parallel universe
noun1
Astronomy, Cosmology, Literature, Media, Natural sciences, Publishing, Science fiction, Sciences A universe that exists separately alongside another universe, as part of a multiverse.
- Subjectively we perceive this as a single, unpredictable or ‘random’ outcome, though from the multiverse point of view all the outcomes have actually happened. This parallel-universe multiplicity is the real reason for the unpredictability of the weather.1998 [1997], David Deutsch, The Fabric of Reality, New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 202:
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The universe of an alternative history.
- Synonyms
- parallel world
- Antonyms
- non-parallelizable universe
- Related terms
- perpendicular universe