Has anyone here heard of M Theory? I'm far from an expert, but M Theory essentially argues that every moment of time, as well as every possibility, is a self-contained universe.
Look at it this way. Lets say you're tossing a baseball in your hand, letting it rise up and then catching it as it falls. The object is suspended in air at this moment, the ball a hair's breadth away from landing in your outstretched hand. This moment is a universe. From here however, we have several possibilities. For one, you may catch the ball. The moment of catching the ball is a universe unto itself. However you might also drop the ball. This possibility ALSO exists simultaneously as its own universe. Millions of other tiny variations would also create self-contained realities: where the ball lands on your hand, or if you drop it how and where it falls, where it rolls after it falls etc. Each one of these parallel possibilities would simultaneously exist; from any of these a number of other possibilities also arise.
Time would be more or less meaningless here, as every possibility for every event exists at once.
Sorry if that explanation was a bit confusing; I'm not really a physics expert so I'm explaining this off of half-understood documentaries (the Elegant Universe, to be specific). Anyway M Theory seems pretty Marathon-esque.
