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Nobody knows what form these parallel worlds might take, and it's far from clear that we could detect their existence, let alone step through a mirror or a space warp for a visit. But hints that ours is just one of many universes keep cropping up in all sorts of different theories--and in ways that can seem far stranger than fiction...
...particle in the cosmos produces a multitude of new universes in each instant--and in the next instant, every one of these new universes fragments again. Yet plenty of physicists consider this to be a perfectly valid idea. And if it's correct, the number of universes evolving in parallel is far greater than we could ever count...
...purely theoretical, though, since there's no conceivable way to make contact with even one of these alternate universes. So while each of us may spawn an uncountable number of parallel selves as the particles within us split and re-split, the chance of tapping into our other histories is precisely zero--and so, alas, is the chance of figuring out whether this interpretation of quantum mechanics is correct...
...painfully clear: Although agents obtained the correct street address for the intended target, a Serbian government supply office, the two-year-old map the agency was using didn't have address numbers for buildings in the targeted area, so agents estimated the location by comparing address number from a parallel street. Compounding the error was the fact that the database the agency was using for a crosscheck hadn't been updated since before the embassy moved crosstown...
Essentially, Cambridgeport is laid out on a grid. Bordered on the north and south by Mass. Ave. and the Charles River, the neighborhood is segmented by four major streets running diagonally southwest to northeast. The streets run perfectly parallel, in a marked contrast to the winding streets so omnipresent in Cambridge...