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Many lives in many worlds

Nature volume 448, pages 23–24 (2007)Cite this article

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

By the time Everett started his graduate work with John Archibald Wheeler at Princeton University in New Jersey quantum mechanics had chalked up stunning successes in explaining the atomic realm, yet debate raged on as to what its mathematical formalism really meant. I was fortunate to get to discuss quantum mechanics with Wheeler during my postdoctorate years in Princeton, but never had the chance to meet Everett.

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