that it is quite possible to get into another world. However, keep in mind that this is not always safe. In order to penetrate the secret world, it is necessary to change the way the brain works. It is advisable to practice the following: lying on the bed, try to sleep, relax the body, but keep the mind conscious. It will be difficult at first to achieve this or a similar consciousness, but it is worth continuing to try.

The main problem for beginners is that it is very difficult to relax the body and be conscious at the same time. In such cases, a person unbearably wants to twitch, move at least a little, or he simply falls asleep. About a month of training - and you can accustom the body to such a practice. After that, you should dive deeper into the new state. Each time there will be new sounds, voices, pictures. Soon it will be possible to move to another reality. The main thing is not to fall asleep, but to be aware that you have crossed the threshold of a parallel world. This method is also possible in another variation. You need to do the same, but immediately after waking up. When you open your eyes, you need to fix the body, but be awake with the mind. Immersion in another world in this case is faster, but many can not stand it and fall asleep again. In addition, you need to wake up only at a certain time - preferably around 4 in the morning, since it is during this period that a person is most subtle.

Another way is meditation. The key difference from the first method is that there is no connection with sleep, and the process itself must take place in a sitting position. The complexity of this approach lies in the need to clear the mind of unnecessary thoughts that constantly visit a person as soon as he tries to concentrate. There are many techniques to subdue unruly thoughts. For example, it is necessary not to interrupt the flow, but to give it freedom, but not to be included in it, but to be just an observer. You can also focus on numbers, a specific point, etc.

The danger that lies in other worlds

The reality of parallel worlds is fraught with a lot of the unknown. But the real threat to face on the other side is malevolent entities. In order to control your fear and avoid trouble, you need to know who and what causes anxiety. Entering a parallel world will be much easier if you know that frightening entities are just creatures of the past. Fears from childhood, movies, books, etc. - all this can be found in parallel reality. The main thing is to understand that these are only phantoms, and not real beings. As soon as the fear of them disappears, they will disappear on their own. The inhabitants of the unseen worlds are generally friendly or indifferent. They are unlikely to scare or create trouble, but still you should not annoy them. However, there is still a chance to meet an unkind spirit. In this case, it is enough to overcome your fear, because there will still be no harm from the activity of the otherworldly entity. Do not forget that the past, present, future are in contact, so there is always a way out. You can also think about the house, and then the soul is likely to return to the body.

How to get into a parallel world through an elevator

Esotericists claim that the elevator can help in the transition to a parallel world. It serves as a "door" that must be opened. It is best to travel through the elevator at night or in dark time days. You must be alone in the cabin. It is worth noting that if any person enters the elevator during the ritual, then nothing will succeed. After entering the cabin, you should move through the floors in the following order: 4-2-6-2-1. Then you should go to the 10th floor and go down to 5. A woman will enter the booth, you can’t talk to her. You should press the button for the 1st floor, but the elevator will go to the 10th. You cannot press other buttons, as the ritual will be interrupted. How do you know the transition has taken place? In a parallel reality, there will be only you. It should be noted that it is not worth looking for a companion - the guide was not a person. In order to get into the human world, it is necessary to complete the ritual with the elevator (floors, buttons) in reverse order.

Gateway to another reality

You can penetrate into another reality with the help of a mirror, because it is a mystical gate to all other worlds. It is used by sorcerers and magicians who own necessary knowledge. The transition through the mirror always succeeds. In addition, with its help you can not only travel to other universes, but also conjure. That is why to this day the customs of hanging mirrors after the death of a person are preserved. This is done for a reason, because the soul of the deceased wanders around his house during the course. Thus the astral body says goodbye to the past life. The soul itself is unlikely to want to harm its relatives, but at such moments a portal opens through which various entities can enter the room. They can frighten or try to drag the astral body of a living person into a parallel reality.

There are several rituals with mirrors. To answer the question of how people get into parallel worlds, it is necessary to understand the essence of the mirror ritual, because it is this object that is the original guide to another world.

