The Many Worlds Interpretation is complicated.

But you don't have to understand quantum mechanics to recognize when people from one universe encounter people from another. Consider what happened March 1, 2005, at Buckingham Palace.

Queen Elizabeth II was introduced to Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, and Brian May at a day-long event honoring the British music industry.

​As the article notes, and the video within the article shows, she didn't know much about any of them despite the five of them having lived much of their adult lives in proximity to each other on an island much smaller than any universe, parallel or otherwise.

My friend, Paula Johnson, sent me the link to that article. She's a large part of the reason The Unlived Lives of Raymond Quinn became a success.

​Attention, newbie authors, those who are thinking about or who are currently writing a book:

Whether you know it or not, you, too, are in a universe parallel to the ones inhabited by those who know how to do so successfully.

Reach out to Paula for all the book writing/publishing/marketing know-how you didn't know you don't know.

She will help you when she has answers for questions you didn't know to ask, and will tell you when she doesn't.

I occasionally like to revisit explanations of the 'multiverse', now generally accepted as being what most mean when referring to all parallel universes together.

I don't do this believing I will finally understand the science behind the Many Worlds Theory debate. I won't. Mostly I do it as a reminder to stay out of that debate, leaving it to those whose science education progressed beyond mine (high school botany, college biology.)

Here's one fairly recent article, if you're willing to accept one written four years ago, "updated" March of this year, as being recent.

There's always at least one '...to simplify it...' statement in these explanations. You know, where the author believes they have dumbed down something complex to a level people like me can understand. Like this from the above article.

"No matter what the two did, they couldn’t rid the receivers of background radio noise that, puzzlingly, seemed to be coming from all directions at once. Penzias contacted Princeton University physicist Robert Dicke who suggested that the radio noise might be cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB), which is primordial microwave radiation that fills the universe. And that is the story of the discovery of CMB. Simple and elegant." 

(A little off topic, but reading the above again reminded me of the Steve Martin plumber joke. Ok, where was I?🤔 Oh, yeah...)  

My blog posts, book ads, the books themselves sometimes incite sciencetifity types who believe I believe I have said something they know to be false. They correct me.

People, my Unlived Lives stories are FICTION! All of it, made up. Not a word of truth in any of it. There's nothing for you to correct. 😲

(Unless you're my editor or Paula, then there is a lot for you to correct, which you get paid to do so shut up! 😠)

Asking someone to explain how there might be an infinite number of all of us "out there" somewhere, existing in an infinite number of universes parallel to the one we live in, is a big ask.

I'll take a stab at it.

You begin life as the only 'you'. Initially, others make choices for you, but the older you get the more you make (or don't make, not choosing is a choice) yourself.

Who makes the choice does not matter. What does matter is that each choice creates a large to infinite number of possible outcomes now followed by an equally large to infinite number of 'yous'.

The multiverse theory assumes the universe splits when a decision is reached, an action is taken. Decide to go here not there on vacation, SHAZAM: a new you in a new universe each of you becoming something different from that point onward based on your different choices. All your 'yous' continue down paths different from each other and the one you, the original 'you', is on.

Still with me?

Your new 'yous' are not identical copies of the original you. Soon, the vast majority will be so different as to be unrecognizable having ever been you. Different choices will lead to exponentially different outcomes no matter how small the choice option differences appear to be. 

Kind of like identical twins at birth who grow up looking nothing like the other.

After the divorce, one raised by dad, the other by mom, each parent practising a completely different approach to raising their twin.

I know this is true, one of my 'yous' told me it is. 😐️