Bubbles

There is a cosmological theory that posits multiple universes.  Stephen Hawking talks about it.  I read a couple of articles, that I didn't quite understand, explaining the idea.  However, I was left with an image of our universe as a bubble.  One bubble among a myriad of bubbles in a cosmic foam, like soap suds or the froth washed up on a beach.

I was reminded of the ancient aphorism: "...as it is above, so it is below."  (Or is it the other way around? No matter.)

Contemporary society, it seems to me, is much like the cosmic foam of universes.  We each live in a bubble, in a sea of bubbles.  The only people with us in our bubble see things as we see things.  We hear what we want to hear.  We believe what it suits us believe.   Only our bubble has got it right.  Only our bubble has the real 'facts.'  Ignore, slander, de-legitimize other bubbles.  Why even acknowledge them?  They got it wrong anyway.  What no one seems to realize is: sooner or later, bubbles burst.