{"id":174279,"date":"2023-10-16T06:22:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T11:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/there-might-be-just-one-multiverse"},"modified":"2023-10-16T06:22:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T11:22:57","slug":"there-might-be-just-one-multiverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/there-might-be-just-one-multiverse","title":{"rendered":"There might be just one multiverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/there-might-be-just-one-multiverse.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The idea of the multiverse has at least two conceptually distinct sources in theoretical physics: quantum mechanics and cosmology. The many worlds of quantum mechanics are very different in terms of their nature and origin from cosmology\u2019s multiverse. However, physicists have reason to believe that ultimately, these two distinct multiverses are in fact one and the same, writes David Wallace.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In big budget science-fiction and fantasy franchises, the \u201cmultiverse\u201d is a collection of universes \u2013 some quite like our own, some differing from ours only in the way some historical event played out or some person\u2019s life unfolded, some vastly different and filled with strange wonders. But in the drier and more disciplined world of modern physics, \u201cmultiverse\u201d means\u2026 well, pretty much the same, only without the prospect of easily moving from one universe to the next. The multiverse of physics is revealed more subtly, by hints hidden in our observations and our theories.<\/p>\n<p>Or rather: the multiverses of physics <em>are <\/em>revealed more subtly. For remarkably, physics gives us not one but three different multiverses, and reasons to accept all three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of the multiverse has at least two conceptually distinct sources in theoretical physics: quantum mechanics and cosmology. The many worlds of quantum mechanics are very different in terms of their nature and origin from cosmology\u2019s multiverse. However, physicists have reason to believe that ultimately, these two distinct multiverses are in fact one and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174279","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}