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Nature 448, 23-24 (5 July 2007) | doi:10.1038/448023a; Published online 4 July 2007

Many lives in many worlds

Max Tegmark1

  1. In this Universe, Max Tegmark is a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

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Accepting quantum physics to be universally true, argues Max Tegmark, means that you should also believe in parallel universes.

Almost all of my colleagues have an opinion about it, but almost none of them have read it. The first draft of Hugh Everett's PhD thesis, the shortened official version of which celebrates its 50th birthday this year, is buried in the out-of-print book The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.

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