The Alternative Universe Newswire
January 29, 2009 at 09:05 AM EST
There is a theory in particle physics, known as the many-worlds hypothesis, which posits that there are an inifinite number of universes, with a new one created whenever a particle’s qunatum wave function “collapses.” Readers of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy will be familiar with one “practical” interpretation of the hypothesis, wherein similar but [...]