{"id":98273,"date":"2019-11-08T03:29:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T11:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/meet-the-scientist-who-thinks-we-all-exist-in-multiple-universes"},"modified":"2019-11-08T03:29:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T11:29:58","slug":"meet-the-scientist-who-thinks-we-all-exist-in-multiple-universes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/meet-the-scientist-who-thinks-we-all-exist-in-multiple-universes","title":{"rendered":"Meet the scientist who thinks we all exist in multiple universes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Have you ever laid wide-awake in the late hours of the night wondering what your life would look like if you took that other job, moved countries, or ended up with someone else? While there\u2019s no definite answer \u2014 and probably never will be \u2014 the idea that there\u2019s multiple versions of you, living in various universes, isn\u2019t as make-believe as you might think.<\/p>\n

According to Sean Carroll, a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology<\/a> and author of Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime<\/i><\/a>, the increasingly popular theory of Many Worlds Interpretation<\/a> suggests every fundamental event has multiple possible outcomes and splits the world into alternate realities.<\/p>\n

This mind-bending idea originally came from Hugh Everett, a graduate student who wrote just one paper in the 1950s. Everett\u2019s theory describes the universe as a \u201cchanging set of numbers, known as the wave function, that evolves according to a single equation.\u201d According to Many Worlds, the universe continually splits into new branches, to produce multiple versions of ourselves. Carroll argues that, so far, this interpretation is the simplest possible explanation of quantum mechanics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever laid wide-awake in the late hours of the night wondering what your life would look like if you took that other job, moved countries, or ended up with someone else? While there\u2019s no definite answer \u2014 and probably never will be \u2014 the idea that there\u2019s multiple versions of you, living in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,41,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98273","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}