Multiverse

Is our universe a bubble in the multiverse?

July 21, 2014

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Screenshot from a video of Matthew Johnson explaining the multiverse hypothesis (credit: Perimeter Institute)

Researchers at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics are working to bring the multiverse hypothesis — we are living in one universe of many — into the realm of testable science.

Perimeter Associate Faculty member Matthew Johnson and his team are looking for clues for the existence of multiverses (a.ka. parallel universes) in the cosmic microwave background data, assumed to be left over from the Big Bang./.../