DIY Universe
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Can you make your own universe? We usually think of the universe as 'everything that exists,' so how could you make another one?
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(laughing) - Aye, quiet. - You're listening to Radio Lab. - The podcast. - From. - Who you are public radio. - Public radio, W, N, Y, C. - N, N, P, R. - Hey I'm Chad Abumrod. - And I'm Robert Krollich. - This is Radio Lab. - The podcast. - Yes. Ooh that was exciting. - And this particular turn of our wheel, we are going to be taking up a very odd, odd idea. - Which is? - Is it possible for a human, a man or a woman, probably a mature man or a woman, we'd hope to build their own universe? - Huh? Do you mean like a theory? - No I actually, this, I'm going to, this is a serious proposition. There are people who are now thinking about it seriously at Stanford, in Israel, in Japan, theoretical physicists who are trying to figure out how one might go about this. - Go about building a universe? - Create a whole universe. - As in like a carpenter, like in a carpentorial sort of way? Like here build a table? - In a carpentorial sort of way. - No, you know whether that's not possible? - Why? - Because the universe is that which we are apart of. So how can you build something that we're already a part of that doesn't necessarily sense? - To begin this conversation, we do have to consider this word universe, which to most of us as you just said means everything that is. - Everything. - And therefore by definition, there should only be one of them. - Yes of course. - But for physicists like Brian Green, our friend Brian Green, who came to my kitchen, so we could have this discussion. - To physicists like him, he's very comfortable with the idea of more than one universe. And that's been the case for physicists for a while now. - I don't know the first time, but the idea that there might be many universes has surprisingly cropped up
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Can you make your own universe? We usually think of the universe as 'everything that exists,' so how could you make another one?