The Magical Radio and Cosmic Frequencies

✍️ Shariq Ali
📚 Valueversity

Imagine you have a magical radio—one that can tune into all frequencies simultaneously. Right now, your favorite song is playing on one station, and you can hear it clearly. But isn’t it possible that at this very moment, thousands of other songs, stories, and news broadcasts are playing on different frequencies? You can’t hear them because your radio is tuned to just one specific station.

This same principle applies to our universe!

We exist on a “frequency” that may be part of the multiverse. Our universe has four fundamental dimensions: length, width, height, and time. This is the reality we perceive in our everyday lives. But what if, just like radio stations, there are countless other universes—existing simultaneously yet invisible to us?

Now, consider this fascinating idea. Imagine sitting in your room, looking at the objects around you—a chair, some books, perhaps your pet cat. But what if, on another “station,” in a parallel universe, an elephant were standing in that very same spot? Or maybe a whale was swimming through the deep waters that exist in your room in that reality? These things might be present, but because our reality is tuned only to this universe, we are unable to see or perceive them.

Physicists believe that, just like radio waves, countless parallel universes might exist all around us. Some of these universes could be almost identical to ours, with small differences—perhaps in another universe, your hair is blue! Others might be drastically different, where gravity is weaker, or time flows in an entirely unfamiliar way.

This raises an intriguing question: Can we ever “change the station” and peek into another universe?

For now, our “cosmic radio” is stuck on one channel. However, scientists, including Albert Einstein and modern physicist Michio Kaku, suggest that one day, we might discover a way to access these hidden universes. Perhaps in the future, we will develop a method to switch “stations” and witness another reality—just like tuning a radio to a different channel to hear a new program!

So, the next time you listen to your favorite song on the radio, remember—countless other melodies are playing around you, just slightly beyond your hearing range. Who knows? Maybe one day, you will be the one to change the “cosmic radio” station and discover an entirely new and astonishing universe!