Many Worlds Theory: You're in a Parallel Universe
Added 2023-09-14 19:31:11 +0000 UTCSo, tell me... how do you like being a movie star? I can't imagine your life. You can't walk down the street without being mobbed by adoring fans. You attend power-lunches with your agent. You pose for pictures on the red carpet on your way to collect your third Academy Award. Your life sounds fun.
Wait, what? You're not a movie star? That's not your life? Well, maybe not in *this* universe, but there is a universe out there where your life is exactly as I described.
The "Many Worlds" or "Multiple Universes" theory says that anything that can possibly happen *does* happen. It just happens in a different reality that exists parallel to our own.
There's a reality out there somewhere where you're a best-selling author. There's one where you're a Nobel Prize winning scientist who cured cancer.
There's even a reality out there, where you're an evil dictator plotting to take over the world. And you enforce your will with an army of AI robots that you invented when you were a grad student at Stanford.
Yes, some of these alternate realities are more far-fetched than others. But they *are* all out there.
Scientists know how these realities are formed and people are working on technology to detect them.
But even if we *could* detect alternate universes, there's no way to visit them.
Or is there?
Comments
I guess Ace Ventura two got it wrong about the Monopoly guy
Vincent Thomas
2025-06-05 19:45:13 +0000 UTCAlways a pleasure, solid story telling.
David Leatherman
2025-05-05 12:32:27 +0000 UTCI am convinced the gov is experimenting on the people with the mandala effect bs
Dustin Culver
2024-02-20 16:00:04 +0000 UTCWhy do local radio stations play the Queen version where it does say it? And in the film chicken little, he too says that line?
Dustin Culver
2024-02-20 15:51:32 +0000 UTCI've said many times, my C3PO was all gold, watched that stupid movie on live tv, my statue of liberty was never blown up, froot loops, I know and on and on....personally I think something happened to the world in 2012. But I have jt and heckle fish so meh..
Cb314
2023-09-25 00:49:31 +0000 UTCOh, thanks for explaining. I didn't realise it sounded like that. In fact he didn't get anything wrong (as far as I could tell). Edited my comment.
Ivari Tölp
2023-09-21 05:35:00 +0000 UTCYou are saying he got it wrong, but not horribly.
Harold Ploeg
2023-09-20 19:51:21 +0000 UTCWas it? I honestly didn't intend it as such.
Ivari Tölp
2023-09-18 01:45:13 +0000 UTCThat was a backhanded compliment.
Harold Ploeg
2023-09-18 01:43:56 +0000 UTC👋👍
Cb314
2023-09-17 20:08:08 +0000 UTCThis one was great! I enjoyed one that was more on physics and less on conspiracy theories (just for a change… I love conspiracy theories 😆). Also, as a physics nerd (not professionally, but I have studied it for a good while) I'm glad to see you got none of it wrong.
Ivari Tölp
2023-09-17 13:15:25 +0000 UTCLove this episode! I only wish I had a Hecklefish plushie that I ordered in July to watch it with. 😁 Maybe it got shipped through a wormhole, and I'll get it in another hundred thousand years.
Shanon Freeman
2023-09-17 00:08:31 +0000 UTCI read that same article yesterday. Found a link to it on Reddit. Looks genuine to me. I sent it through to WF on the Tips page.
Susi Su
2023-09-16 16:03:47 +0000 UTCThe send-up to Joe Scott was priceless!
Armando Mistral
2023-09-16 15:22:58 +0000 UTCSaw queen in concert several times in mid late 70s
Bosco Lemonzit
2023-09-16 14:12:38 +0000 UTCThey said, after the first verse and chorus, as they say “of the world” at the end, there’s two chorus at the end and says after the first one, they say of the world, but then they cut off after champion yet when they go to live performances, most of them put “of the world “ at the end of the second chorus so that’s kind of where that comes from
Bosco Lemonzit
2023-09-16 14:11:54 +0000 UTCYou know that’s interesting because just about anybody you ask if you give them an option as the supreme being says would you like to reboot to 1999 everybody answers yes to that question so did something happen around the year 2010 interesting idea that we definitely took the wrong road somewhere back around then
Bosco Lemonzit
2023-09-16 14:09:10 +0000 UTCAlmost every item listed for the Mandela effect can be explained Mandela didn’t die in the 80s it was another black leader in South Africa etc. etc. But the one that loops me completely is the claim in moonraker when Jaws smiles at the end with his mouth full of metal and the pretty young Swiss or German girl smiles back. She had a mouth full of braces and wires. I asked a buddy of mine he’s checked with friends He said the braces everybody he’s asked immediately say braces and they are not there. That’s the one that throws me for a loop. I even posted a link a few weeks ago to an article from some Dinkytown newspaper in Illinois back in the early 70s and in the article -guy reviewing the movie and says she has a mouth full of braces
Bosco Lemonzit
2023-09-16 14:06:49 +0000 UTCAlso Lolol the who’s the boss joke with Tony Danza had me rolling
Chris Conlan
2023-09-16 10:22:26 +0000 UTCIma need a alternative universe talking AJ plushie spaceman ASAP!!
