Multiverse Quotes

“Imagine you’re a fish, swimming in a pond. You can move forward and back, side to side, but never up out of the water. If someone were standing beside the pond, watching you, you’d have no idea they were there. To you, that little pond is an entire universe. Now imagine that someone reaches down and lifts you out of the pond. You see that what you thought was the entire world is only a small pool. You see other ponds. Trees. The sky above. You realize you’re a part of a much larger and more mysterious reality than you had ever dreamed of.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“It is only one world in infinite universes where this impossible happiness exists, but that is what makes it so valuable.”
― Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds

“Have you ever truly, keenly felt like you don't know who you are? Do you ever do something and think, Who is at the controls? Like some mad pilot has locked you out of the cockpit? I definitely do. I feel a kind of vertigo that makes me shake afterwards. I guess we all feel it when making a difficult-seeming choice, and sometimes you seriously don't know what you want because you don't know who you're supposed to be, or who you want to be. Physics, my first and second families, my philosophy degree, had all failed to help me answer that question. The former has led me to wonder whether I am one of an infinite number of Alices in multiple universes. A quantum fuck-up, which is someone who fucks up in every one of those universes but in different ways.”
― Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy

“There had to be one universe — just this one — where we don’t end up together. Here and now just happens to be it.”
― Gaby Dunn, Maybe in Another Universe: The Best of Gaby Dunn, Vol. 1

“Being present is being connected to All Things.”
― S. Kelley Harrell

“It’s hard to build models of inflation that don't lead to a multiverse. It’s not impossible, so I think there’s still certainly research that needs to be done. But most models of inflation do lead to a multiverse, and evidence for inflation will be pushing us in the direction of taking [the idea of a] multiverse seriously.”
― Alan H. Guth

“She slammed an angry fist into the light metal field table. A stack of datapads bounced and fell to the ground. “Damn it! Find me legitimate targets so I can kill them!”
― Christian Warren Freed, The Lazarus Men

“The problem with ID, of course, is that it leaves open the possibility that the intelligence behind nature may have a moral interest in us, having communicated already with humanity in the past, and might try to boss you around in your private affairs.

With hypothetical advanced aliens residing at a safely distant address in the hypothetical multiverse, that is - to the relief of folks like Gribbin, Dawkins and the New Scientist - manifestly not the case.”
― David Klinghoffer

“What is grief if not love persevering?”
― WandaVision

“Jagad raya ini terdiri atas banyak alam semesta. Semuanya eksis sekaligus dalam suatu medium tunggal yang kami sebut sebagai roomental. Roomental sendiri adalah partikel unik yang bersifat tunggal dan gabungan. Dalam level roomental sudah ada ruang, tapi bukan dalam pengertian ‘ruang’ seperti persepsimu saat ini. Ruang yang kau persepsikan saat ini dibentuk oleh suatu partikel yang membentuk elektron dan positron. Baik elektron maupun positron, keduanya masih jauh lebih besar daripada ukuran partikel penyusun semesta ini.”
― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“The structures of the multiverse are hidden by the reality principles of complex numbers in quantum physics. This is why the parallel universes that make up the multiverse can't be seen by each other.”
― Amit Ray, Quantum Computing Algorithms for Artificial Intelligence

“The parallel universes that make up the multiverse are mutually invisible because the structures of the multiverse are hidden by the reality principles of complex numbers in quantum physics. ”
― Amit Ray, Quantum Computing Algorithms for Artificial Intelligence

“Each Reading is another form of Time Travel or Experiencing the Multiverse.”
― Pradip Bendkule

“Atlantis sinks.

