literal exploration

a parallel world is so open to interpretation that only hypothetical parameters can be constructed. btw i think i did this wrong.

a parallel world is:

a secondary (at least +1) dimension or world or perspective. given that there is a primary to have some type of relationship to.

An exact day for day, atom for atom, thought for thought repeat of some kind of timeline, except PERHAPS quadrillions of years ago/away and bazillions of light years this way/ or that way. as an example: a solar system with the same exact mutations in the evolutionary process, same exact events with the same exact people named, raised, and killed in the same exact manner, with the same exact number of hairs on their head, whilst they are thinking of the same exact thoughts at the same exact time, as it was done in the primary world. of course this might be a laughable poke at the idea of the infinite and endless expanse of time and space, yet those words by definition lend itself to that. someone named Jason Lee in a different time and place, is a bfa4 graphic designer in Norman and Tom's class. ironically, writing a paper about parallel worlds, thinking that he himself is the first and primary Jason Lee, but he will never know this and he probably is not.

A video game (technology and computers to be more general) can be argued to be a parallel world. The movements and actions commanded by an interactee are simultaneously being executed by this secondary world's environment and inhabitants. this idea conveniently puts the parallel world on the level of the television, xbox and internet. a world within another world, yet still being parallel. this relationship can only be represented by concentric circles or the layers of a jawbreaker. this interpretation may not mean anything to the class, but this different stance on the idea of parallelism juxtaposed with the idea of the parallel world is interesting to me.

Thought and reality, or imagination and actuality, or the conscious and the unconscious, or organic actions and inorganic actions. from the first person perspective of a sentient being. interacting and moving through time and space, while at the same time having unconscious brain, heart, kidney, stomach, nerve, skeletal, mutagen, microbiological, subatomic activity. perhaps lending itself to the idea that, all secondary parallel worlds line up their own respective and distinctive traits to create the primary as a whole. like some kind of epic heavenly glow of a planetary eclipse. or a human body. all are different in some way but share one thing.

Are parallel worlds still considered parallel, if they are only parallel for a fraction of a second? Time is a factor that must be considered when dealing with anything in the first to 27th dimension. Like a pack high speed chameleons running through an endless wallpaper store. dynamically evolving and devolving relationships between worlds and dimensions, through the stretch of time. Do worlds manifest its parallelism once it comes in contact with another world and copy one anothers actions events and entities? perhaps this can be the third answer to the war between fate and choice.

Since, in geometry, parallel lines never intersect; is it safe to say that, by definition, there is no type of direct or indirect interaction between two worlds? simply a sharing of an x or y axis (definitely not both, that would be a congruent world [and with that what does a congruent world constitute? {and just to be cynically curious, what are the parameters of a perpendicular world?}]) Thinking about parallel worlds from a mathematical perspective, leave them to be interpreted in the 3rd dimension (x,y,z) given that two parallel entities cannot be points which only leave lines, planes, and full objects. entities parallel in the 3rd dimension must share 2 out of the 3 axis's. this opens another dimension of interpretation.


Parallel worlds cannot be simply put.

Jason Lee
BFA4 graphic design