Latest Multiverse Stories

[ Listen to the Podcast Series: How Stars Die And Black Holes Form ] John P. Millis, Ph.D. for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Scientists have debated the merits of the anthropic principle – the notion that the universe is somehow fine-tuned for life, or vice versa – and its variants for decades. The search to understand the nature and evolution of the universe is what plagues the fields of cosmology and astrophysics. Are we here because we happened upon a universe set up...

Ever since Austrian scientist Erwin Schrodinger put his unfortunate cat in a box, his fellow physicists have been using something called quantum theory to explain and understand the nature of waves and particles. But a new paper by physics professor Andreas Albrecht and graduate student Dan Phillips at the University of California, Davis, makes the case that these quantum fluctuations actually are responsible for the probability of all actions, with far-reaching implications for theories...

Jedidiah Becker for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Over the years, the British cosmologist and theoretical physicist extraordinaire Stephen Hawking has become as well known for his ability to translate mind-boggling research about the universe into language that’s accessible to the layman as he is for his groundbreaking theoretical work in gravitational singularities and black hole radiation. This month, Cambridge’s wheelchair-bound conqueror of the cosmos turns 71. In honor...

Researchers have resurrected the theory that other universes lie within "bubbles" of space and time, known as the "Multiverse" theory.Studies of the low-temperature glow left from the Big Bang suggest that these "bubble universes" have left marks on our own. The theory is popular in modern physics, but experimental tests have been hard to perform. A team of scientists used data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) to help reignite this theory....

SILVER SPRING, Md., May 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The iconic Morgan Freeman returns to SCIENCE on Wednesday, June 8, at 9:00 PM (ET/PT) for a second season of the breakthrough series, THROUGH THE WORMHOLE WITH MORGAN FREEMAN. Each of the ten world-premiere episodes poses an all-new question that spans space, science and the unknown - and peaks Freeman's insatiable curiosity. THROUGH THE WORMHOLE WITH MORGAN FREEMAN breaks down the walls of conventional television to explore the puzzles...

Brian Greene and other "string theorists" are exploring a possible scenario in which people, and the entire world in which we live, are actually a 3-D holographic projection of two-dimensional data that exists outside the accessible universe. The concept is hard to comprehend for some because of the complex math behind the theory. However, Greene says his goal is to build public excitement about science. "The idea is to...find the compelling narrative and stories that allow...

Alejandro Jenkins writes in Scientific American that life may exist -- in other universesIs there anybody out there? In Alejandro Jenkins' case, the question refers not to whether life exists elsewhere in the universe, but whether it exists in other universes outside of our own.While that might be a mind-blowing concept for the layperson to ponder, it's all in a day's work for Jenkins, a postdoctoral associate in theoretical high-energy physics at The Florida State University. In fact, his...

New cinema blockbuster, Avatar, leapt to the top of box office charts as soon as it came out "” a stunning 3D realization of an alien world. Our fascination with themes of escape to other fantastic places and the thrill of immersion in virtual environments also attracts millions to assume new identities in online virtual worlds.Now researchers at The University of Nottingham, SRI International in Silicon Valley California, two Canadian universities "” Simon Fraser and York "” and online...

Lee Smolin, author of the bestselling science book The Trouble with Physics and a founding member and research physicist at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada, writes exclusively in the June issue of Physics World explaining why theories of cosmology that suggest that our universe is just one of many - the so-called multiverse - and thus perpetuate the notion that time does not exist are flawed.Smolin explains how theories describing a myriad of possible...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Multiverse, a leading provider of virtual world development technology for Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs), educational and social worlds, and business collaboration environments, today announced a virtual world application built on Facebook Platform, a platform that enables companies and developers to build applications for the Facebook website. Multiverse Places is a revolutionary application that delivers a virtual world experience...