nested universe theme
There is a whole other universe somehow contained within a portion of our normal (or some other) universe. For example, there might be a universe contained in an atom, every atom, a box, or a marble.
8 total · 1 choice · 5 major · 2 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| tng4x05 | choice | An experiment gone wrong resulted in the creation of a collapsing warp bubble universe. |
| blackmirror6x01 | major | There was a quantum computer "quamputer" that created worlds within worlds somehow. |
| ds92x17 | major | A proto-universe was expanding into real universe. |
| futurama4x15 | major | Professor Farnsworth invented a universe in a small box. |
| movie: Akira (1988) | major | Neo Tokyo was devastated when a singularity formed in the middle of the city and quickly expanded into a new universe. |
| shortstory: The Man from the Atom (1926) | major | Kirby was astonished to discover that our universe was but an atom in another universe. |
| movie: Flight to Mars (1951) | minor | Dr. Lane speculated that we are all miniature universes filled with sentient corpuscles. |
| movie: Men in Black (1997) | minor | Revealed at film's end was that our universe exists inside a marble that is used as a plaything in another much bigger universe. |