In the many worlds theory, these different universes are related, they peel off from one another. Do you think it's possible, like in lots of the Hollywood depictions, for these universes to interact with one another? It's almost certainly impossible to travel from universe to universe. So if we can't interact with these other universes, can the idea ever be tested? Well, the many worlds' interpretation is super-duper testable in the sense that it is falsifiable.
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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