[daan]

The first theory of parallel universes was a result of a scientific experiment.

When you shoot electrons at a wall with several holes in them, you get a diffuse-pattern ( not english, my english scientific language may not make any sense at all ).
Kinda like making holes in cardboard, putting it in front of a wall and shining light on it. You'll see a pattern of dark/light.

Weird thing was, that the patterns seen, werent consistent with their predictions. They were all slightly off, every time. It didnt make a lot of sense.

Out of this inconsistency a theory was born:
Every particle has an anti-particle. A particle with exactly the same mass, but opposite charge. F.e. An electron has a -1 charge, its anti-particle is called a "posi-tron" and has the exact same mass, but a charge of +1.

The theory basically said that these particles were interfering with eachother, causing the slighly off patterns.

Beware though, these particles dont collide, dont ever touch eachother.
This is because these particles are born from one Foton ( quantum-mechanic energy packet ). If these two colide, they again form one or more fotons.
Fotons dont have mass, but mass cant just vanish.
Instead, its converted to energy using E = mc²

The ENTIRE masses of both particles are converted to energy that way.
c = speed of light = big number ... c² = really big number

The incredible blast an atomic bomb produces, comes forth from the fact that a nucleus splits and forms two new ones of about the same mass. Some mass is left behind and is then converted to energy ... this is usually something like 0.3 % IIRC.

o.3% causes hiroshima to go boom ... so if a particle collides with its anti-particle and 100% gets converted into energy, causing a chain-reaction ......
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Anywayz, that's a scientific way of "proving" a parallel dimension, because there's an exact duplicate of everybody and everything around.

EDIT:
the strings of the superstring-theory reside in 11 dimensions

[ 01-06-2003, 04:17 PM: Message edited by: daan ]