Science and Creativity: The Multiverse Part I
Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen
PRX
4.6 • 675 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2018
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Mark Oliver Everett (AKA "E") is best known as the singer, songwriter, and driving force behind the indie rock band Eels. A lesser-known biographical detail about Mark: his father, Hugh Everett III, proposed the "many worlds" interpretation of quantum mechanics. Everett's work raised the possibility that multiple realities could exist simultaneously, with multiple versions of us in them. It was an out-there idea when Everett first proposed it in 1957, but over the years it has gained adherents, among physicists and Hollywood screenwriters alike.
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| 0:00.0 | From PRX. |
| 0:07.0 | This is Studio 360. |
| 0:08.9 | I'm Kurt Anderson. |
| 0:12.3 | On this podcast Extra, we're bringing you a special series of stories about science and creativity. |
| 0:18.7 | First up is a three-part look at a staple of science fiction and fantasy, |
| 0:24.0 | the multiverse. |
| 0:25.6 | A lot of physicists think the idea |
| 0:27.6 | of parallel universes |
| 0:28.9 | is not so far-fetched. |
| 0:31.8 | So today on Studio 360, |
| 0:33.5 | we're going to talk to artists |
| 0:34.8 | who try to imagine |
| 0:35.9 | what our lives would be like in a multiverse. |
| 0:43.3 | You unlock this door with the key of imagination. |
| 0:47.0 | The Twilight Zone. How I loved it. |
| 0:50.0 | In 1963, they aired this episode called The Parallel. |
| 0:54.5 | An astronaut completes his mission and reunites with his family. |
| 0:58.3 | But it turns out that he landed on a mirror Earth. |
| 1:01.7 | And the family he thinks is his own, they're just lookalikes. |
| 1:05.9 | Tell Mommy and Colonel Conacher who I am. |
| 1:08.1 | Tom, please. |
| 1:09.7 | A sweetheart, you say whatever's on your mind. Tell him who I am. Oh, please. Now, sweetheart, you say whatever's on your mind. |
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