Questions tagged [parallel-universe]
For questions about a parallel universe or alternative reality, a hypothetical self-contained separate reality coexisting with one's own. A specific group of parallel universes is called a "multiverse", although this term can also be used to describe the possible parallel universes that constitute reality.
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Movie with two parallel universes, each of which is a television show in the other's universe
I didn't expect this to be so difficult to find since it was relatively recent, but my Google searches are turning up nothing but listicles.
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Most likely made sometime between 2005 and 2015
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Where is Marty from the alternate timeline Where George McFly is an author that Marty makes at the end of Part 1?
Think about it: Marty goes back to 1955 in Part 1 and helps his parents fall in love again.
Well, when Marty went back to 1985 he created an alternate timeline where his parents are rich. There are ...
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A novel about a group of scientists who think they've invented a teleporter
I read this a few years ago, around 2015/16 I think and I cannot for the life of me remember the title of it and googling isn't helping at all.
It was about a group of scientists who are working on ...
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Was the "Reverse Universe" ever returned to?
In the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode "The Counter-Clock Incident", the Enterprise discovers and travels to a parallel dimension in which time flows in reverse. Supernovas represent ...
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Are superbeings a reality in 2022's "The Batman" universe?
Basically what it says on the tin.
The (currently) new film, The Batman offers a modern take on the caped crusader, with Robert Pattinson playing a much younger, still learning hero. He has not even ...
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2018-2019 short Netflix series about a world that splits into two identical halves
Trying to remember a short Netflix series about a world that experiences a catastrophic event where it splits into two separate but identical halves. Each half is a whole image of the original world, ...
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Story about imposter son from another dimension visiting scientist father and mother; needing women to save his species
I'm trying to find the original source story from which an episode of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater was adapted. The episode is entitled "The Intruder," written by James Agate, Jr., and was ...
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Old SF story, similar to "Sliders", involving a group who've been sliding through alternate Earths, and have gotten lost
Spoilers, BTW. The story concerns a group who have been sliding through alternate Earths, and are lost. They're terrified of being identified as some Earths are aware of sliders and don't approve. ...
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In the comics is Spider-Man special in that there is always a different version of him across realities?
I'm only asking about the comics, but I distinctly remember from watching Spider-Man: The Animated Series growing up, that Spider-Man was somehow special in that there were alternate versions ...
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Story about a hungry alien who eats the universe and accidentally creates multiple universes when he poops
Time: Early 2000's or maybe earlier
Genre: Sci-fi/Comedy/Dark
Narrative work: A novelette or a story book
Language: Might be in another language than English. Possibly French
Plot: There is a ...
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TV Series about boy who Travels to Parallel World [duplicate]
School trip goes to mountains to watch full solar eclipse. Group of friends, 2 boys and a girl goes to mountains at night.
Boys want to play prank on girl and hang steel cable across rock face.
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Sci-Fi short story about a scientist who travels uncontrollably through alternate dimensions
In 1984-85 I read a short sci-fi story in a book of stories about a scientist who created a device that sends him to an alternate dimension. At first there is very little difference from our own but, ...
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Is the study of alternate universes important to Starfleet?
During the TNG/DS9 and VOY time, was the study of alternate universes important to Starfleet?
Consider the TNG episode Parallels. Worf comes across an anomaly that sends him to different parallel ...
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Book with an alternate dimension that makes people go insane; scientists find girl with a mind flexible enough to endure it for short times [duplicate]
This is a book I read when I was growing up, so 80's timeframe, although I think it was older then.
A group of scientists finds a way to access another dimension. It's described (I think) like ...
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In Stross' Merchant Princes series, how does ARMBAND know where to go?
In Stross's Merchant Princes series, the US Government uses bits of a world-walker's brain in vitro to power ARMBAND, which lets their planes cross to Gruinmarkt (World 1).
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