Chris Conlan
2023-09-16 10:20:27 +0000 UTCAs a early fan and Patreon member, I’m excited to share say I absolutely loved this episode! It felt like you returned to your origins of science, and empathy for people. I hugged my Heckle plushie as I viewed the episode. Thank you for continuing to be genuine!!
Susan Towers
2023-09-16 03:50:08 +0000 UTCLoved it!
Tiph Tobie
2023-09-16 01:45:23 +0000 UTCLove when those positive messages like at the end are tied into the episodes <3
Aidan
2023-09-15 22:39:51 +0000 UTCAmazing AS ALWAYS!!!
7Heather7
2023-09-15 17:26:51 +0000 UTCSuch a great episode. Enjoyed it a lot. Your whole team does such great work.
Jen Giresi
2023-09-15 14:56:06 +0000 UTCSo I don’t know the EdMcMahon one please tell me! I one hundred percent remember the girl having braces because I had them at the time that I saw the movie in the theater. I think those of us who are really experiencing the Mandela effect were teenagers in the 80’s. I remember making a T-shirt about freeing Nelson Mandela and even have a photo of me making it in my high school yearbook and then when he died I was devastated. Then when I heard he died in the 2000’s I was shocked and figured I must been losing my mind !
DBS PURGE
2023-09-15 14:01:34 +0000 UTCWow there are so many Patreons now! I used to wait a couple minutes to see my name but this time I had time to travel through a worm hole and then come back. Gino's a tea guy over there. Ah my name should pop any time soon now, see ya Lizzid people!
Simon
2023-09-15 13:57:34 +0000 UTCI think this is my favorite video you have made and I definitely think there is a whole lot we just don’t understand. So glad that you put all of this into one video - sharing it with friends on YouTube.
DBS PURGE
2023-09-15 13:52:05 +0000 UTCwow this make so much sense
Andrew Key
2023-09-15 09:41:50 +0000 UTCIf wormholes exist, are there wormhole aliens and Pah-Wraiths? Asking for my friend Sisko.
Scott Crawford
2023-09-15 09:31:23 +0000 UTCAmazing episode as always....one little thing...."We are the Champions" is not really a Mandela effect. Freddy sometimes sings it at the end of the first chorus, and not always at the end of the song. However, in every version of the song he does always sing it at some point. Like here it actually does end with "of the world". https://youtu.be/KXw8CRapg7k?si=sEtR9X-7zSoW8-Zq
!!@@Tomasz Mis@@!!
2023-09-15 07:51:08 +0000 UTCI knew I hit the lottery yesterday! It just wasn't in this universe! Damn!
Christopher Nichols
2023-09-15 03:53:31 +0000 UTCHecklefish was on fire in this one! He was ultraviolet
Jared Rasmussen
2023-09-15 02:50:17 +0000 UTCGREAT episode guys! Maybe the best yet on so many levels! Thank you so much! LOVE to the whole Why Files team ❤️
Adam Nevatt
2023-09-15 02:41:55 +0000 UTCBest episode I’ve seen yet! Thanks AJ!
George Bassett
2023-09-15 02:14:32 +0000 UTCA universe where Mark Chapman got hit by a bus and John Lennon glanced over and kept walking.
Brad Moran
2023-09-15 02:14:32 +0000 UTCHe had to show that F-16! Now I'm going to have to binge air craft related content!
Shawn Grant
2023-09-15 02:11:59 +0000 UTCFANTASTIC episode!!!! More, more, more!!!! :)
19BiGRED74
2023-09-15 01:54:42 +0000 UTCGreat episode, but what about white holes and singularities? We’re supposedly made up of those…
Kat Gamage
2023-09-15 01:52:54 +0000 UTCthere's a universe where my living room carpet got vacuumed today, and that makes me happy for other-universe me.
