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Calculating the multiverse

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Fred Adams

Fred Adams.

Could there be many other universes beside our own? Astrophysicist Fred Adams believes there could: if one universe managed to spring into existence, then why not others? At the FQXi international conference in Banff, Canada, he told us how he is using knowledge about our own Universe to calculate how many of those other universes could be similar to our own.

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