Word: parallelling
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This is not to say there is no hope that the next president of Peru will be elected in a fair and democratic manner. Fujimori's actions are curiously parallel to those of former Argentine Peronist President Carlos Saul Menem who also pressed until he found a way around the Argentine constitution, offering him the possibility of a third term, in 1998. Yet despite his backhanded methods, Menem was defeated in Argentina's elections last fall...
...universe could thus be the result of an inflationary bubble that formed in a pre-existing universe--an arena better described as a metauniverse, or metaverse. Other, parallel bubbles could have formed just as easily. (If two expanding bubbles somehow met, the result would be a wall of fiery energy spanning one side of the cosmos. No evidence of that to date...
...detection would be a powerful boost to alternate-universe theories. "Confirming inflation," says Princeton physicist Paul Steinhardt, "would give us a lot more confidence about some of its implications." And that includes ideas that have lived until now only in the parallel universe of fantasy...
...Oxford physicist David Deutsch might allow such history-changing visits. In this picture, there are many interlacing world histories, so that if you went back in time and killed your grandmother when she was a young girl, this would simply cause space-time to branch off into a new parallel universe that doesn't interfere with the familiar...
...this universe--except perhaps the mind of a rebellious teenager--that is stranger than the bright cutting edge of science? We try to wrap our imagination around the radical ideas that modern scientists take for granted, but we're left breathless. Cosmic strings that snap like rubber bands! Parallel universes that sprout like bubbles! Wormholes! Gravity waves! Particles that vibrate not in three or four dimensions...