Tinfoil-Hat Time

An astrophysicist at CalTech claims to have found possible evidence of a parallel universe ... see: USA Today Story. Supposition of one or more parallel universes, with different rules of existence, have kept science fiction writers busy for decades. But, if this new evidence bears fruit, all types of new fanciful suppositions should now come bursting forth into the tinfoil-hat kook-a-sphere. For instance, how about the thought that, in this parallel universe, people can self-identify as black even though they have no African DNA. Or perhaps, men with penises can claim to be females and demand to be given access to women's locker rooms. Or perhaps one religion in this parallel universe can crucify apostates, burn them alive, enslave them, or demand tribute payments from them ... yet still be called a " religion of peace."

There, there might even be beings who chop up their unborn claiming that they are only hunks of protoplasm. Or, perhaps the prevailing economic rule states that "to each according to his need ... and, from each, according to his ability." In this wonderful parallel universe, the gas that is the fundamental basis of all life, such as our CO2, can be government-labeled a "pollutant." And there the wife of a former supreme leader might feel she should be the next supreme leader only because she lacks the equivalent of a Y chromosome.

This alternate universe surlely has a lot of strange goings-on.