Mirror and candles

This is an old method that is still used today. It is necessary to put two mirrors opposite each other. They must be parallel. A candle must be bought in advance at the temple. Place it between the mirrors so that you get a corridor of many candles. Do not be afraid if the flame starts to sway, this may well be. This means that the invisible entities are already with you. For this ritual, you can use not only candles. LEDs or colored panels will do. But it is best to use candles, since their blinking corresponds to the frequency of the human brain. This helps a person enter a meditative state. And it is necessary to enter it, because, being conscious, you can be very frightened. The consequence can be not only an interrupted ritual, but also the attachment of another entity to you. It is necessary to carry out the ritual in complete darkness and silence. Only one person should be in the room.

Mirror and prayer

It is necessary to buy a round-shaped mirror on Saturday. Its perimeter should be inscribed with the words "Our Father" on the contrary, written in red ink. On Thursday night, you need to put a mirror under the pillow, with the mirror side up. Turn off the lights, go to bed and say your name backwards. This must be done until sleep overtakes. A person wakes up in another world. In order to get out of another reality, you need to find an animal in it that will be exactly the same as in real life, and follow it. The danger of the whole action is that the conductor may never be found, and the astral body will forever remain in parallel world or, even worse, between worlds.

Path to the past

For many years and even centuries, people have wanted to know the answer to the question of how to get into the past. There are two known ways that can move a person in time. The most famous is "wormholes" - small tunnels in space that serve as a link between the past and the present. But... Scientific research show that the “hole” will close faster than a person has time to cross its threshold. Based on this, it can be argued that if scientists find a way to delay the opening of the tunnel, they will become justified not only from an esoteric, but also from a scientific point of view.

The second way is to visit places on Earth that have a certain energy. Such trips have a huge amount of real evidence. Moreover, sometimes people do not even know how to get into the past, but they find themselves there by chance, having visited an energetically strong place on Earth. A territory with a pronounced supernatural energy is called a "place of power." It has been scientifically verified that the operation of any installations there deteriorates or even fails. And those indicators that can be measured go off scale.

Working with the subconscious

Another way is to work with the subconscious mind. How to get into a parallel world with the help of the brain? Quite difficult, but doable. To do this, you need to enter a state of strong relaxation, create a gate and go through the portal. Sounds simple, but to achieve results. several factors are necessary: ​​a great desire, mastery of meditation techniques, the ability to visualize space in detail and ... the absence of fear. Many say that when they achieve a result, they often lose touch with the other world from fear. It takes a certain time to overcome it, so you should be ready to find yourself in another reality at any moment.

Parallel universes - is it theory or reality? Many physicists have been struggling to solve this issue for more than a year.

Are there parallel universes?

Is our universe one of many? The idea of ​​parallel universes, previously attributed exclusively to science fiction, is now becoming more and more respected among scientists - at least among physicists, who usually push any idea to the very limits of what can be assumed at all. In fact, there are a huge number of potential parallel universes. Physicists have proposed several possible forms"multiverse", each of which is possible according to one or another aspect of the laws of physics. The problem, which stems directly from the definition itself, is that humans will never be able to visit these universes to verify that they exist. Thus, the question is how to check the existence of parallel universes that cannot be seen or touched by other methods?

The birth of an idea

It is assumed that at least some of these universes are inhabited by human counterparts who live similar or even identical lives with people from our world. Such an idea touches your ego and awakens fantasies - which is why the multiverses, no matter how distant and unprovable, have always received such wide popularity. You've seen the idea of ​​the multiverse most vividly in books like The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick and movies like Beware the Doors Are Closing. In fact, there is nothing new in the idea of ​​multiverses - this is clearly demonstrated by the religious philosopher Mary-Jane Rubenstein in her book Worlds Without End. In the mid-sixteenth century, Copernicus argued that the earth was not the center of the universe. Decades later, Galileo's telescope showed him the stars out of reach, thus giving humanity the first glimpse of the vastness of the cosmos. Thus, at the end of the sixteenth century, the Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno argued that the universe could be infinite and contain an infinite number of inhabited worlds.

matryoshka universe

The idea that the universe contains many solar systems became quite common in the eighteenth century. In the early twentieth century, the Irish physicist Edmund Fournier D'Alba even suggested that there could be an infinite regression of "nested" universes of various sizes, both large and small. From this point of view, a single atom can be considered as a real inhabited solar system. Modern scientists deny the existence of a matryoshka multiverse, but instead they have proposed several other options in which multiverses can exist. Here are the most popular among them.

patchwork universe

The simplest of these theories stems from the idea of ​​the infinity of the universe. It is impossible to know for sure whether it is infinite, but it is also impossible to deny it. If it is still infinite, then it should be divided into "patches" - regions that are not visible to each other. Why? The fact is that these regions are so far apart that light cannot overcome such a distance. The universe is only 13.8 billion years old, so any regions that are 13.8 billion light-years apart are completely cut off from each other. By all accounts, these regions can be considered separate universes. But they don't stay that way forever - eventually the light crosses the boundary between them and they expand. And if the universe actually consists of an infinite number of "island universes" containing matter, stars and planets, then somewhere there must be worlds identical to the Earth.

