Cosmos: It's Big, It's Weird

Published: June 3, 2013, 7 a.m.

It\u2019s all about you. And you, and you, and you and you\u2026 that is, if we live in parallel universes. Imagine you doing exactly what you\u2019re doing now, but in an infinite number of universes.\nDiscover the multiverse theory and why repeats aren\u2019t limited to summer television.\nPlus, the physics of riding on a light beam, and the creative analogies a New York Times science writer uses to avoid using the word \u201cweird\u201d to describe dark energy and other weird physics.\nAlso, people who concoct their own theories (some would say fringe) of the universe: is all matter made up of tiny coiled springs?\nGuests:\n\n\nBrian Greene \u2013 Physicist and mathematician, Columbia University, and author of The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos\n\n\n\nDennis Overbye \u2013 Reporter, New York Times\n\n\nSimon Steel \u2013 Science educator at University College London\n\n\nMargaret Wertheim \u2013 Science writer, author of Physics on the Fringe: Smoke Rings, Circlons, and Alternative Theories of Everything\n\n\nDescripci\xf3n en espa\xf1ol\nFirst released January 9, 2012.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices