Parallel Universes? really comforting advice from Stephen Hawking

A man you can't ignore

Stephen Hawking's advice to a teenage girl in Sydney last week is a great comfort to anyone, Granny or Grandchild or teenage fan missing someone in their life.  Click on this link to hear what comforting words he uses

He was asked by a teenage girl “What do you think is the cosmological effect of Zayn [Malik] leaving One Direction and consequently breaking the hearts of millions of teenage girls across the world?”

He answered.."My advice to any heartbroken young girl is to pay attention to the the study of theoretical physics because, one day, there may be proof of multiple universes.  It would not be beyond the realms of possibility that somewhere outside of our own universe lies another, different universe and, in that universe, Zayn is still in One Direction."

We already accept parallel existences in what seems like real time, Grandpa in his study doing his thing, me blogging away, Butty the technodog stretching and snoozing, dreaming of hares.  That is already 4 and we are all in the same apparent place.  And where are all the others who lived or stayed or played here?  Getting on with their stuff, going to school, scootering around Singapore, playing rugby in Dubai, riding in Suffolk or in the case of the ancestors who are apparently dead and looking at us from photographs, where they might they be, they certainly aren't having coffee with us but something persuades us that they haven't really gone anywhere, they are just enjoying a parallel existence.  Thanks to Stephen Hawking for blessing that feeling with a probable reality found to be so through study of what actually is.