Alternate Reality

"In his book Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll imagines a fantastic, nonsensical world for ALice after she walks through a misty mirror. Physicist Stephen Hawking has speculated that a black hole, not a looking glass, might someday take us to many parrallel universes. Three years ago, The Matrix mixed a bit of science with Carroll's fiction to create Thomas Anderson, a contemporary Alice who discovers that the "real" world is in fact a computer-generated dream. Explore the idea of a parallel world through the eyes of a philosopher, an artist, a theologian, a psychologist or a scientist , or from any perspective you choose. How would you find this alterate reality? Who or what would take your there (by choice or accident)? Would you or could you be a different person in each world?"