{"id":149323,"date":"2022-11-02T09:22:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T14:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-cosmologist-who-claims-to-have-evidence-for-the-multiverse"},"modified":"2022-11-02T09:22:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T14:22:24","slug":"the-cosmologist-who-claims-to-have-evidence-for-the-multiverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-cosmologist-who-claims-to-have-evidence-for-the-multiverse","title":{"rendered":"The cosmologist who claims to have evidence for the multiverse"},"content":{"rendered":"

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HOW did our universe<\/a> begin? This is among the most profound questions of all, and you would be forgiven for thinking it is impossible to answer. But Laura Mersini-Houghton<\/a> says she has cracked it. A cosmologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she was born and raised under communist dictatorship in Albania, where her father was considered ideologically opposed to the regime and exiled. She later won a Fulbright scholarship to study in the US, forging a career in cosmology in which she has tackled the origins of the universe<\/a> \u2013 and made an extraordinary proposal.<\/p>\n

Mersini-Houghton\u2019s big idea is that the universe in its earliest moments can be understood as a quantum wave function<\/a> \u2013 a mathematical description of a haze of possibilities \u2013 that gave rise to many diverse universes as well as our own. She has also made predictions about how other universes would leave an imprint upon our own. Those ideas have been controversial, with some physicists arguing that her predictions are invalid. But Mersini-Houghton argues that they have been confirmed by observations of the radiation left over from the big bang, known as the cosmic microwave background<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HOW did our universe begin? This is among the most profound questions of all, and you would be forgiven for thinking it is impossible to answer. But Laura Mersini-Houghton says she has cracked it. A cosmologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she was born and raised under communist dictatorship in Albania, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,2229,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149323","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}