Multiverse

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  • Adams_HERO

    The Not-So-Fine Tuning of the Universe

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

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    Even Physicists Find the Multiverse Faintly Disturbing

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

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    Is It Time to Embrace Unverified Theories?

    In the world of modern physics, there is change afoot. Researchers are striving so hard to leap beyond the mostly settled science of the Standard Model that they’re daring to break from one of science’s crucial traditions. In pursuit of a definitive, unifying description of reality, some scientists are arguing that scientific theories may not […]

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    Where Did Time Come From, and Why Does It Seem to Flow?

    ASU Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Paul Davies has a lot on his mind—or perhaps more accurate to say in his mind. A physicist at Arizona State University, he does research on a wide range of topics, from the abstract fields of theoretical physics and cosmology to the […]

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    Splitting Image: The Alternate Realities of the Multiverse

    We tend to focus on major decisions as having momentous effects, but what if something as simple as a missed train could change the course of your life? And what if you follow two different paths to see which turned out better? That’s the premise of the 1998 film Sliding Doors, in which Gwyneth Paltrow stars […]

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    Universal Remoteness: What the Multiverse Means About Us

    Our Universe is vast and mostly empty. Even if many of the billions of planets we suspect are out there have life, most of the cosmos is uninhabitable, and those worlds are unreachable by any means we know. That’s just within our galaxy, which is one of about 100 billion in the part of the […]

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    An Overdose of Copernicus? Our Universe Might Yet Be Special

    The mediocre universe… Depending on how you look at it, that is either a term of derision or an interesting, mind-warping concept. Cosmologists who are enamored of the theory that there are many, or perhaps infinite, universes like to look at our cosmic home and call it average, boring, run of the mill, vanilla. They […]