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The presenter and physicist Brian Cox says he supports the idea that many universes can exist at the same time.
The idea may sound far-fetched but the "many worlds" concept is the subject of serious debate among physicists.
It is a particular interpretation of quantum mechanics - which describes the often counter-intuitive behaviour of energy and matter at small scales.
Prof Cox made the comments during an interview with Radio 4's The Life Scientific programme.
In a famous thought experiment devised by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrodinger, a cat sealed inside a box can be both alive and dead at the same time. Or any combination of different probabilities of being both dead and alive.

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the daily mash wrote:Parallel universe Brian Coxes are cooler and more famous



THE Brian Cox of Earth-161 has confirmed that the multiverse is real and our Brian Cox is a loser.

Brian Cox-161, his universe’s most renowned physicist, proved the existence of an infinite number of Earths and developed a way of travelling between them.

Along with Brian Cox-928, who made his rave-pop group the most successful band since The Beatles, and the quantum-powered Brian Cox-555, they make up the Legion of Transreal Coxes which our Brian Cox has not been invited to join.

Brian Cox-707, who after killing Hitler rules his Earth as a benevolent technocratic dictator, said: “Seriously, a TV presenter?

“He could have been the greatest musical talent of his generation, he could have rewritten the laws of the universe, and instead he explains simple concepts to cod-eyed crisp munchers?

“We can’t have any respect for a Cox who, given access to the Large Hadron Collider, doesn’t turn himself into protons to surf the Hawking radiation of a black hole. He’s dead to us.”

Horwood Beer-Master wrote:

the daily mash wrote:Parallel universe Brian Coxes are cooler and more famous



THE Brian Cox of Earth-161 has confirmed that the multiverse is real and our Brian Cox is a loser.

Brian Cox-161, his universe’s most renowned physicist, proved the existence of an infinite number of Earths and developed a way of travelling between them.

Along with Brian Cox-928, who made his rave-pop group the most successful band since The Beatles, and the quantum-powered Brian Cox-555, they make up the Legion of Transreal Coxes which our Brian Cox has not been invited to join.

Brian Cox-707, who after killing Hitler rules his Earth as a benevolent technocratic dictator, said: “Seriously, a TV presenter?

“He could have been the greatest musical talent of his generation, he could have rewritten the laws of the universe, and instead he explains simple concepts to cod-eyed crisp munchers?

“We can’t have any respect for a Cox who, given access to the Large Hadron Collider, doesn’t turn himself into protons to surf the Hawking radiation of a black hole. He’s dead to us.”

GrahamH wrote:How does an entire universe split in two at every quantum event?

Ven. Kwan Tam Woo wrote:

GrahamH wrote:How does an entire universe split in two at every quantum event?

Magic.

The idea may sound far-fetched but the "many worlds" concept is the subject of serious debate among physicists.

Ven. Kwan Tam Woo wrote:

GrahamH wrote:How does an entire universe split in two at every quantum event?

Magic.

Hugh Everett III (November 11, 1930 – July 19, 1982) was an American physicist who first proposed the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics, which he termed his "relative state" formulation.

Discouraged by the scorn[4] of other physicists for MWI, Everett ended his physics career after completing his Ph.D.

DougC wrote:Which ones?