Across the Multiverse

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Universe not big enough for you? There’s always the multiverse — many universes, scattered through time and space. In one world, you might drive a bus; in another, you might be a Formula One racer. If the idea sounds familiar, that could be because it has obsessed science-fiction and comic-book writers for decades. But artists and writers aren't the only ones fascinated by multiples — some physicists think the multiverse could be very real.

(Originally aired December 10, 2015)

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0:00.0	From PRX.
0:07.0	You're listening to Studio 360, and I'm Kurt Anderson.
0:10.6	You unlock this door with the key of imagination.
0:14.4	The Twilight Zone. How I loved it.
0:17.0	In 1963, they aired this episode called The Parallel.
0:21.7	An astronaut completes his mission and reunites with his family.
0:25.5	But it turns out that he landed on a mirror earth.
0:28.8	And the family he thinks is his own, they're just lookalikes.
0:33.0	Tell Mommy and Colonel Connaker who I am.
0:35.2	Oh, please.
0:36.8	Now, sweetheart, you say whatever's on your mind. Tellaker who I am. Oh, please. Now, sweetheart, you say whatever's on your mind.
0:40.3	Tell him who I am.
0:41.3	I don't know who you are.
0:43.3	Maggie, this is your daddy.
0:45.3	This is your daddy.
0:47.3	He's not my daddy.
0:50.3	I don't know who he is.
0:52.3	At the time, in 1963, the idea I don't know who he is.
1:04.8	At the time in 1963, the idea of a parallel universe was pretty new, but it would soon become a science fiction trope.
1:11.6	Like in this Star Trek episode where Captain Kirk and his squad accidentally beam into a parallel universe and encounter an enterprise crew that is brutal, fascist, and kind of scantily clad.
1:17.3	Another Enterprise, spark with a beard.
1:19.5	Another Captain Kirk, another Dr. McCoy, and...
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