If you're the objective, logical thinking type who believes destiny is superstition and that the future is determined by today's events, you may very well be wrong. That's according to some new theories and findings by Oxford University.

According to scientists developing quantum theories, the past, present and future of the known universe is interconnected by what Einstein calls the "spooky action at a distance," where atomic-level particles interact with each other even when they're light years apart. If this is the case, then time may not be a linear progression of events at all.

If you think destiny is weird, you'll find other weirder stuff that quantum physicists believe in. For instance, most quantum physicists believe that every course of action by a body isn't limited to a choice of one ultimate option. "Parallel worlds" is a concept that postulates how all options are ultimately taken by several realities woven into one fabric which interact but never interfere with each other.

In such a scenario, only particles in the sub-atomic size range penetrate the fabric of time and space. Objects can be at different places at the same time because time, being the fourth dimension, is transgressed by these particles. The movement of these particles, according to the new study, actually allows the present to be affected by the past as well as the future in the smallest scales.

"Something that happens now is affected by something that happens in the future. It suggests that the universe has a destiny—a destiny that is out there and coming back to us from the future," says Jeff Tollaksen of George Mason University.

The proponents of the theory remain modest, pointing out that their claims are still speculative. Evidence is hard to get by at this point and the only proof currently available are minute measurements of subatomic particles interacting delicately with one another.