• Question: If there was a parallel universe and you could change something what would it be?

    Asked by anon-197507 to Sonal, Rosanna, Matthew, Marleen, Dan, Atreya on 8 Mar 2019.
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      Dan Porter answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      Great question! It would be interesting to have a universe where gravity can be positive or negative! That way we could have anit-gravity cars and all sorts of cool stuff.

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      Matthew Selwood answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      That is a really interesting question… I’ve been thinking about it all day, and there are so many possibilities! I think, if there was a parallel universe, the think I would want to change was them knowing about the parallel universe – that way I could go there when I want some piece and quiet when I want to be productive!

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      Marleen Wilde answered on 11 Mar 2019:

      Hmm, that’s a tricky one. I would change many things I guess, but if I have to stick to only one? I would make all cancer types the same, in the sense that they originate from the same mutations or cause outside the body, and therefore can be treated all in the same way. At the moment there are hundreds of different types of cancer, not only in different organs, but also different to each other in the same organ, which makes successful treatment and finding a cure so difficult. If they were all the same, it would be much easier to treat cancer. You might wonder why I wouldn’t want to get rid of all the cancer/ diseases?
      Well, learning from nature, it can have major influences (many of them negative) on a species, when changing factors in their environment/ habitat. Thinking of no diseases at all, that means everyone gets very old and the world even more overpopulated than it is now. That means there will be major issues with food supply and waste management, that finally could lead to extinct not only humankind.
      And besides all of the above, thousands of cancer scientists and staff in hospitals would loose their jobs, which is of course only a minor problem if we humans go extinct anyway.

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