Inflationary multiverse

The second theory grows out of ideas about how the universe began. According to the dominant version of the Big Bang, it began as an infinitesimal dot that expanded incredibly rapidly in a hot ball of fire. A fraction of a second after the expansion began, the acceleration had already reached such a tremendous speed that it far exceeded the speed of light. And this process is called inflation. The inflationary theory explains why the universe is relatively homogeneous at any one point in it. Inflation has expanded this fireball to cosmic proportions. However, the initial state also had a large number of different random variations, which were also subject to inflation. And now they are stored as cosmic microwave radiation, the faint afterglow of the Big Bang. And this radiation permeates the entire Universe, making it not so uniform.

Cosmic natural selection

This theory was formulated by Lee Smolin from Canada. In 1992, he suggested that universes could evolve and reproduce just like living beings. On Earth, natural selection favors "beneficial" traits, such as faster running speeds or a particular thumb position. There must also be a certain pressure in the multiverse that makes some universes better than others. Smolin called this theory "cosmic natural selection". Smolin's idea is that the "mother" universe can give life to "daughter" ones that form inside it. The mother universe can only do this if it has black holes. A black hole is formed when big star collapses under the influence of its own force of attraction, colliding all atoms to such an extent until they reach infinite density.

multiverse brane

When Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity began to gain popularity in the twenties, many people discussed the "fourth dimension". What could be there? Perhaps a hidden universe? It was nonsense, Einstein did not assume the existence of a new universe. All he said was that time is the same dimension, which is like the three dimensions of space. All four are intertwined with each other, forming a space-time continuum, the matter of which is distorted - and gravity is obtained. Despite this, other scientists began to discuss the possibility of the existence of other dimensions in space. The first hints of hidden dimensions appeared in the works of the theoretical physicist Theodor Kaluza. In 1921 he demonstrated that by adding to the equation general theory Einstein's relativity new measurements, you can get an additional equation with which you can predict the existence of light.

Multi-world interpretation (quantum multiverse)

The theory of quantum mechanics is one of the most successful in all of science. She discusses the behavior of the smallest objects, such as atoms and their constituents. elementary particles. It can predict everything from the shape of molecules to how light and matter interact, all with incredible accuracy. Quantum mechanics considers particles in the form of waves and describes them mathematical expression, which is called the wave function. Perhaps the strangest feature of the wave function is that it allows a particle to exist in multiple states at the same time. This is called superposition. But superpositions break down as soon as an object is measured in any way, since measurements force the object to choose a specific position. In 1957, the American physicist Hugh Everett suggested that we stop complaining about the strange nature of this approach and just live with it. He also suggested that objects do not switch to a particular position when they are measured - instead, he believed that all possible positions given to the wavefunction are equally real. Therefore, when an object is measured, a person sees only one of many realities, but all other realities also exist.

Planets, stars, galaxies - man has long peered into the night sky in search of other worlds, but now the stakes have risen. Scientists have become cramped in their native reality, and they are looking for signs of other universes in the cosmic microwave background - the most ancient signal emitted millennia after the Big Bang. Why is this needed and what has already happened - in the material "Attic".

Constellation Ursa Major- seven bright stars, drawing a giant bucket, and dozens of dim beads scattered between them. On this patch of celestial fabric in 2016, the Hubble Space Telescope saw a tiny reddish irregular spot - the galaxy GN-z11.

This galaxy is the most distant astronomical object from Earth that people have recorded. The light captured by Hubble, GN-z11 emitted 13.4 billion years ago, long before the appearance of the solar system - at the dawn of the formation of the universe. So long ago, what a time space travel Of this signal, the galaxy itself, due to the expansion of the Universe, ran away from us at a distance of more than 30 billion light years.