Whiskey Tango-Foxtrot
2023-09-15 00:54:58 +0000 UTCI have been aware of this for many years, and I do have visions of things, I believed to be my last many lives. At the end of queen, mercury does say of the world, I have sang it many time, listened to it, thousands times, Just got to wait, and not cut it off near the end, wait for it to finish. The radio does that all the time, starts a new song before the last ends completely.
John Seychel
2023-09-15 00:47:44 +0000 UTCFascinating, and of course there is so much more. You did a great job. Thank you.
Kazren
2023-09-15 00:32:30 +0000 UTCBest show. Makes you smarter for watching. Lol.
Jesse Howard
2023-09-15 00:23:47 +0000 UTCOk I’m completely disturbed. It makes sense. Dang. I’ve been bad. lol.
Jesse Howard
2023-09-15 00:23:01 +0000 UTCShout out for the Answers with Joe reference !!!
CJAY SEVEN
2023-09-15 00:13:51 +0000 UTCGreat Job , Excellent Episode😆
Heft 42°
2023-09-15 00:09:36 +0000 UTCQueen does say "Of the world" tho
Steven
2023-09-14 23:57:29 +0000 UTCReally one of the best episodes so far - goes deep but keeps it breezy and pacey, great graphics and very funny bits
Stu Ferrol
2023-09-14 23:56:40 +0000 UTCI don’t know if you different music in every episode but I really loved the music in this one. Loved it.
GibsonMagicTime
2023-09-14 23:47:13 +0000 UTCI am not an evil dictator. I am a fair but...
MikeD
2023-09-14 23:36:57 +0000 UTCI rewatched it recently after 10 years and it’s still great! I forgot so many things.
GibsonMagicTime
2023-09-14 23:34:54 +0000 UTCBelieve whatever you want. Everything you described in the Mandela effect… I remember. I'm old enough to remember. I believe something they did with the hadron collider or at CERN changed our reality around the year 2000. It seems we jumped into another timeline. Who would have ever believed that Trump "you're fired" would become president? But he did! Watch the show "continuum".
Nomad Adventures
2023-09-14 23:34:48 +0000 UTCYes!!! I forgot about that one! I saw it in the theater. It doesn’t even make sense unless she has the braces as well! I remember it vividly. WTF!?
Maija Smith
2023-09-14 23:24:44 +0000 UTCMoonraker is the one that throws me everybody I’ve asked, remembers the girl having a metal mouth of braces
Bosco Lemonzit
2023-09-14 23:21:56 +0000 UTCExcellent episode. It has it all... the Multiverse, the Quantum realm, the Mandela effect, Phillip K. Dick, and crabcat in a box. 😆 I enjoyed every second.
Nikki G_0
2023-09-14 23:07:45 +0000 UTCThis is a beautiful episode, I carry the idea of the butterfly effect with me throughout life I think its a good thing for everybody to do, enjoy life and make smart decisions. YOLO
Yokai
2023-09-14 22:58:27 +0000 UTCHow do we access them? Ask Prince Corwin and walk the pattern.
Patrick Thomas
2023-09-14 22:54:45 +0000 UTCIt’s either that or the alternative and I’m not super comfortable with multiple versions of me or the possibility of simulations!
Parakativity Kat Parris
2023-09-14 22:52:53 +0000 UTCWOW!!! I thought my life was « over » but, seems to me I have a lot more decisions to take, experiences to live. Who knows, I may find something, someone…
Benoit Dube
2023-09-14 22:51:55 +0000 UTCI LOVE This episode. In writing my books I often feel like I am not inventing a story, but reporting what has happened somewhere. I later read what I wrote to edit it, and am blown away by the details, some of which I actually do not remember writing! What’s more, I often find things in our current reality that line up to something I wrote about with no prior knowledge.! It gets spooky, and it keeps happening. Thank’s AJ fir doing such a good job on this snd other concepts. Your channel is one I listen to repeatedly so I get all the nuances if each episode. You deserve to get sponsored by everyone.
Steve Stone
2023-09-14 22:46:47 +0000 UTCI think they are talking about the "of the world" at the very end of the song. It IS in another version that gets played a lot the "Live Aid" performance so that's probably the source of this confusion lol
Joe L
2023-09-14 22:23:51 +0000 UTCYess!! A shoutout to Walter. As soon as I read the title of this video I thought of Fringe & Walter's window invention. Loved that show. I need to rewatch it. And Sliders too, I forgot about that show, another great one.
