Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist and philosopher at Johns Hopkins University. The concept of the multiverse in science has obviously been enjoying a bit of a renaissance lately, but it's an older idea, right? You know, just the idea of imagining other ways things could be or things could have been. It's funny how we never really think of these other selves as being total losers... they're always better.
The film Everything Everywhere All at Once won the 2023 Academy Award for Best Picture. In this episode from March 2023, just before the Oscars, Ian Sample spoke to the theoretical physicist and philosopher Sean Carroll about why we seem to be drawn to the idea of multiple worlds, and what the science says about how the multiverse might actually work. Help support our independent journalism at
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