Do We Live In A Multiverse?

The Supermassive Podcast

Izzie Clarke

Astronomy, History, Science, Physics

4.6 • 556 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Izzie Clarke and Dr Becky Smethurst are rounding off 2023 with a biggie. Arguably the biggest of them all. This episode is ALL about the Multiverse. What is it? What does it mean? Does it even exist?

A big thank you to Andrew Pontzen from UCL and author of "Universe in a Box" for explaining the basics, Katie Mack from The Perimeter Institute for going from physicist to film reviewer, and to listener Wendy Entwistle who suggested the Supermassive team cover this topic.

The Supermassive Podcast is a Boffin Media production for the Royal Astronomical Society. The producers are Izzie Clarke and Richard Hollingham.

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0:00.0	This is the supermassive podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society with me, astrophysicist, Dr. Becky Clark.
0:08.1	We're married.
0:10.2	Married myself up to you.
0:12.2	With me, astrophysicist, Dr. Becky Smethers.
0:15.0	I'm going to have to do that again because I'm actually going to have to leave that in.
0:19.2	Hang on one minute.
0:20.2	Let me regroup.
0:21.7	Woo.
0:22.3	Okay.
0:24.4	And it's all about whether we live inside a simulation.
0:28.7	Everyone just really wants wormholes to exist.
0:31.5	Becky, do you think we're in a multiverse?
0:38.1	Hello and welcome to the supermassive podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society.
0:43.2	With me, science journalist, Izzy Clark and astrophysicist Dr. Becky Smethurst.
0:47.5	We are rounding off 2023 with a biggie.
0:51.6	Like arguably, the biggest of them all is right, this episode is all about
0:56.6	the multiverse. What is it? What does it mean? Does it even exist? And we are going to
1:04.3	attempt all of this in under an hour. So wish us luck. You could have regret that is. I know. I know.
1:09.7	If we need to blame anyone, we should blame listener Wendy M. Whistle from Canada, who suggested
1:14.6	that we cover this topic, albeit over a year ago.
1:18.2	We got there in the end.
1:19.3	We got there in the end.
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