«The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy appears to be operating
in a parallel universe where urgency is an abstract concept with no bearing on the Brexit process,» PAC Chair Meg Hillier MP said.
Narratively, MGS for Game Boy (catchily subtitled Metal Gear: Ghost Babel in Japan) appears to exist
in some parallel universe where the Zanzibar Land incident of Metal Gear 2 never happened, meaning that this return to Outer Heaven takes place instead of MGS» Shadow Moses Island conflict.
The measurement of this is known as «value - added» which is when a computer attempts to compare how a teacher's students do on a standardized test to how those same students would have performed on the same test had they lived
in a parallel universe where they had an «average» teacher.
Our heroes and villains have ended up
in a parallel universe where Superman has gone all Kim Jong - un and established a global dictatorship where heroes are his evil henchmen.
Not exact matches
I do firmly believe that living
in a «
parallel universe»
where the pain of reality does not exist, can be immensley helpful.
Haven't you heard of the
parallel -
universe interpretation of quantum mechanics,
where many
universes simply self - destruct
in ignorance?
There was a time I feared there might exist some kind of
parallel universe where children actually enjoyed and willingly ate the vegetables adults put
in front of them.
Somewhere,
in some
parallel universe, there's a strong independent movement
where people are given a ral choice and societies are governed better.
Finally, we hear from a scientist who exists
in a sort of
parallel funding
universe,
where «the agencies... are not the kind that're - work and resubmit» mean a lot to.»
When talking about
parallel universes, I find it useful to distinguish between four different levels: Level I (other such regions far away
in space
where the apparent laws of physics are the same, but
where history played out differently because things started out differently), Level II (regions of space
where even the apparent laws of physics are different), Level III (
parallel worlds elsewhere
in the so - called Hilbert space
where quantum reality plays out), and Level IV (totally disconnected realities governed by different mathematical equations).
Steve: «The many worlds interpretation [asserts] that quantum measurement
in effect split the
universe into branches
where all the different outcomes occur
in parallel, so your
universe can be local if copies of you inhabit myriad unseen
parallel universes.
Another option involves a multiple -
universes model of cosmology
in which you travel back
in time to a different but closely
parallel universe to our own, as portrayed
in Michael Crichton's novel Timeline,
where the characters journey to another
universe's medieval Europe without worry of mucking up our own chronology.
Despite the fact that «Ant - Man» is rooted
in San Francisco, «Spider - Man: Homecoming» is an ode to the bridge - and - tunnel crowd, and «The Avengers» climaxes with a «Battle of New York» that looks curiously like Cleveland, all of these films still feel like glimpses into a
parallel universe made out of plastic — a bizarro alternate timeline (complete with its own 9/11)
where everyone has been reverse - engineered from their own action figures.
The characters of the series are currently stuck
in a future
where Earth has been destroyed, one some have theorized might be a
parallel universe.
From the production design, to the characters, Assassination feels like a living breathing
parallel universe where the characters talk
in voice over.
The mythic tale begins
in a kind of
parallel universe, like a Victorian - era, proto - industrial and very chilly New York,
where demons and flying horses are the norm, and thugs
in collusion with evil forces have extraordinary powers facilitated by colored stones!?
From mega-harems
in Dubai to illicit brothels
in Bucharest, from slave quarries
in India to child markets
in Haiti, he explores the underside of a world we scarcely recognize as our own and lays bare a
parallel universe where human beings are bought, sold, used, and discarded.
I was wondering to myself
in what planet or
parallel universe does someone live
where a console, never mind a Nintendo console, would cost that much.
In the dreamy imagery, a kind of
parallel universe is depicted,
where men play only minor roles.
Taken together, the works invite the viewer to get lost
in them — to experience what Alvarez describes as a place
where «notions of abstraction, painting,
parallel universes, and science fiction collide
in a cosmology all of its own.»
Neto's earth - toned crocheted structures are both animalistic and reminiscent of microscopic organisms
in form, a strange duality that causes the works to feel like indigenous products or abodes from a
parallel universe, one
where Western colonization never infected native culture, allowing the tribes to continue to develop culturally and technologically on their own.
The Intuitionist is set
in the curious world of elevator inspection, portrays a
universe parallel to our own,
where matters of morality, politics, and race reveal unexpected ironies.
If there are multiverses that are
in fact coupled — quantum bundles of
universes, that sort of thing (which is the basis of my story, it being a bit boring to write about a world
where the Lord of the Rings Universe really exists as a
parallel Universe, only you can't get there from here or ever prove it — then perhaps we might one day be able to demonstrate this, but
in the meantime the question is more science fiction or fantasy than something to believe or disbelieve
in very strongly, with the usual rational default: Lack of belief pending positive evidence!
So I have to conclude that you live
in a fantasy
parallel universe where CO2 forcing has mysteriously vanished.
, everything is possible beyond the twilight zone,
in the never more land, or rather
in a fancy
parallel universe where rivers of kool - aid flow.
Since it will doubtless be taken down, here is the story of what would have happened
in a
parallel universe,
where the SCC had sat nine judges on Tuesday.