My night musings often drift to deep truths of existence: thoughts on cosmos, consciousness, meaning (if any). I can't help it. That's why I'm entranced by the idea of a multiverse, the theory that ...

Do we live in a multiverse? Daydreamers and science-fiction authors have pondered parallel universes for as long as scientists have described our own. Our universe contains everything we know — from ...

Over the last few years, the box office has been dominated by films like "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" that explore ideas of parallel universes, quantum worlds and alternate lives. There's ...

Anyone can come up with a theory, which in common parlance, simply means "an idea for how something works." But in order to be a scientific theory, you have to do a lot more. In particular, any new ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Some theories in physics give rise to the idea of multiple universes, where nearly identical ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American In 1990 I wrote a bit of fluff for Scientific ...

Scientists are working to bring the multiverse hypothesis, which to some sounds like a fanciful tale, firmly into the realm of testable science. Never mind the Big Bang; in the beginning was the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. The Universe is all there ever was, all there is, and all there will ...

In his latest book Nobel Prize winner Steven Weinberg explores how science made the modern world, and where it might take us from here From Quanta Magazine (find original story here). If you're ...

Just weeks after the turn of the 17th century, Giordano Bruno was burned alive by the Roman Inquisition for, among other things, claiming the existence of a plurality of worlds and their eternity. The ...

Robert Lawrence Kuhn is the creator, writer and host of "Closer to Truth," a public television series and online resource that features the world's leading thinkers exploring humanity's deepest ...