Basic Reality

There is that which is Everything that Exists, this we call Existence, or "The Universe as a Whole"

Within that there is our Known Universe, started by a Big Bang, about 13 billion years ago.

This universe (the known one) is made up of what we call a "spacetime continuum". Stars, planets, and all else, are in this spacetime continuum.

This spacetime continuum is made up of dimensions. There are the three spatial dimensions we observe. There is the temporal one we observe. And there are probably up to 26 dimensions total, most of which we do not observe.

Our spacetime continuum is real. It exists, as does all else. The dimensions exist, for even though we do not observe them all, there are experiments in math and in reality that...so far...tend to confirm them.

Now, none of that has anything to do with alternate universes. That is only the way this known universe is.

This known universe, is in that greater existent, The Universe as a Whole. It is likely that there are other "known universes" in that greater existent. Imagine a whole infinite slew of bubbles floating, jostling, moving in greater Universe as a Whole. (we could be the only bubble, we have no proof of others, but usually things are not so unique)

And each of these soap bubble "known universes" is different, they may have different physical laws, and stuff like that. Our soap bubble "known universe" is just one.

Now, none of that has anything to do with alternate universes. That is only the way the Universe as a Whole is.

Where alternates do come in, is when you take a closer look at one of the soap bubbles, in this case, ours.

You would, if able to look at it from the outside, standing in the Universe as a Whole viewing box, so to speak, observe that the bubble is very fuzzy.

The bubble is not so much represented by a line circle, but by a series of pointilist dots, which become dense enough in one general area to have the appearance of a circle.

To the left, right, up and down of the circle are other circles, overlayed, each ever so slightly off. Some are way off. Most are clustered. At the core, it is densest, and that is where are particular quantum probability lies, where are specific thread of the known universe lies.

The other dots as lines are varying other alternate versions of this soap bubble we are in. Most are so staggeringly close, that to speak of which one is real is irrelevent. They are all real, to those in them. And even real to us. But there is no "proper" one, that is better or worse intrinsically.

There is only that some are far more probable then others, and all these most probable ones are clustered, the others aren't.

That is what is.

Dean West