Now here's something really different

So far I've sort of set a standard of merely political fodder for this blog cannon, however I'd like to include subjects that aren't necessarily political in nature, or rather of a partisan tone. Whether it's other news items, developments in science, technology, medicine, the environment, or other musings, they will be included.

Anyways, one topic of particular interest is the recent explosion of interest in, and acceptance of theoretical physics. Although this subject is finally beginning to appear in the mainstream news media (moreso in current affairs programming and European broadcasting), I feel it deserves much more wider and indepth coverage, as it is a truly groundbreaking and monumental discovery in the history of our species and civilization.

The following is a fascinating documentary from the BBC:

Scientists now believe there may really be a parallel universe - in fact, there may be an infinite number of parallel universes, and we just happen to live in one of them. These other universes contain space, time and strange forms of exotic matter. Some of them may even contain you, in a slightly different form. Astonishingly, scientists believe that these parallel universes exist less than one millimetre away from us. In fact, our gravity is just a weak signal leaking out of another universe into ours.

The same but different.

For years parallel universes were a staple of the Twilight Zone. Science fiction writers loved to speculate on the possible other universes which might exist. In one, they said, Elvis Presley might still be alive or in another the British Empire might still be going strong. Serious scientists dismissed all this speculation as absurd. But now it seems the speculation wasn't absurd enough. Parallel universes really do exist and they are much stranger than even the science fiction writers dared to imagine.