“The parallel universe theory, first proposed in 1950 by the US physicist Hugh Everett, helps explain mysteries of quantum mechanics that have baffled scientists for decades, it is claimed.

In Everett’s “many worlds” universe, every time a new physical possibility is explored, the universe splits. Given a number of possible alternative outcomes, each one is played out – in its own universe.

A motorist who has a near miss, for instance, might feel relieved at his lucky escape. But in a parallel universe, another version of the same driver will have been killed. Yet another universe will see the motorist recover after treatment in hospital. The number of alternative scenarios is endless.

It is a bizarre idea which has been dismissed as fanciful by many experts. But the new research from Oxford shows that it offers a mathematical answer to quantum conundrums that cannot be dismissed lightly – and suggests that Dr Everett, who was a Phd student at Princeton University when he came up with the theory, was on the right track….”

More here.

Now how long have science fiction writers, poets, mystics, yogis, and even ordinary self-aware people been suggesting this? For aeons.

More here at the Telegraph. 

Of course, we await further proof and analysis of this story.

If only it would get through to people that if we spent more time importing the implications of science into moribund fossilized social/political theory,  our current murderous, crime-spawning, corporate- state system would be long dead — gone the way of every other bad idea… and maybe with it, total war and our insane weapons arsenals…