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{{g}}What might have been — and might yet be — but wasn’t, and won’t be.  
{{def|Parallel universe|/ˈparəlɛl ˈjuːnɪvəːs/|n|}}What might have been — and might yet be — but wasn’t, and won’t be. The sort of beard you grow when [[Occam’s razor]] is blunt. Your last, desperate hope — when even your dearest {{tag|philosophy}} has failed you — of spiritual or intellectual redemption.  


The sort of beard you grow when [[Occam’s razor]] is blunt.
If you resort to hypothesising a [[parallel universe]] — be it one where unobserved but necessary [[space-time]] dimensions manifest themselves, one whence your mortal soul will go when from its earthly coil it shuffles, or one where [[Brexit means Brexit|leaving the most successful free-trade organisation in the history of the world will improve your prospects of overseas trade]] — whatever argument you are having at the time, you have surely lost.
 
Your last desperate hope, when even your dearest {{tag|philosophy}} has failed you, of spiritual or intellectual redemption.
 
If you resort to hypothesising a [[parallel universe]] — be it one where unobserved but necessary space-time dimensions manifest themselves, one whence your mortal soul will go when from its earthly coil it shuffles, or one where [[Brexit means Brexit|leaving the most successful free-trade organisation in the history of the world will improve your prospects of overseas trade]] — whatever argument you are having at the time, you have surely lost.


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Parallel universe /ˈparəlɛl ˈjuːnɪvəːs/ (n.)
What might have been — and might yet be — but wasn’t, and won’t be. The sort of beard you grow when Occam’s razor is blunt. Your last, desperate hope — when even your dearest philosophy has failed you — of spiritual or intellectual redemption.

If you resort to hypothesising a parallel universe — be it one where unobserved but necessary space-time dimensions manifest themselves, one whence your mortal soul will go when from its earthly coil it shuffles, or one where leaving the most successful free-trade organisation in the history of the world will improve your prospects of overseas trade — whatever argument you are having at the time, you have surely lost.

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