GN-z11 is our outpost on the border with the cosmic unknown. The universe has existed for about 13.8 billion years, and the light of GN-z11 was born 400 million years after the Big Bang. If we translate the entire history of the Universe into 24 hours of the earth day, this is somewhere at half past one at night. Therefore, it is unrealistic to see objects that are much farther from the Earth than GN-z11 - the light of even the very first seconds of their existence has not reached us.

What is behind this veil of time, one can only guess. Most likely, it also has its own galaxies, moons and atoms, separated by endless voids and twisted by the same (or slightly different) laws of physics.

It would seem, what scope for imagination. Climb to a remote cape at the end of the world and, under the sound of the surf, imagine another Earth inhabited by people. They are trillions of light-years away, there, in the midst of a different silence of the Universe, they also think that they are alone in this world, and do not yet know that one day our loneliness will meet. But such fantasies are not enough for scientists - instead of news from other space continents of our world, they are looking for something else in the night sky. Signs of other universes and other worlds.

Heavenly Harmony

Johannes Kepler, a German astronomer who lived at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, was obsessed with a strange idea: he believed that the six planets of the solar system known in his time ideally embodied the harmony of divine design. He processed the observational data of another astronomer, Tycho Brahe, and tried to reduce the trajectories of the planets to five "Platonic solids" - regular polyhedra, described by the ancient Greeks.

By the end of the 16th century, the celestial puzzle had taken shape. Kepler published a book Mysterium Cosmographicum(“The Secret of the Universe”), in which the orbits of the six planets then known were formed into a harmonious geometric system resembling a nesting doll. The orbit of Saturn (the farthest planet at that time) was a circle on the surface of a ball circumscribed around a cube, inside this cube there was another ball with the orbit of Jupiter, and a tetrahedron was inscribed inside the already Jupiterian ball - and so on with an ideal alternation of balls nested in five different polyhedra. Complete harmony of earthly bodies and heavenly bodies.

Several years have passed and space beauty Kepler faded somewhat. At first, critics pointed out that celestial spheres and polyhedra fit into each other inaccurately, and then Kepler himself showed that the orbits of the planets are not circles, but ellipses, and, disappointed with his past ideas, he switched to another task: now he was looking for an encrypted celestial harmony in the magnitudes of these ellipses.

But time put everything in its place: neither in the shapes of the orbits, nor in their sizes, there were any encrypted patterns hiding the true nature of things. Only chaos space dust collected in random clumps of matter. Improvisation of nature with the only rule - do not forget about universal gravity and several other laws that describe the world.

AT physical equations there are different constants, the values ​​of which cannot be deduced from other laws, but can only be remembered. The speed of light, Planck's constant, the elementary charge - strange angular numbers that seem to have fallen on us from nowhere. Real fate.

Many people do not like this, and they try to find an explanation for the constants. Someone, due to a lack of mathematical education, is looking for the secret ciphers of nature, others write complex equations string theory and quantum gravity in order to obtain the values ​​of constants from other laws, and still others simply push this question somewhere far away from their consciousness so as not to repeat the mistake of Kepler, who spent his whole life looking for a reasonable explanation for randomness.

But so far, these strategies have not turned out to be anything good. So far, no one has been able to derive constants, and silently considering their values ​​​​by mere chance is somewhat strange: they are too well matched to each other. Take the same dark energy: if it were a little less, nothing would prevent gravity from collapsing all matter into one infinitely dense singularity, and a little more - and under the influence of dark energy, not only free from matter, empty sections of the Universe, but also everything would expand. celestial bodies, whose atoms would gradually spread around the world.

Such a fine tuning of the fundamental constants poses an unusual choice: our world and its laws become, in the first approximation, either an incredible accident or the result of intelligent design. One way to get around this dilemma would be the multiverse hypothesis, according to which real world there are many more, perhaps even an infinite number of different universes, and each of them has its own laws of physics with its own sets of constants: somewhere they are completely unsuitable for the birth intelligent life, but somewhere, as if specially adjusted so that millions of atoms of matter would one day gather into a strange, as if intelligent agglomerate and ask the question: “Where then can we look for these other universes, if we need them so much?”

Foam of universes

As usual, different scientists under the word "Multiverse" understand completely different things. Some are looking for other universes on branes - high-dimensional objects from string theory, others believe in universes born from the back side of black holes. And still others offer to take a closer look at the birth of our own universe, and so far their approach is much more productive than the others.

