Sorry I didn't mean to sound rude.
'adopt an idea' sounds like real world anti science but it might work for design, engineering and material science.

Hawking is buying into the idea of constant branching of reality.
Again this idea seems to defy the conservation of energy.

I can not picture this. The limit of my understanding of the strange has met the 'stranger than I can imagine'.

Hawking has been wrong before, but only once.



Regarding a shot in the dark:
I can not explain what a strange experience is for anyone else.
If a person has a truly strange experience they usually don't have a means to remember it or define it next to anything they are already familiar.