Serves it right. Red hates the place. For one thing, there are so many Atlantises, always sinking, in so many strands: an island off Greece, a mid-Atlantic continent, an advanced pre-Minoan civilization on Crete, a spaceship floating north of Egypt, on and on. Most strands lack Atlantis altogether, know the place only through dreams and mad poets’ madder whispers.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“If we say that an individual's character is revealed by the choices they make over time, then, in a similar fashion, an individual's character would also be revealed by the choices they make across many worlds.”
― Ted Chiang, Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom

“Silitonga had shown that the smallest change imaginable would eventually have global repercussions. For a hypothetical time traveler who wanted to prevent Hitler’s rise to power, the minimal intervention wasn’t smothering the baby Adolf in his crib; all that was needed was to travel back to a month before his conception and disturb an oxygen molecule. Not only would this replace Adolf with a sibling, it would replace everyone his age or younger. By 1920 that would have composed half of the world’s population.”
― Ted Chiang, Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom

“Branches are generated by any quantum event, right? Even before we had prisms, branches were still splitting off constantly; we just didn’t have access to any of them. If it were true that there’s always a branch where you pick up a gun and shoot someone on a whim, then we should have seen the same number of random murders every day before the prism was invented as we saw every day after. The invention of prisms wouldn’t cause more of those murders to line up in this particular branch. So if we’re seeing more people killing one another since prisms became popular, it can’t be because there’s always a branch where you pick up a gun.” “I follow your reasoning,” said Zareenah, “but then what’s causing the rise in murders?” Kevin shrugged. “It’s like a suicide fad. People hear about other people doing it, and it gives them ideas.” Nat thought about it. “That proves that the argument can’t be right, but it doesn’t explain why it’s wrong.”
― Ted Chiang, Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom

“In discussions about free will, a lot of people say that for an action of yours to be freely chosen - for you to bear moral responsibility for that action - you must have had the ability to do something else under exactly the same circumstances.”
― Ted Chiang, Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom

“When a prism was activated, a quantum measurement was performed inside the device, with two possible outcomes of equal probability:”
― Ted Chiang, Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom

“A good thing to do is to think about what people have done. Not only people that you've read about in books or seen on the news or heard mentioned in deliberate conversation, and not only deeds that are noteworthy. It's good to think about all the possibilities of what people have probably done. The scope of what's possible, statistical probabilities of unique behavior and unusual action in the 200,000 years that people have existed because there are more than 7 billion of us alive right now and that's not including the number of people who have ever lived. Within those numbers exist captivating, eccentric, strange, fanciful variation, when you consider what people have probably done. Like, every time you've had an impulse that you've held back, imagine that there has been a person who has had that same impulse and gone through with it, because there probably has been. Imagine any type of person and any type of story having happened because when you do that, it feels like you're creating, but you're probably not. Imagine, considering the magnitude of these numbers and the variables within each human being, that all possibilities have occurred. If physical anomalies like twins born with bodies totally fused together resembling two-headed, eight limbed, human spiders, or a man born with a shrunken female head affixed to the back of his own head, which was animated without being consciously controlled by him, then imagine that anything you can imagine has occurred. However typical or atypical, these things you're imagining have happened. These people you're thinking of have been.”
― Ani Baker, Handsome Vanilla

“There may very well have been a tennis player named Dennis whose only reason for playing tennis was for the thrill of the rhyme. There may have even been two Tennis Dennises. In fact, with billions and billions of people, 200,000 years, give or take the years before tennis was a sport, there may have even been three.
You might find that thinking this way expands your freedom, your consideration of your own capability, the spectrum of what all people can be, and can do.”
― Ani Baker, Handsome Vanilla

“Streams of brown, soapy water ran from him toward the drain. It circled there before falling in. He closed his eyes tightly so that the soap on his head wouldn’t burn them.

“Here’s a little brain exercise for you, Azure: I used to wonder where all the water goes,” said Neela, sitting on a stool outside the tub. “It doesn’t just disappear into nothingness. It needs to go somewhere. But we don’t have normal sewers like the ground districts do. So, what do you think happens to it?”

