Interdimensional Travel and Ringtone Maintenance

I just had a dream that may have opened my eyes to the mundane side of a Multiverse theory.

In this dream, there was a wonderful party going on at my mother’s house. Everyone was there, family, old friends, heck, even a few YouTube personalities.

Oh yeah, and apparently someone had invented a machine to travel between parallel worlds.

At this point, I would like to share what growing up watching sci-fi shows has done to my expectations of interdimensional travel. Whenever this subject is breached, the implication is that different dimensions are always completely different and sometimes terrible. Things like the world being ruled by Space Nazis, or the film Pixels got a sequel. You know, your usual awful stuff. But sometimes, there are good situations, like poverty and disease are a thing of the past or dogs can talk. The point is that there are usually drastic and immediately noticeable differences.

On a whim, I elected to make use of the machine. After doing so, I decided to go back to the party. Everything and everyone was still there. Nothing was different. No bad, but no good either. Still no flying cars!

I discussed it with a few folks at the party. It was at that point that I think I figured out what was different. To prove a point about the similarities of the two worlds, I pulled out my phone and proceeded to call Elaine (my wife), thereby showing that with the infinite amount of possibilities, I had managed to find a world that was so similar that my speed dials still worked.

That’s when I found the difference:
The sound of the outgoing ring was slightly different.

So there you have it. Interdimensional Travel; equal possibilites of finding a world where bug people rule the Earth by riding atop dinosaur steeds and a world where red m&ms are more pink than red.