Mystery of the Multiverse
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- Posted 02.16.12
- NOVA
Think you’re one of a kind? Well, think again. In this video excerpt from NOVA’s "The Fabric of the Cosmos: Universe or Multiverse?", host and theoretical physicist Brian Greene explains how the concept of the multiverse, or the idea that there could be multiple universes outside of our own universe, challenges the notion of uniqueness. In the multiverse, there could be countless other universes, many of them very different than our universe. However, mathematically speaking, there should be a universe out there just like our own, with exact copies of everything—and everyone.
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- Running Time: 2m 43s
- Size: 9.9 MB
- Level: Grades 9-12
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This media asset was adapted from NOVA's "The Fabric of the Cosmos: Universe or Multiverse?".
Questions for Discussion
- What is a multiverse?
- What are some things you might find in other universes?
- In the video excerpt, we leave Earth and zoom out into the Universe. Can you name all the different scales that we move through, and the objects that are found at that scale?
- How do scientists define size and shape of the observable universe?
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