Dark Matter

Warning: SPOILERS ahead for Dark Matter episode 3.

The series opens with Jason Dessen being kidnapped after an evening celebrating his friend’s accomplishments.

While the Box itself doesn’t make interdimensional travel happen, the environment it provides facilitates it.

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As Jason explains, “it would cause everything to decohere.”

This allows humans attempting to access multiple realities to do so without observing their current state of being.

Of course, this is just the first element ofDark Matter’s interdimensional travel.

Joel Edgerton as Jason Dessen in Dark Matter with the imagery from the theme song as the background

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It’s also important that outsiders aren’t capable of perceiving the individual in question.

From there, they can simply envision the realities and outcomes they want to exist.

Then they’ll be able to travel to the reality they choose, just as Jason2 does.

A custom image of a blonde Jennifer Connelly as Daniela and Amanda Brugel smiling as Blair Caplan in Dark Matter

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Because no one can observe the cat, it could theoretically be thought of as both alive and dead.

This is how he finds the reality where he and Daniela wind up married with a child.

Most multiverse stories use the extraordinary to explain the characters' ability to access more than one universe.

Ryan Holder (Jimmi Simpson) from another reality looking scared in Dark Matter season 1 episode 3

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Jason Dessen standing in front of the box containing the alternate realities in Dark Matter (2024)

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Dark Matter