parallel universe

English

Noun

parallel universe (plural parallel universes)

1. (sciences, science fiction, cosmology) A universe that exists separately alongside another universe, as part of a multiverse.
   • 1998 [1997], David Deutsch, The Fabric of Reality, New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 202:

     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.

Synonyms

• parallel world

Antonyms

• periphrasis: non-parallelizable universe (mathematically incompatible; without a common superordinate wave function)

Translations

universe that exists separately alongside another universe

• Catalan: univers paral·lel m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 平行宇宙 (zh) (píngxíng yǔzhòu)

• Danish: parallelunivers n, parallelt univers n
• Esperanto: paralela universo
• Finnish: rinnakkainen maailmankaikkeus, rinnakkaistodellisuus
• French: univers parallèle (fr) m
• Georgian: პარალელური სამყარო (ṗaraleluri samq̇aro), პარალელური განზომილება (ṗaraleluri ganzomileba)
• German: Paralleluniversum (de) n
• Greek: παράλληλο σύμπαν n (parállilo sýmpan)
• Hungarian: párhuzamos univerzum
• Japanese: 平行宇宙 (heikō uchū)
• Portuguese: universo paralelo m
• Spanish: universo paralelo m
• Turkish: paralel evren

See also

• perpendicular universe

Further reading

• parallel universe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia