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[edit] Parallel universe (fiction)

Did a major overhaul of this, and I'm hoping to get some feedback--Saswann 01:30, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

You've got a lot of good material here. Main issues I'd raise is with the current organisation, and emphasis. I think there needs to be a general sorting out of what goes where, at the moment the way the various pages are arranged is not exactly intuitive.

• Parallel dimension / Parallel dimensions, (double) redirect to Parallel universe
• Parallel universe silly redirect to + (fiction) in the title.
• Parallel Universe, drum and base album
• Parallel universes -> Multiverse
• Parallel world / Parallel worlds, (double) redirect to Parallel universe
• Alternate dimension -> Multiverse
• Alternate dimensions
• Alternate reality, DAB, links Alternate Reality and Parallel universe.
• Alternate Reality, game.

• Parallel universe (fiction), (your rewrite) books and stuff.
• Multiverse, currently an article on physics theories, which is being religiously defended in its current state by User:DV8 2XL, despite the fact scifi popularised the idea (and term).
• Many-worlds interpretation, the right place for quantum mechanics.

I went through these redirects and whatnot and funneled them all to Parallel universe which I set up to be a disambig page that directs to the alblum, the game, Parallel universe (fiction) and multiverse--Saswann 02:22, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I think that was probably the right thing to do, will just need to watch in-linking to make sure it's going to the right place.

Onto the actual article, it seems wrong to me to *start* with the MWI, it's an important, but late, influence on this kinda idea. Certainly the Narnia flavour of other-worlds have nothing to do with physics and everything to do with old ideas of fairy realms and such like.

Fact is it became increasingly difficult to convincingly tell a tall tale along the lines of The Lost World as the 19th and 20th centuries progressed, and the idea was totally killed by artificial satellites. The modern traveller's tale can't rely on forgotten corners of the globe for extraordinary settings, it's either space, past, future (reminds me, got a link to post apocalyptic wotsits?), or dimension games.

Finally, I think there needs to be more of an indication of how thouroughly the concept has entered mainstream, globally. You can't watch kids cartoons anywhere without running into other dimensions all over the place. --zippedmartin 07:52, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

I reordered the lead section. I'm thinking how best to restructure the main body. Saswann 02:47, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Lead looks much better to me like that, the extra bit about myth/religion is nice too. I've got a few good books that might be useful lying around, I'll have a look through them later and see they've got anything good to add to the main article. --zippedmartin 05:50, 27 February 2006 (UTC)