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This is one reason that some experts believe there may have been many other big bangs, perhaps trillions and trillions of them, spread through the mighty span of eternity, and that the reason we exist in this particular one is that this is one we could exist in. As Edward P. Tryton of Columbia Universithy once put it: "In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time."
—Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
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The first thing to realize about parallel universes, the Guide says, is that they are not parallel. |
George: I think the Purple Potty brought us to some kind of strange, backwards universe. |
Go then, there are other worlds than these.
—Stephen King, The Dark Tower
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"No one can say how many universes there may be, or how many cycles of ages in each universe there may ever have been; how many Brahmås, how many Vishnus, how many Shivas. O King of Gods, there are those in your service who hold that it might be possible to number the particles of sand on earth, or drops of rain that fall from the sky, but no one will ever number all the Indras. —Vishnu disguised as a boy, Joseph Campbell's The Inner Reaches of Outer Space, originally from the Brahma Vaivarta Purana
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