According to the last paper published by Stephen Hawking, our universe is simpler than previously imagined. The paper went by the name "A Smooth Exit from Eternal Inflation?" and it was authored by ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. Imagine that the Universe we observe, from end-to-end, is just a drop ...

Below, Halpern shares five key insights from his new book, The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universes. Listen to the audio version—read by Halpern himself—in ...

The idea of a multiverse consisting of "parallel universes" is a popular science fiction trope, recently explored in the Oscar-winning movie "Everything Everywhere All At Once." However, it is within ...

If you can’t see it, it doesn’t exist. That’s an old philosophy, one that many scientists swallowed whole. But as Ziva David of NCIS would say, it’s total salami. After all, you can’t see bacteria and ...

(Nanowerk News) It’s easy to envisage other universes, governed by slightly different laws of physics, in which no intelligent life, nor indeed any kind of organised complex systems, could arise.

When quantum mechanics was young, scientific giants of the day went toe to toe over the unquestionably bizarre, almost preposterous new theory. For Albert Einstein, wave functions and indeterminate ...

Sabine Hossenfelder is a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies in Germany. Her research focuses on general relativity and quantum gravity. She is author of the blog ...