The Universal War of the Multiverse

 

The Multiverse is a unique scientific concept that really makes the human race question its very existence. What is the Multiverse? Hypothetically speaking, the Multiverse is a group of smaller universes that exist within our own universe. On paper, that sounds great but in actuality, that would be a very terrible idea. That concept throws everything we know about the constraints of time and space and mixes it around in a scientific blender to create something foreign. The best versions of the multiverse in my opinion are what you see in the multiple recent movies that make up the Marvel Cinematic Universe  and DC properties such as both the television series and upcoming DC film The Flash.

Let's start off with a deep dive into Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness and how that film deals with the Multiverse itself and the trauma that comes with dealing with it. Wanda Maximoff, played in the film by Elisabeth Olsen, uses her powers to bring different universes to their metaphorical knees all because she is living in a universe where her sons Billy and Tommy are not with her. If you saw the Disney+ show Wandavision, then you would know that Billy and Tommy were created by Wanda as a manifestation of what Wanda believes is a family. She believed that after the events of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame when spoiler alert if you never saw them, Thanos murdered Wanda's love Vision, she had the right to not only manifest Vision back to life but also create her sons to have the perfect family. In my opinion, that is the danger of not only a concept like the Multiverse but also a more real-life concept like time travel that is being discussed. 

We believe that we as human beings are within the right to change the parameters of science to alter our life's history and change that which either never happened or previously happened in a way we did not like. Mark Ruffalo's Bruce Banner said it best in Avengers: Endgame, "If you go back into the past, that past becomes your future, and your former present becomes the past, which can't now be changed by your new future!" Think about that. While that quote references time travel, you can look at the multiverse the same way. Events in the multiverse have happened to alternate versions of you, but if the version of you in this universe messed with any alternate reality version of yourself, then you will be creating branch realities that have the danger of mixing with other realities and causing an incursion which like John Krasinski's Reed Richards said in Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, is another way of saying different universes can not co-exist and combine causing one universe to either destroy the other universe or the universes destroy each other costing trillions of lives in the process. 

The Multiverse is a concept that real-life scientists find difficulty in understanding because we are still trying to get a grasp over our universe and what potentially could destroy our universe. The idea that there are other universes within our own is a far-out concept that is better saved for the Christopher Nolans of the world to put into movies and other mediums of entertainment. Science is ever-evolving so there is still the possibility that an idea like the multiverse could actually become reality, but that is a very long time from now. It is better to focus on the science that we have right now and solve issues like global warming and climate change, issues that are more prevalent and have the risks of altering and possibly destroying our universe. There is almost no point in even discussing or thinking about the multiverse if climate change can destroy our universe. The multiverse suggests that there are smaller universes within our own so if climate change is currently threatening our universe, what is to say that it could not possibly threaten the very existence of the universes within our universe as well? Superhero films and other films within the science fiction genre are there to suspend belief and make us the viewer question the reality of what we are watching or listening to. That being said, we can not try to comprehend a new concept such as the multiverse without understanding the scientific ideas and concepts that are right in front of us. Understand those ideas and concepts and maybe ideas like the multiverse and time travel will be able to discuss and comprehend.