[extropy-chat] Parallel worlds

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>From Delaware Online: You could either feel awe-inspired or small, listening
to Max Tegmark's lecture at the University of Delaware on Wednesday
afternoon on the probability of the existence of parallel universes
mimicking or diverging from our own. Tegmark, a professor of physics and
astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania, discussed the multiverse (more
than one "uni-" verse) with a standing-room-only group of more than 50
budding physicists and assorted philosophy, biology and science majors at a
UD Department of Physics and Astronomy lecture. Of course, your reaction
depends upon your point of view.
Tegmark has published many articles about the subject in academic
periodicals and more mainstream magazines, including "Scientific American."
Born in Sweden, he earned a doctorate from the University of California at
Berkeley and post-doctorate degrees in Europe and at Princeton. According to
Tegmark, the most popular and simplest cosmological model today predicts
that there is another you not a short distance from us doing - exactly or
approximately, depending on those unpre- dictable quantum mechanics - what
you're doing now: eating breakfast, riding in a carpool, or wrinkling your
brow and rolling your eyes.
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