Little is known about the birth of our world. Where, how, who are the parents - we do not have any documents or witnesses that can tell why our Universe appeared and whether there was anything before it. But on the other hand, according to some features of the adult Universe, scientists can assume what happened literally in the first moments of her life, restore the first cosmic breath of the world.

This is called the theory of inflation. In the 80s of the last century, physicists built a model according to which already 10 -42 seconds after the beginning of time, our Universe began to expand so quickly that in some vanishing fractions of a second a piece of space the size of a small pebble caressed by the surf stretched to a huge visible us a bubble with a diameter of billions of light years.

Then this space was filled only with pure energy, which was continuously pumped from somewhere from an unknown source (it is also called dark energy, but, apparently, it is of a slightly different nature than modern dark energy), and then the energy suddenly decayed and turned into quarks , photons, electrons and other particles familiar to us - this happened 10 -36 seconds after the birth of the Universe, and the Big Bang itself is now often called a consequence of inflation.

Strange, but this fantastic theory does a good job of describing some of the features of our modern universe that previous models could not handle:

Why is the universe we see flat?

The expansion was so fast that the radius of curvature of the world increased almost to infinity.

- Why is it homogeneous on large cosmic scales?

The universe was born from a small piece of space, which, during the fleeting time of expansion, simply could not lose its homogeneity.

- Why are there only small local density fluctuations in the Universe?

The Universe was so small that it had every right to be called a quantum object, which means that it contained quantum vacuum fluctuations, which were then picked up by inflation and inflated to primary fluctuations in the density of matter, from which all large structures had already formed over billions of years of subsequent evolution.

In this story of the birth of the Universe, as always, there are many fundamental questions: what caused inflation, what fueled it, why did it end. Scientists look for answers to them, but often they get completely unexpected results instead. So, one of the main authors of the theory of inflation, the Soviet physicist Andrey Linde (now he has been living and working in the USA for a long time) formulated the theory of chaotic inflation in 1983, in which he showed that the incredible expansion of space does not have to end in other parts of our world, and even It certainly didn't happen just once.

According to Linda, the whole world is the Multiverse, a huge, boundless space filled with mysterious energy, which at any random moment of time can condense into a tiny point in order to inflate it with inflation to a giant bubble of the Universe filled with a variety of evolving matter. This is how our Universe could be born, and in parallel, somewhere not far from it - just a few trillion light years away - one, second, third bubble of other universes could thicken.

In the theory of inflation, the hypothesis of the Multiverse no longer looks like a trick, the only convenient way out of the dilemma of fatal accident and design, but is obtained by a logical mathematical way: if a person accepts the theory of inflation, then he must accept other universes. Not everyone likes it. For example, the American cosmologist Paul Steinhardt, who was involved in working out some of the details of the theory of inflation, became disappointed in his views after the appearance of other universes on the stage and now says that the Multiverse simply buried his beloved theory.

Many of his colleagues are more romantic and even came up with a beautiful metaphor for the “foam of universes” for this whole story: the seashore and waves in the unknown distance, the sound of the surf, the crackle of cicadas - we live in a small bubble in the middle of a huge Multiverse.

Vague memories

It is not easy to see, hear, feel other universes. Other laws of physics, other constants - perhaps even unaware of electromagnetic waves, on which our vision is built - finally, the huge distances between different bubbles of universes. It seems simply unrealistic to receive a signal about what is happening right now in a parallel world, but you can do it differently - look into the past. Just as ocean-separated continents leave traces of a common past in the patterns of coastlines, so the data on our universe's past can obscure other worlds. Therefore, in search of other universes, scientists are looking closely at the CMB - the first memory of our own universe.

Immediately after inflation ended, the universe was filled with such a hot and dense matter that photons could not pass through it far and were constantly scattered and re-emitted. If there were an intelligent observer in that world (capable of living at incredibly high temperatures and with a whole bunch of other cosmic constraints), he would see only what is happening in his immediate vicinity. But the Universe gradually expanded and cooled, and 300 thousand years after the Big Bang, the Universe suddenly became transparent to light at large distances.

The relic radiation is the first photons emitted then in the most distant corners of the Universe and, after billions of years, finally reaching the Earth. We do not know how and where our Universe was born, but we can look at this first memory, emerging from under the veil of infantile unconsciousness, in order to find in it vague echoes of the missing brothers and sisters of our world.

