A journey through 55 alternative realities parallel worlds & possible futures It's lucky you're here But for a series of incredible coincidences & roads not taken your life could be very different The same goes for reality We live in just one of many possible worlds In others dinosaurs still rule the Earth the Russians got to the Moon first time flows backwards & everyone is vegetarian And that's just for starters What if the laws of physics were different? If we really did live in a multiverse? If robots became smarter than us? If humans were wiped off the face of the planet? Join New Scientist on a thrilling journey through these & dozens of other incredible but perfectly possible alternative realities thought experiments & counterfactual histories
- each shining a surprising & unexpected spotlight on life as we know it