“I-I d-d-don’t know…”

“There are pipes beneath us we can’t see. Just because we can’t see the pipes doesn’t mean that the pipes aren’t there. They’re there, alright. They have to be. Winding and weaving. We see their effects, otherwise we’d be swimming in filth. Some come from our sinks. Some come from our tubs. Some come from our toilets. But they’re all connected somewhere. All that dirty water is filtered out and treated somewhere. Some giant collection pool.”
― Steven Seril, The Destroyer of Worlds: An Answer to Every Question

“An Angel told me that all of creation, further than the eye can see, can be thought of as a great tree. Its branches, twigs, and leaves have lives and directions of their own. They grow—winding, weaving, deviating, breaking, dying—as fate allows. Still, no matter their lives and directions, they all share the same trunk & the same roots, the same singular point of origin. Like the roots under the soil of the ground, we may not see them, but we know they’re there. Without roots, the tree would fall over in the wind or it would die from lack of nutrients.

The Angel said that there once existed a single universe at the root, a grandfather universe, which most sentient beings might call “Heaven.” It was a glorious place that burned with otherworldly flames that radiated from the angelic host and the God of gods so that it was never dark and never night.

A great disaster came upon Heaven: the very first rebellion, the very first war.”
― Steven Seril, The Destroyer of Worlds: An Answer to Every Question

“Multiverse theorists are certainly stark mad. They cannot make a worm, yet they will be making entire universes without a second thought.”
― David Sinclair, This Quintessence of Dust: If Humans Aren’t Dust, What Are They?

“In this almost impossible scenery, Galilhai finally went into a deep sleep, one that went beyond dreams and imagination. She had entered the Other World, a spiritual realm that resided below the surface of Pyramid Lake and beyond.”
― Ricardo L. Ogdon, A Pyramid Lake Story: Below the Surface: There is a secret hidden deep underneath Pyramid Lake

“I’m not sure about the math,” said Dana. “But I definitely think that your choices matter. Every decision you make contributes to your character and shapes the kind of person you are. If you want to be someone who always gives the extra money back to the cashier, the actions you take now affect whether you’ll become that person. “The branch where you’re having a bad day and keep the extra change is one that split off in the past; your actions can’t affect it anymore. But if you act compassionately in this branch, that’s still meaningful, because it has an effect on the branches that will split off in the future. The more often you make compassionate choices, the less likely it is that you’ll make selfish choices in the future, even in the branches where you’re having a bad day.” “That sounds good, but—” Nat thought about how years of acting a certain way could wear ruts in a person’s brain, so that you would keep slipping into the same habits without trying to. “But it’s not easy,” said Nat. “I know it’s not,” said Dana. “But the question was, given that we know about other branches, whether making good choices is worth doing. I think it absolutely”
― Ted Chiang, Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom

“The only way to perceive a three-dimension is to be in a fourth-dimension.”
― Joey Lawsin, Inscription by Design

“They have opened a gate to the lower planes in this outer cave,” Avernil explained. “Nvisi says the barrier between the planes—”

“The Faerzress,” Zak interjected.

“We call it the Mezzonel, the winding fabric of Piu.”

“Piu?”

“Piu . . .” Avernil lifted his gaze and his arm, looking all around, sweeping his arm as he did. “The Everything. All that is and all that will ever be. Piu.”

Zak nodded. “The multiverse.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Lolth's Warrior

“The soul, is that which propagates across the cosmic field and is connected to all of existence. And let me tell you, your soul, is a powerful soul.”
― Kevin L. Michel, The 7 Laws of Quantum Power

“At a workshop attended by expert researchers in quantum mechanichs in 1997, Max Tegmark took an admittedly highly unscienfific poll of the participants' favored interpretation of quantum mechanics. The Copenhagen interpretation came in first with thirteen votes, while the many-worlds interpretation came in second with eight. Another nine votes were scattered among other alternatives. Most interesting, eighteen votes were cast for "None of the above/undecided." And these are the experts.”
― Sean Carroll, From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time