The relic radiation is almost completely homogeneous: from every point of the distant Universe, uniform thermal noise comes to us, as from a body with a temperature of 2.7 K. However, there are still tiny fluctuations in this signal - small temperature drops, which are considered a kind of imprint of the very first quantum fluctuations in the density of matter seeded during inflation. It is in these heterogeneities that they try to find evidence of the Multiverse.

There are two main strategies here. Some scientists are looking for traces of a physical collision of two bubbles of the universes. Others resort to more complex logical constructions. For example, the American cosmologist Laura Mersini-Houghton believes that neighboring universes in the first moments of their existence not only obeyed the laws of quantum mechanics, but also were among themselves, since they were born in the common space of the Multiverse - their characteristics depended on each other .

In 2008, Mersini-Houghton, along with colleagues, even formulated nine signs of such codependency, which can be found using various physical observations. Eight of them are CMB radiation (for example, it should have asymmetry between the southern and northern hemispheres of the sky), and the ninth evidence of the Multiverse should have been the failure of the supersymmetry hypothesis in experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.

Then everything developed somewhat contradictory. In some works, one can find experimental confirmation of each of the nine signs, and in others - their refutation. For example, the hypothesis of the Multiverse, according to the conclusions of Mersini-Houghton, automatically means the presence of the so-called dark flow - the coordinated movement of a large group of galaxies, and the opinions of different experimental groups on this issue are very different: some show that the relict background data confirm the dark flow, while others - on the contrary, refute. So the relic memory still seems too blurry to draw reliable conclusions about the relatives of our world from it.

The multiverse remains just a pretty hypothesis for now, helping to sort out some of the contradictions while enjoying an exciting prospect at the same time. There, somewhere in the gentle foam of the Multiverse, there was or right now there is another bubble of rarefied matter - with its own Milky Way galaxy, solar system and his Johannes Kepler, dreaming of heavenly harmony. Beautiful, charming and the highest degree in question - as legends about Atlantis and other sunken continents.

Out of range

The most revealing story here is the case of the relic cold spot, large area in the constellation Eridanus, whose radiation temperature is 70 microkelvins less than the average temperature of the cosmic microwave background radiation. This is quite a bit for a value of 2.7 kelvins, but almost four times the average temperature fluctuations across the CMB, which are about 18 microkelvins.

The cold spot was on the Mersini-Houghton list, but later other scientists found a simpler interpretation for it. The CMB anomaly was attributed to a gigantic super-void 1.8 billion light-years across, a region devoid of galaxies or other large accumulations of matter, located in the path of light traveling from the cold spot to Earth.

However, this year a group of astrophysicists from Durham University said that such a rational explanation is unrealistic. Scientists have collected data on seven thousand galaxies in the vicinity of the cold spot and have shown that the nature of their movement completely excludes the possibility of the existence of a giant supervoid. Instead, the data indicate that this region is filled with small voids separated by galaxies and clusters of galaxies.

However, this structure, unlike the rejected supervoid, explains the cold spot with great difficulty: according to the researchers, there is only one chance in fifty that with such an arrangement of masses in the CMB, such an anomaly could accidentally occur.

And here the reaction of the authors of the study to the inexplicable is indicative: “The most impressive consequence of our work is that the cold spot is possibly caused by the collision of our universe with the bubble of another universe. If further analysis of the CMB confirms this, then the cold spot can be accepted as the first evidence of the Multiverse.” An instant, it seems, almost reflex move: you don’t see a way to explain the data with the laws of this world - use the Multiverse. The magnetic force of attraction is an idea that is almost inaccessible to rigorous verification.

However, should everything that exists in reality have a reliable embodiment in figures and measurements? If, billions of years later, our Universe suddenly has a little more dark energy than now, then the accelerated expansion of space will begin to pull apart even objects that are gravitationally bound together - for example, neighboring galaxies. And one day it will go beyond the horizon of nothingness last star outside Milky Way. The light of other galaxies will never shine again in the night sky. It is unlikely that then our distant descendants will believe that there are Large and Small Magellanic Clouds in the world, the Andromeda galaxy, and even more so GN-z11 - a reddish dot on the very border of the world visible today.

Mikhail Petrov