An explosive new paper by physicists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggests that we might not be existing in one universe but two of them.
The two universes of this duoverse have been named ARY and Geo.
“We have found that the conditions of these two universes are completely at odds with each other, with almost each and every situation different yet similar,” said Dr Shiela Richards, lead author of the paper. “It is quite fascinating.”
“We think that these two universes started out together but, somewhere along the line, they split into two different entities,” she said.
“Till this point, we thought that different universes, much like different planets, might have different laws of physics (only to the existence of different values of the same variables) but at least the laws of mathematics are still the same,” she said. “But the laws of mathematics are completely different in these two.”
“Consider, say, a car rally. What would be 10,000 participants in the Geo universe, would be 247 in the ARY universe,” she said. “This is quite fascinating!”