[snas (Stuart)]

If we accept the theory of multiple universes in which we all lead varying different lives; in this universe I am a vet, in the universe to my right I am a truck driver, in the one on my left I am so wealthy that I can just spend all of my time surfing the best surf breaks woo hoo, sounds great to me); my question is, how do I get to exist in these other universes? After all, if I can have different jobs and standards of living in other universes, what's to say that my father (at least, the man who is my father in this universe) never met my mother (in the universe to my left) and therefore married someone else and therefore I would not exist in that particular universe. Surely when (some) people write about us living all of these different lives in different universes, they haven't considered that even by changing something like who my father married they have then changed who comes along in the next generation. Of course, if something in that generation was different one generation ago, surely things may have been different on the "earth" of that universe such that life never arose or that life did arise but never resulted in us being there.

Of course, the big question is, how do I find my to the universe to my left (the one where I surf all the best breaks? A free quiver of boards and a lifetime supply of surfboard wax to the person who can get me there. Hmm, will the beaches be populated by lovely young ladies, the reefs covered in latex and the sun never burn? (come on now, this is a VERY serious question)

Stuart