Stepping Through...

She will never quite be the same as when she first entered the looking glass, the Alice that emerges is somehow forever changed for having made the journey. Carroll's looking glass is the perfect analogy for inter-universal travel. Moreover, the looking glass universe represents a world which lies just outside of the multiverse in which Alice's home world resides. That is to say that the initial conditions (therefore all physical laws) are different from those of Alice's world. Carroll may not have used the same culturally dependent terms and values to describe this concept as scientists would today, but when we stare at these two images, how can any other conclusion be drawn. Carroll was being as plain and clear as he could be, and John Tenniel's brilliant and masterful representations make it all the more profound! I hope that you will take a moment to join me, gaze at these images, recall the wonder of childhood, and realize that this life is so much more magical than anyone ever thought.