My wife asks my son Ben, “What’s going on in your head all the time when you are so quiet?”
My son says; “It’s pretty much Star Wars all the time, Mom!”
I’m watching a TV show about cosmology, including the possibility of multiple universes.
My son has sneaked to the couch across the room and pipes up;
“Dad, does that mean that there REALLY could be a Star Wars universe?” he asks.
I ask, “What did you just hear about the possibility of multiple universes?”
“That there could be more than one universe,” he says.
“So…..?”
“Cool!” he says. “There really COULD be a Star Wars universe!” I immediately chased Ben off to bed.
Now and again I hear Ben say, “That defies the laws of physics, except in a Star Wars or other universe!”
His middle name isn't "Kenobi", is it?
Nah, "Lee" after my wife's grandfather on her mom's side. But, he wields a wicked light saber! Ben 2,322; Daddy-0. Little boy rules are rough on daddies!
"The Number of the Beast", one of Robert Heinlein's later novels, featured a time machine, in addition to traveling foward and backward in time, also had the ability to travel "sideways" to alternate time lines. The time machine also had the ability to travel "vertically" in time, which put the travelers in alternate realities that were based on the imaginary worlds created by great fiction writers.
Heinlein called the concept "multi-theistic pan-dimensional solipsism".
Niklaus, now we call it "string theory!"