Multiverse Theory
In this week’s episode of “Flash Forward” (ABC), we learn about Dyson Frost’s “Garden of Forking Paths,” an enormous map sketched in chalk detailing multiple forks in his travels through time. Frost is in search of alternate futures, mostly a future where he lives past a particular date, but also a future where the whole […]
Late last year I started watching the new ABC series “Flash Forward” on Hulu. It began with a deep mystery: everyone on the entire planet experienced a coma-like black out for about two minutes. During that time, most experienced a “dream” that could only be understood as being their future, six months out. One scientist, […]
The Bear has just finished reading Alex Vilenkin’s Many Worlds In One (Hill and Wang, 2006). The book is subtitled “The Search for Other Universes” and describes Vilenkin’s theory of infinitely many island universes emerging through a process of quantum tunneling out of nothing, in a sea of finite unbounded inflationary spacetime which has no […]
