{"id":91,"date":"2003-04-19T10:18:10","date_gmt":"2003-04-19T16:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=91"},"modified":"2003-04-19T10:18:10","modified_gmt":"2003-04-19T16:18:10","slug":"multiverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2003\/04\/19\/multiverse\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiverse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do we actually live in one &#8220;slice&#8221; of the Multiverse?<\/p>\n<p>Well, according to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?articleID=000F1EDD-B48A-1E90-8EA5809EC5880000&#038;pageNumber=1&#038;catID=2\">this article<\/a> in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\">Scientific American<\/a>, we just might!  Multiple universes have been a staple of science-fiction for as long as the concept of other planes of existence have been contemplated, but physicists think they might actually exist.  It&#8217;s hard for me to hear the term &#8220;multiverse&#8221; and not think &#8220;comic book&#8221;, but the comics industry apparently borrowed the term from quantum physics.  Who knew?<br \/>\nAnyway, the article is pretty darn interesting and brings up some interesting thoughts about different ways that this multiverse might exist.  Pretty much every possible configuration sounds like something that a science-fiction author has explored at one time or another.  The good news is, though, that far from being a deterrent, my familiarity with science-fiction made it easier to understand the rather heady theories being tossed about.<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re contemplating any kind of &#8220;alternate&#8221; anything, including alternate history, this article should give you a jump start on the underlying concepts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do we actually live in one &#8220;slice&#8221; of the Multiverse? Well, according to this article in Scientific American, we just might! Multiple universes have been a staple of science-fiction for as long as the concept of other planes of existence have been contemplated, but physicists think they might actually exist. It&#8217;s hard for me to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction-and-its-kin","category-news-and-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}