We didn't have to explore the multiverse to experience Everything Everywhere All At Once dominating at the Oscars, but that doesn't mean we don't have questions. Could the multiverse be real?
If you live on this planet — and you’re of a certain age — there’s a decent chance you’ve seen the classicepisode “mirror, mirror,” in which Captain Kirk and several members of the enterprise find themselves in what appears to be a parallel universe.
In the Star Trek episode “Mirror, Mirror,” which first aired in 1967, Captain Kirk and crew must escape from a parallel universe before being discovered by their nefarious counterparts. Philosophers have pondered a multiplicity of worlds at least since the ancient Greeks. But it was only in the 20th century that astronomers and physicists began to talk about multiple universes in the terms we use today.
Some physicists welcomed this multiplicity of universes. In his lecture slides, Linde, one of eternal inflation’s greatest champions, has depicted these universes as little colored spheres, bubbling up and creating new bubbles as they evolve, like a frothy pot of boiling water. He is on record as saying he’d bet his life that the multiverse is real.
Through the 1980s and early ’90s, even with inflation slowly solidifying its status as the go-to model of the early universe, the idea of eternal inflation remained little more than a sideshow. Most physicists didn’t worry too much about the extra universes. Out of sight, out of mind, as it were. Albrecht, like many physicists, was never comfortable with the version of the multiverse suggested by eternal inflation or string theory. Still, he found himself drawn to another kind of multiverse — the one offered by the “many worlds” interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Some physicists find the Copenhagen interpretation unsatisfying. Why do measurements cause wave functions to collapse, and what qualifies as a measurement in the first place? Maybe, a few thinkers have suggested, the wave function doesn’t collapse. Ever. Instead, when we make a measurement, the universe divides, or branches, creating a brand-new universe for each possible outcome.
Carroll vehemently disagrees. He argues — channeling Galileo — that mathematics is the language we use to describe our physical theories; it is not some extra, added ingredient. “No one looks at F=ma and goes, ‘Oh, that’s mathematics, I don’t trust it, I’m going to stick to physics,’ ” Carroll says. For him, Newton’s equation is obviously physics, and so is Schrödinger’s. If Schrödinger’s equation predicts the existence of many worlds, so be it.
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