{"id":118571,"date":"2021-01-15T19:29:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T03:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/endless-versions-of-you-in-endless-parallel-universes-a-growing-number-of-physicists-embrace-the-idea"},"modified":"2021-01-15T19:29:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T03:29:42","slug":"endless-versions-of-you-in-endless-parallel-universes-a-growing-number-of-physicists-embrace-the-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/endless-versions-of-you-in-endless-parallel-universes-a-growing-number-of-physicists-embrace-the-idea","title":{"rendered":"Endless Versions of You in Endless Parallel Universes? A Growing Number of Physicists Embrace the Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/endless-versions-of-you-in-endless-parallel-universes-a-growing-number-of-physicists-embrace-the-idea.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2019<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Conventionally speaking, there is a single physicist named Sean Carroll at Caltech, busily puzzling over the nature of the quantum world. In the theoretical sense, though, he may be one of a multitude, each existing in its own world. And there\u2019s nothing unique about him: Every person, rock, and particle in the universe participates in an endlessly branching reality, Carroll argues, splitting into alternate versions whenever an event occurs that has multiple possible outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>He is well aware that this idea sounds like something from a science fiction movie (and it doesn\u2019t help that he was an advisor on <i>Avengers: Endgame<\/i>). But these days, a growing number of his colleagues take the idea of multiple worlds seriously. In his new book, <i>Something Deeply Hidden<\/i>, Carroll proposes that the \u201cMany Worlds Interpretation\u201d is not only a reasonable way to make sense of quantum mechanics, it is the <i>most<\/i> reasonable way to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Prominent supporters of the <a href=\"https:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/qm-manyworlds\/\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Many Worlds Interpretation<\/a> include physicists David Deutsch at Oxford University and Max Tegmark at MIT. If they are right, our intuitive sense of how reality works is profoundly wrong. Then again, some other researchers think that the Many Worlds way of looking at quantum mechanics is misguided, unproductive, or even downright absurd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2019 Conventionally speaking, there is a single physicist named Sean Carroll at Caltech, busily puzzling over the nature of the quantum world. In the theoretical sense, though, he may be one of a multitude, each existing in its own world. And there\u2019s nothing unique about him: Every person, rock, and particle in the universe [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}