{"id":97831,"date":"2019-10-25T13:02:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T20:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/this-physicist-believes-there-are-countless-parallel-universes"},"modified":"2019-10-25T13:02:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T20:02:37","slug":"this-physicist-believes-there-are-countless-parallel-universes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/this-physicist-believes-there-are-countless-parallel-universes","title":{"rendered":"This Physicist Believes There Are Countless Parallel Universes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-physicist-believes-there-are-countless-parallel-universes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the one aspect of reality we all take for granted: an object exists in the world regardless of whether you\u2019re looking at it.<\/p>\n<p>But theoretical and quantum physicists have been struggling for years with the possibly of a \u201cmany worlds\u201d interpretation of reality, which suggests that every time two things could happen, it splits into new parallel realities. Essentially, they think you\u2019re living in one branch of a complex multiverse \u2014 meaning that there are a near-infinite number of versions of you that could have made every conceivable alternate choice in your life.<\/p>\n<p>Physicist Sean Carroll from the California Institute of Technology deals with this problem in his new book \u201cSomething Deeply Hidden.\u201d In a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/weirdest-idea-quantum-physics-catching-there-may-be-endless-worlds-ncna1068706\">interview with <em>NBC<\/em><\/a>, Carroll makes his stance on the matter clear: he thinks the \u201cmany worlds\u201d hypothesis is a definite possibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the one aspect of reality we all take for granted: an object exists in the world regardless of whether you\u2019re looking at it. But theoretical and quantum physicists have been struggling for years with the possibly of a \u201cmany worlds\u201d interpretation of reality, which suggests that every time two things could happen, it splits [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97831","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=97831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}