Parallel world

Japanese: parallel world(英語表記)parallelworld
Parallel world

...Also, because the fourth-dimensional world is a collection of three-dimensional spaces, from a fourth-dimensional perspective, there are countless spaces similar to ours. These are called "parallel worlds," and F. Brown's "A Universe Gone Mad" (1949) is a dream story in which one can travel to any part of such a parallel world one wishes. Meanwhile, in modern science fiction, works that use the theory of parallel worlds to deal with humans who are driven into an absurd world, such as Dick's "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said" (1974), are popular. ...

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "parallel world" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…また四次元世界は,三次元空間の集合であるから,四次元的視点に立てば,われわれの世界に似た空間が無数に存在していることになる。これを〈パラレルワールドparallel world〉と呼び,ブラウンF.Brownの《発狂した宇宙》(1949)はそうした平行世界の望む部分へ旅行できる夢物語である。一方,現代SFではディックの《流れよ我が涙,と警官は言った》(1974)のように,不条理の世界に追い込まれた人間を扱う上で平行世界の理論を使ったものが流行している。…

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