So you know multiverse and the parallel universe since you are so intelligent and knowledgeable!
I am sure though you may not have heard about UNIVERSE 25!
If you have then you are indeed very knowledgeable but for those who have not heard of this; here you are!
Now this is not a fictional universe somewhere in a different time and space!
It was an artificial universe created for rats! But what it showed will shock you to the core and then some!
If you were worried about rat race then this is actually a nightmare!
The Universe 25 experiment (1968–1973) was a rodent study by John Calhoun at the NIMH to test the effects of overcrowding in a “utopian” environment.
The aim was to provide unlimited food, water, and space!
So you set up a universe in which everything is plenty! No fight for food! No need to work and all you need to do is LIVE!
You would think if the situation is so good then it would have been paradise!
Well; it was HELL!
The setting was a 10-square-foot, climate-controlled enclosure designed for 3,000+ mice, with ample food and nesting, removing survival pressures.
Initially everything was hunky dory! Like the honeymoon phase of marriage! It is the next phase which is the most important!
The rats had fun; reproduced and seemed happy!
Then you had the collapse or the “Behavioral Sink”!
As the population reached 600, overcrowding disrupted social structures.
Males became hyper-aggressive or completely passive, while females stopped nurturing young!
Then you had a subset of mice which became the “The Beautiful Ones”!
A subset of mice withdrew from society, ignoring mating and fighting to focus solely on sleeping, eating, and grooming, earning the name “beautiful ones”!
All day was spent only in making themselves more “BEAUTIFUL” and no time spent on work or any other social interaction!
By day 600, reproduction ceased. The last mouse died around day 920, resulting in total extinction despite abundant resources!
The irony was that there was no RAT RACE!
Calhoun concluded that when space is lost and social roles break down, populations experience a “death of the spirit” followed by physical extinction.
While popular in the 1970s as a warning of urban overcrowding, modern historians, such as Edmund Ramsden, suggest the crisis was caused by excessive social interaction, not just population density.
It highlighted that material abundance without purpose can lead to societal decay!
It has been replicated in many places and sections even in humans where the resources are plenty and you do not have to worry about tomorrow!
So next time you get groggy getting up in the morning since you have to either read or work; think about UNIVERSE 25 and well; SNAP OUT OF IT!
And listen to some nice music courtesy the legend Gulshan Kumar!
And sleep in this universe 1!
Shubh ratri…
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