As the video above explains, the laws of physics as we know them wouldn’t necessarily apply in other universes. Things are fundamental to us and everything we know, such as the pull of gravity or the binding strength of atoms, that simply would not exist in other universes.
“For each one of these basic constants, it’s as if the laws of physics randomly rolled the dice, and came up with our Universe,” says Cain. “Maybe in another universe, the force of gravity is repulsive, or green, or spawns unicorns.”
For a universe to form with the right combination of physical laws to allow for life to evolve, it’s a monkeys and typewriters situation – roll the dice an infinite number of times, and you’ll eventually get it right.
According to Cain, there are a bunch of explanations that could explain the weirdness of the Axis of Evil more reliably than it being the site of a great ‘meeting of the universes’, but we can’t throw that possibility out just yet. And if it really is the case, what’s happening to the poor aliens living in the universe that we’re so rudely overlapping?