The Other Side of The Quantum Multiverse

I’m losing my mind. On Wednesday, I met my daughter for the first time in over a year. She wept, and her emaciated body shivered in the cold. She said my ex-wife, her mum, was abusing her, keeping her confined in her room in a damp cold house.

She had been held captive for the last four years. I hugged her as she told me about not knowing if it was a weekday or a weekend or who the PM was. She was skin and bone, but she smiled as we reminisced about her happier childhood.

Her hair was matted and covered with a simple scarf, and she smelt strongly of unwashed gym clothes, but it did not matter. I was just glad to see her, at last.

I asked God what I had done to deserve this. Why punish my daughter? She did not deserve this. God is not a person. Instead, he’s a thought, a rumour, a fable, an idea. I believe, but I did not expect God to speak to me and explain his thinking. Why does he punish the innocent?

The next day, God spoke to me. OK, not like voices, but he transported me to another universe. One of the many worlds of quantum physics. Almost exactly like our universe but subtly different from our world. He showed me life on the other side of the multiverse.

So I’ll tell you about this other universe that I visited briefly. I’m unsure if it was a dream or a vision, but I was there. It looks very much like our own universe.

It has the same streets, same people, same countries, same races, and same animals, but it has one huge difference. The people in that world have special powers, not from birth, but they can activate their super abilities by speaking a magic word aloud.

That unique magic word, the spell, is written on their foreheads and is not visible in any reflection or photograph. The only way to discover it is to have someone else read it and then tell them what it is. Also, it changes about once per year. So you might know it one year but not the next.

So you would think that everyone would be happy with their superpowers, and each person would be able to perform miracles. However, that is not the case.

People are just as miserable as they are here because of jealousy, greed and stupidness. Although everyone has these incredible gifts, you need your particular word to use them. And you can only find that word if someone else tells you what it is.

So how do people find out what their particular word is?

Do parents reveal their child’s magical spell to them? Do children inform their parents of their magic words? Do married couples, partners or boyfriend and girlfriend whisper the other's incantations to each other? Unfortunately, it is not as simple as that.

The problem with these incredible gifts is that they also allow you to control other people. So if you mistakenly say to someone what their magic word is. They can then use it directly or accidentally against you. So if you tell your partner their word, they could then use their new power against you to control you, to make you do whatever they want you to do. They can make you act however they want you to behave. You are giving power to them.

So parents usually don’t tell children their magic words because if they do, they will stop obeying them. The children would be controlling their parents. The children would be out of control and empowered to do mischievous acts on their parents, friends, and everyone.

So it is perilous to reveal someone’s magic word. Even if you are in a loving marriage, each tells the other their word. Even then, it is dangerous.

At the start, everyone is happy. They use their powers together and for each other and their family. Then at some stage, one of them becomes jealous or falls out of love, and they will start to use their power against the other. They will begin to control and manipulate. Or they will start to use their gifts selfishly just for themselves. They will try to enrich themselves, give themselves opportunities, and exclude their partner.

So it’s a tricky thing to do; to tell someone their word. And even if you do find out your word. Say you trick someone into revealing it. That magic word only lasts for about a year. And then when that year is up, you don’t know your word anymore.

Then people look at you and see what you did. They know how you tricked your partner. They know how you control people around you. They see how you manipulated your family. They see how badly you acted. Then do you think anyone who knows you will want to tell you your new magic word? No people will have seen how you’ve acted. They know what bad things you have done. So they will not tell you your word. So you have to live the rest of your life without any superpowers.

It is a world that is better than ours but also worse. It’s better as we can all be gifted and worse because we can all be affected by powered people and end up as powerless pawns.

It is better because no one has to suffer hunger or disappointment as we have the power to change bad outcomes to good ones.

However, we only have that power if we can convince someone else to believe in us.

It is worse because we know we can have that power, but we cannot convince others to trust us to use it wisely and justly.

While in that world, I witnessed many fantastic and disturbing events. I hope to tell you about them one day.

However, I’m not sure I would describe that world as heaven or hell. Maybe you can decide when I tell you more about it.