Can You Cross to Another Universe?

There's no proof of the multiverse, but has someone made the journey to another dimension already?

Indeed, are there rubbing points that would enable you to slip from this universe into another? In the multiverse theory, as we have seen, there are “bubbles” of many, even trillions of universes out there. If those universes were to touch one another, the way that soap bubbles can cling to one another, would it be possible to slip through the membrane of our dimension, into that of an adjacent one?

Research is now turning to this topic. And while there is absolutely no empirical evidence that alternate universes exist, there has been plenty of theoretical work done on the matter. Numerous celebrated physicists such as have argued that as space expands cosmic-scale energy sparks and creates vast amounts of matter, which we term a universe. Elsewhere in space other energy discharges spark more universes. Alex Vilenken, of Tufts University, theorized that the seminal Big Bang was not the first such event in cosmic existence, that there have been countless others before.

But because space is constantly expanding, there is no way to bridge the distances between universeses. Light can’t reach us from these vast distances.  Physicist Steven Weinberg of the University of Texas at Austin counters that because you can’t see the other parts of the multiverse, how can you be confident it exists?

Yes, science needs to observe to prove, and so far we can observe. However, there is a tiny, fascinating document that was discovered in the 1960s that gives a tantalizing vision. Written by the putative Professor François Marceau, an ethnographer of the 1930s with l’Institute Française Impériale de l’Extrême-Orient, a learned treatise discusses possible “rubbing points” that have enabled men to cross into an alternate reality.

It was immediately dismissed as fiction—a response that I, as a novel, take umbrage with—and that it had been concocted. Yet much of the theoretical foundations for “Professor Marceau” was not even determined until the 1990s and even later. How could his treatise, which is addressed to the “French imperial authorities in Calcutta,” discuss in detail the multiverse and its characteristics decades before the world’s leading physicists began positing the phenomenon? One might argue that the author had extrapolated Einstein’s thinking to come up with the multiverse. But even so, it is a terrific feat of imagination, whether it is fiction or not.

One last thing: There were no “French imperial authorities in Calcutta.” During the 1930s Britain would have been the imperial authority in Calcutta. Was Professor Marceau a visitor from another universe?

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