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#323 - Science & Survival

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Multiverse and the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

Many non-physicists find the idea that there could be a functionally infinite number of copies of ourselves having increasingly different conversations right now in parallel realities astounding. The problem is that we don't understand the relevant physics, and so it's pure speculation. We've gone from a stage when we didn't know if there's a big bang at all to a stage where we can actually quantify what the universe was like at all stages back to the time when it was about a nanosecond old.

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