RomeroCarpenterGaming
2023-09-14 22:21:49 +0000 UTCThe original track played on the radio doesn't end with it, BUT the live aid performance does and that gets played A TON. So this one is likely a misremember driven by the two versions.
Joe L
2023-09-14 22:21:28 +0000 UTCYou are already a legend lol
Joe L
2023-09-14 22:19:11 +0000 UTCLove the idea of this but also slightly weirded out. I swear the songs last words were “of the world”. I have very clear memories as a teen at my brothers baseball games and that song always played and said “of the world”.
Parakativity Kat Parris
2023-09-14 22:17:51 +0000 UTCAJ after 'comedy comes in threes.' LOL
Alexander 🦊
2023-09-14 22:10:48 +0000 UTCHecklefish was on point in this episode, love it!!
Cullen Bealer
2023-09-14 22:10:28 +0000 UTCGreat episode as usual. I really dig this multiverse stuff!! BTW the Queen song does end with 'of the world' and Sinbad most definitely made the movie Shazam!!
THE Marcus Aurelius
2023-09-14 22:10:11 +0000 UTCFear the crabcat
Robert Oxendine
2023-09-14 22:07:05 +0000 UTCSliders!
Brian Perkins
2023-09-14 22:01:40 +0000 UTCAwesome! Thank you!
Amy_OnlyForHecklefish
2023-09-14 21:59:05 +0000 UTCGreat ep AJ. Now to unite all the universes versions of me so that one of them can deal with work in the morning
Lee Bonds
2023-09-14 21:56:17 +0000 UTCAwesome episode but I very much remember Mandela dying in prison, I remember that night it was on the news, that is the only memory I have on it, no way did I ever come across him dying later where ever it was supposed to be and yes the Queen song ends with of the world, dead sure of it.
Birdie the Cockatiel Randt
2023-09-14 21:45:01 +0000 UTCYeah there are multiple recorded versions of the song and that line is in at least one. I remember it with piano playing right after so I knew it wasn't at the end.
Safe and effective!
2023-09-14 21:42:21 +0000 UTCGreat episode!! Now I know why I sometimes sit on the couch feeling exhausted without actually being productive. It's because another version of me had a really busy day!
Dwight Wood
2023-09-14 21:40:53 +0000 UTCWhat the hell just happened to the end of We Are the Champions?! I heard it on the radio a few days ago and the "of the world" was there!
Jason Spencer
2023-09-14 21:39:04 +0000 UTCAwesome episode! The Mandela effect and sim theory are two of my favorite wool gathering spots.
John and Melissa Jett
2023-09-14 21:22:55 +0000 UTCOk good cuz that one was really freaking me out lol
John Lancaster
2023-09-14 21:09:49 +0000 UTCAnother brilliant episode. Thanks...
Douglas Morrow
2023-09-14 21:08:55 +0000 UTCVery fun. 😁
Jeremy Shorter
2023-09-14 21:00:15 +0000 UTCGreat job guys! These vids make my week! May I make a suggestion for a future episode? Perhaps running parallel to this subject: Dreams, and the possible crossing of boundaries into alternate realities, via astral projection or other means. It may be that our caveman brains just can't deal with all that reality on a regular basis, so we explore while we sleep.
Pete Mitchell
2023-09-14 20:51:05 +0000 UTC1st, Counterpart was a great show! 2nd..my jaw dropped with the "Other" set lol. Well done!
Sonny A
2023-09-14 20:50:30 +0000 UTCAJ if you haven't yet check out Dark Journalist and Dr. Joseph Farrell. They touch a lot of the subjects you cover.
Safe and effective!
2023-09-14 20:50:18 +0000 UTCThat was amazing. My mind is blown. But, I love the sentiment at the end regarding our choices. Choose them wisely 😌
Colin Butterworth
2023-09-14 20:47:01 +0000 UTCThe audio improvement is noticeable in the new set up. It was always good before but it's even better now.
Adrian Kemp
2023-09-14 20:42:45 +0000 UTCThose Mandela effects warp my brain. Queen, the monocle, Sinbad, Berenstein Bears, & most of all Ed McMahon. The reasoning of misremembering would be one thing but the fact so many people remember it that same specific way… I don’t buy it. The alternative reality is the only thing that makes sense. I’ve always thought about a reality where Europeans assimilated to the Indigenous population here on turtle island. Hopefully there’s one that nature is revered & respected. Great show as usual!!
