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Introductory segment |Video note: (possible visuals of constellations,

ancient civilizations views and depictions of the universe, Carl Sagans


pale blue dot image can be also placed here)
Throughout history, mankinds’ perception of the universe has always been altered by hitting the border
of what we can observe. Millennia ago, our predecessors gazed into the night sky, observing things that
wouldn’t be understood for thousands of years to come, and yet, humans have always sought to find an
explanation for what ACTUALLY awaits beyond what we can see.

Our earliest beliefs, when we thought of the earth to be the center of the universe, were long since
reshaped into a humbling image of a pale blue dot, drifting into a cosmic void so unimaginably large,
that you can’t help but ask yourself, what is beyond all of this? What if when you looked into the night
sky - somewhere out there - there is another you looking back?

Our view of the world has many times been broken down and rebuilt with new revelations. From men
being afraid of going too far beyond the oceans, for fear of encountering the border of the world, to us
exploring the vast reaches of the cosmos and always daring to take another step beyond. Nowadays, we
KNOW the observable universe to be finite; everchanging, but still finite. To be exact, what we can
observe is 45.7 billion light years across. It is only hubris to think that there could be NOTHING
beyond this border.

The observable universe grows by a light-year every year as light from farther away has time to reach us,
and there is a new infinity out there, just waiting for us to gaze onto it. And the nature of infinity states
that anything that CAN happen, WILL happen. Our universe is a chaotic system, meaning that any
miniscule change in the starting conditions leads to exponentially larger consequences later on.

What if this is already happening? What if beyond the border of what we can observe, lies ANOTHER
huge world, still unknown to us, but still familiar to us- Enter, the theory of the multiverse

Level one parallel universe

You have probably heard of the infinite monkey theorem- give an infinite amount of monkeys
typewriters, and in an infinite amount of time, all of humanity’s literature will be written, every single
possible word that could be placed on paper, in every single possible arrangement. Assume that space is
infinite, it’s merely statistics that there would be patterns emerging in this infinite space, since there IS a
limited number of ways that particles can be arranged, giving rise to the idea that maybe, beyond our
observable universe, there is a system identical to ours, only with slightly different starting conditions.
And another one beyond that- and another one- and so on. Eventually, there Is a possibility of a
reoccurring universe, an identical copy of the world you and I live in.

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