Mystery AtlasMultiverse Hypothesis
The proposal, arising mainly as a consequence of eternal cosmic inflation models developed by Alan Guth and Andrei Linde, that our observable universe is one of many causally disconnected "bubble" universes continually generated by an ongoing inflationary process; currently untestable by any known observation.
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Multiverse Hypothesis is frequently compared to Simulation Hypothesis — Both are speculative, currently unfalsifiable proposals about the nature of reality beyond the directly observable universe, often discussed together in popular science coverage.
Multiverse Hypothesis attempts to explain What Preceded the Big Bang.
Multiverse Hypothesis served as the basis for Mandela Effect — The popular "parallel universe" explanation for the Mandela Effect borrows its vocabulary from real, still-developing multiverse physics without being supported or implied by it.
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What, If Anything, Came Before the Big Bang?
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What Is the Mandela Effect, and What Causes It?
What the Mandela Effect is: how it got its name, real psychological research on collective false memory, and the parallel-universe theory some prefer.