Maija Smith
2023-09-14 20:41:26 +0000 UTCAnother great episode! In another reality Hecklefish is actually my sidekick...just saying.
Kevin Wilson
2023-09-14 20:35:14 +0000 UTCCompletely agree!
The Why Files
2023-09-14 20:32:23 +0000 UTCMega ULTRA favorite??? Squeeeeee!
The Why Files
2023-09-14 20:31:41 +0000 UTCI loved Fringe. It's been a while and with the crap coming out now, due to the writer strike, it's probably a great time to rewatch it!
Tyler McLean
2023-09-14 20:27:32 +0000 UTCWatched here, excellent as always but I will watch again on u tube tomorrow for the adverts, I cant miss them ,always funny. Edge of my seat every week. You guys make me laugh so much but make me wonder about the universe & humanity. No answers in our lifetime but you make the ride fun 😉
Andrew Ellis
2023-09-14 20:26:58 +0000 UTCThe video ending reminds me of one of my favorite literary quotes; "Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow. The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds." -- Mathurin Kerbouchard (The Walking Drum by Louis L'Amour)
Trevor Valentine
2023-09-14 20:21:26 +0000 UTCAnother great one!
SnowCrash
2023-09-14 20:19:17 +0000 UTCThis is my mega ultra favorite episode so far! That says a lot when they are all my favorite. Thank you once again! Fascinating and hilarious! 😁💜
RoLo
2023-09-14 20:18:10 +0000 UTCFirs, ah crap!
Bosco Lemonzit
2023-09-14 20:17:49 +0000 UTCThis one's going to be interesting! I've always been fascinated by multiverse theories.
Jason Moore
2023-09-14 20:16:15 +0000 UTCYou never disappoint, love from the steel city UK
Andrew Ellis
2023-09-14 20:15:37 +0000 UTCWe are the champions of the world is in the song just not at the end
Safe and effective!
2023-09-14 20:14:24 +0000 UTCIn my universe the why files didn’t exist so I jumped on a quark & landed here
Andrew Ellis
2023-09-14 20:14:13 +0000 UTCGreat episode 😃
Mandy McRobert
2023-09-14 20:11:55 +0000 UTCI know that I was thinking both...
CJ Jones
2023-09-14 20:07:14 +0000 UTCI think we all can jump... one tiny step every day. The ones that come with a Mandela Effect are a little weird, though. 🌝
Paul
2023-09-14 19:52:25 +0000 UTCLove the Joe Scott easter egg! :)
Jeff Okeson
2023-09-14 19:51:41 +0000 UTCI AM a legend, in another reality. The Great Werminator! ;)
Bill Alexander
2023-09-14 19:45:58 +0000 UTCI can never decide whether to watch now or the premier…. wait: BOTH!
Michael Adcock
2023-09-14 19:45:26 +0000 UTCCan’t wait to get back home and listen to this! Thank you for the amazing & constant content ❤️🌟
Vincent Fortin
2023-09-14 19:45:26 +0000 UTCI would Love to Believe This...But Why Do I Only Know This one...if it's Me In Another Time line Then it's not Really Me...Because I Only Know This one!!! I Think about this Stuff all The Time......Thanks AJ....I'll watch This Tonight...See You Then!!☮️💜🤗
Kym Andreozzi
2023-09-14 19:45:12 +0000 UTCYes! I have been wanting your perspective on this. Can't wait to cuddle up with my Hecklefish stuffy and enjoy 😉
Tegan
2023-09-14 19:44:22 +0000 UTCHiya Andrew!
The Why Files
2023-09-14 19:41:45 +0000 UTCYou’re so good with the bait lines. I’m hooked. Can’t wait to hear this one. So many different realities. So many timelines. Mind blowing.
Glennerd
2023-09-14 19:41:24 +0000 UTCAfternoon AJ & Hecklefish! Thanks for the vid!😘
Angeline JoVan
2023-09-14 19:40:44 +0000 UTCI thought he was talking to hecklefish with that opening.... 🐡
ed pluck
2023-09-14 19:38:45 +0000 UTCThis premise is fantastic most of the time I find myself thinking on what could've happened if I did (or didn't) do something in the past... truly thank you.
Jay Ayala
2023-09-14 19:37:14 +0000 UTCHi AJ
Andrew Ellis
2023-09-14 19:32:35 +0000 UTC
