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  • The most famous of these is commonly known as the many-worlds interpretation, which has achieved a dominant position in pop culture, if not among physicists, thanks to its prediction of a nearly infinite number of alternate universes in which events took a different path than the one we see.

    How to Teach Physics to Your Dog CHAD ORZEL 2009

  • One mainstream explanation is the 'many-worlds' interpretation, which states that each of these possible observations corresponds to a different universe the 'multiverse'.

    Five Reasons You Won't Die M.D. Robert Lanza 2011

  • "I don't know of another mainstream US show that has ever used the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics as the driving force of the show"

    Fringe Takes A Break, Again 2009

  • The many-worlds interpretation posits only one universe, but it splits into “many worlds” based on the logic of quantum mechanics.

    First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

  • I don't know of another mainstream US show that has ever used the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics as the driving force of the show (sure, there's Charlie Jade, but that was never mainstream here).

    Fringe Takes A Break, Again 2009

  • There is a fine distinction between multiverse and many-worlds.

    David Heddle's take on the Fine-Tuning Argument 2010

  • I'm not that familiar with multiverse, but the many-worlds sort of naturally proceeds from quantum mechanics.

    David Heddle's take on the Fine-Tuning Argument 2010

  • Today, between fields of luminous rapeseed, I drove up to Oxford to see Peter Byrne deliver a talk on the life of Hugh Everett III, the inventor of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

  • Whether there really are many worlds, or whether many-worlds (like imaginary numbers and infinite series representations) are more of a conceptual artifact than reality is another story ….

    David Heddle's take on the Fine-Tuning Argument 2010

  • The logical extension of time travel is the many-worlds idea - you know, every event causes a probability branch in history, leading to a panoply of possible realities which differ from the 'baseline' reality to a variety of degrees, so on and so forth.

    MIND MELD: The Tricky Trope of Time Travel 2009

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