Parallel Worlds: Arts and Sciences

Official Poster of the movie (Photo: Wall Street Journal) Star Wars: The Force Awakens has made history, becoming the higuest grossing film of all time in the United States. Now the question is, How high can it go?, Will it hit 1 billion?. We will see in the following weeks. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is now the highest-grossing movie of all time in U.S. and Canadian theaters, Walt Disney Co. announced Wednesday. “The Force Awakens” surpassed the record formerly held by “Avatar” in just 20 days. Disney did not provide an exact figure on where the gross stands, only saying that “The Force Awakens” had overtaken the $760.5 million lifetime gross of “Avatar” sometime in the afternoon.   “Avatar” grossed $749.8 million in its initial run, collecting the gargantuan box office over more than eight months. It grossed an additional $10.7 million when a special edition version was released in theaters in August 2010. The question...

Nowadays, the advances in technology and science have been enormous. However, how can we know if we live in a parallel universe?: “Thanks to advances in technology and science, we know a lot more about our Universe today than we did a century ago. But what if we're only looking at part of the picture? There are several hypotheses in physics that suggest our Universe exists alongside multiple others, nearly identical to our own, that we can't detect. But according to theoretical physicist  and bestselling author Brian Greene from Columbia University, there are ways we would be able to tell whether our Universe is just one of many. And it has some pretty interesting implications for the notion of free will.  "There are certain versions of the multiverse that, should they be correct, might be most susceptible to confirmation," Greene told Tanya Lewis over at Live Science . First of all, we'd have to know what type of multiverse we're livi...