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The Multiverse—From Epicurus to Comic Books and Beyond

The Multiverse—From Epicurus to Comic Books and Beyond

Update: 2024-11-22

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On this ID the Future, Discovery Institute senior fellow Andrew McDiarmid explores the roots of the idea that our universe is just one of many universes, an idea stretching back to the ancient atomists and given new life in the modern era, first by physicist Hugh Everett. McDiarmid then looks at how the idea percolated into comic books and from there into popular culture. He caps off the episode with a reading of a recent article about the multiverse hypothesis by Stephen Meyer, author of the recent bestseller, Return of the God Hypothesis.

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The Multiverse—From Epicurus to Comic Books and Beyond

The Multiverse—From Epicurus to Comic Books and Beyond

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