"I'm just really disconcerted that there might be another version of me out there like that somewhere," he says. "Even in a stupid, stupid universe, where we have hot dogs for fingers, we get very good without being." It's kind of like Jose Luis Bojes' wonderful short story about the Library of Babel,. Every book that you could possibly imagine is there, because it's literally every sequence of letters and numbers and punctuation marks are there.
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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