Listen up, fans of Star Trek and Dark Shadows: The father of parallel universes is finally getting his due on television. You'll find the tribute to quantum physicist Hugh Everett III in Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives. PBS' Nova presents this touching, imaginative program at 8 p.m. Tuesday.
Can we detect the existence of parallel worlds in the lab? Quantum physicist Vlatko Vedral checks out the suggestion that a newand surprisingly simpleexperiment could tell us if alternate universes exist, once and for all. Read more
Hugh Everett Hugh Everett III (November 11, 1930 July 19, 1982) was an American physicist who first proposed the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics, which he called his "relative state" formulation.
This year is the 50th anniversary of Hugh Everetts most important contribution to science - a controversial theory of quantum mechanics that predicts the existence of Parallel Universes, one of the most fantastic scientific predictions ever to have been conceived.