Physics

If multiverses seem weird, it’s because we need to revamp our notions of time and space.

Life might have originated in droplets that behave surprisingly like living cells.

And sorry, Eleven, but psychic powers won’t transport you to another world.

László Babai has fixed the flaw in his retracted claim.

There’s more than one way to build a universe suitable for life.

It’s not the immensity or inscrutability, but that it reduces physical law to happenstance.

There’s more than one way to build a universe suitable for life.

Director and Leon Levy Professor, Institute for Advanced Study

Director of the National Science Foundation

The father of the quantum multiverse didn’t actually think of it as a multiverse.