'Branes' (membranes) are the extensions of 'strings' which are a sort of infinistemially fine threads left over from the era of the big bang. While the three spacial dimensions expanded into the apparently boundless local universe we know today, time (and the other dimensions beyond it) has a type of length, but has no measureable quantity of 'thickness'.

It appears to me that the many worlds bubble universe must relate to the infinite potentials of events. That is, if there are truly an infinite number of universes, there must be a universe which, at some point in time, absolutely replicates the one I am currently in UP TO THE MOMENT THAT I TYPE THIS PERIOD

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and not any further... It now spins, or expands its future in a bifurcation of realities.

and in another universe, a split second later, the (also simultaneous) thunderstorm lets loose a bolt which leaps through the keyboard on the Powerbook, and fries me to a crisp.

However, I'm proposing that consciousness only exists in one of these worlds at a time. If consciousness is a type of mutable standing wave in a higher dimension -- certainly, the mystics have proposed this for generations, and now the brane-theorists are providing the dimensions which vibrate! -- then that dimension would permeate those below it. However, just as a rope passing through a series of grates which are arranged in grids would vibrate more in a grid cell with an impulse in it, with only minor wavelets travelling beyond the grate into contiguous cells, consciousness may become focussed into one universe at a time. However, perhaps when the link is broken there, the wave energy is free to travel to another.

I'm not talking about What the Bleep here. It's just physics. And while consciousness may indeed vibrate on a different plane than, say, Radium, that doesn't make it more or less 'spiritual'. "Spiritual" is the awareness of and action taken toward the unity of all beings.

I'm also not taking about reincarnation, since consciousness is ALWAYS moving from one cell to another, as events in the local universe are affected in random fashion by the spontaneous generation and dispersal of matter.

So, my awareness may be able to slip between simultaneous cosmos with the focussed sympathetic vibration of will and intent creating the motive force, a pattern upon which like attracts like.

Perhaps our fates are determined absolutely by what we wish for, whether consciously, or not.

Certainly, whatever the mind concentrates on eventually will manifest, given the appropriate initial conditions.