It turns out that there is one other universe—but of course, if there were one, there could be an infinite number! I dreamt about it last night—but it wasn\u2019t a dream—it was a segment: Everything went fifty times faster than in our world. Bibbi-badda-bu-bi-bam! Faces, people, events—vaguely oriental, I recall, but oh-so-fast. I realized that this was not your ordinary dream, but a glimpse of a realm where things didn\u2019t have mass to push around and so could go or happen much faster. <\/p>\n
We have such things in our universe called neutrinos. We don\u2019t know really what they are, but they move at speeds that are nearly the speed of light. Wow.<\/p>\n
And so, I was vouchsafed a glimpse\u2014I think that\u2019s the right word—a glimpse of other realms, as if our own is not the only one possible. I\u2019m tempted to dismiss this but I sort-of saw it, Might ordinary people have glimpsed other realms, too—and they were not hallucinations or delusions? But I\u2019m a psychiatrist—or at least I was. I am empowered, certified, to say what\u2019s real—versus (as the comedian Mel Brooks said on a record), what\u2019s just \u201cfoolin\u2019 around.\u201d And despite my diminished status as retired, I affirm that this dream was a glimpse of a possible reality! Science fiction? Sure! But then rockets to the moon were science-fiction a century ago!<\/p>\n
Seriously, what if—just sayin\u2019—what \u201cif\u201d there are indeed other realms where things move fifty times faster? \u201cImpossible!\u201d you say? Not if these things have much, much less \u201cmass.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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