[Stingy Jack]

Er ... I don't believe it. Sorry. Maybe I should look into it, but I'm not going to read something on an Internet forum and suddenly accept that its true. That's just my nature. BUT I will check it out with some reliable sources. You say within the past 10 years? Okay. This is quite interesting seeing as I tend to try to keep up with scientific advancements (particularly in the branches of biology and astronomy) and this is the first place I have heard that "microwave tests point to the actual existence of parallel universes". Don't get me wrong, I am quite familiar with the idea of parallel universes, particularly in relation to Einstein's work. But, I have yet to hear that we have been able to test the idea and have the tests point to an affirmation of the idea as truth.

This, in no way, affects my religious views.

Bwind22: It is very difficult to determine when a scientific theory should become "fact" or "law". Basically, the only method that science has to test hypotheses (before they become theories) is through observation under controlled environments. But, there is no saying that just because the tests do one thing every time we have observed them, does not mean that they always will do so. For example: I decide I want to test the law of gravity. I drop my pencil. It falls. I drop it again. It falls again. I drop it millions upon billions of times, and each time it falls. Of course, by this point I can pretty much be certain that whenever I let go of my pencil, it will fall. But that's just merely saying "it has done so every time before, therefore it will do it every time since." There is no way for us to really know that it will fall every time we let go. We just assume that it will. All we can do is say: "We have tested the idea this many times -- and every time we have tested it, the idea has shown to be true. So, this idea will become a theory." Then, it tested over and over and over and over again until it becomes a scientific "law". The only difference between hypothesis, theory, and law in science is the number of observed experiments that have shown the tested hypothesis to be true.