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apocalypse soon

How Is the Universe Going to End?

As far as cosmic questions go, it's as good a one as any: When will our great universe cease to be, and shuffle our great^10^75-grandchildren off the mortal coil? This concern goes beyond the death of the Sun in 5 billion years, or even the theorized crash of the Milky Way into the Andromeda galaxy in 7 billion. No, the death of the universe is truly giant on every scale - unavoidable, and fascinating. More »

3:00 PM on Sun Sep 7 2008
By Nivair H. Gabriel
23,107 views, 35 comments

Latest by meirelle: Either heat death or freeze death. :P All the other ones are most likely wrong. more »

Listen To The Multiverse Being Explained Confused by the intricacies of the concept of multiple parallel universes all co-existing at the same time? WNYC's Radiolab wants to help with this hour-long conversation between host Robert Krulwich and Brian Greene, physics and mathematics professor and director of the Institute of Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics at Columbia University. Learn just how un-unique you actually are. The (Multi) Universe(s) [Radiolab]

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schrodinger's girl

Girl's Meeting With Her Alternate Self: Worst Date Ever

Who says that the alternate-world genre has been killed by lackluster treatment in things like Sliders, Jet Li's The One, or DC's Countdown comic? British indie SF movie Schrödinger's Girl aims to change that, showing the accidental downside to one woman's attempt to prove the existence of other versions of herself throughout the multiverse. Here's a hint: One of the alternate hers may be a little too eager to shoot people. More »

10:00 AM on Thu Apr 24 2008
By Graeme McMillan
3,393 views, 36 comments

Latest by Turlough: @corpore-metal: I'm thinking more an infinite number of universes where only a finite number of possibilities can happen. Actually, more »

dc comics

The Multiverse Is Strictly Business, Says DC Comics Czar

If you've found DC Comics hard to understand over the past year, chances are it's because of the multiverse. DC used to have tons of alternate universes, but they collapsed into one nice, tidy universe in 1985. Until last year, when suddenly DC had 52 different realities to play with again. I decided to hound DC super-editor Dan Didio for an explanation as to why DC's writers and editors are so obsessed with alternate timelines. Here's what he said the second and third times I asked him, plus some info on multiverses in science fiction. More »

4:00 PM on Mon Feb 25 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
2,998 views, 23 comments

Latest by steven522: @jinchoung: Calm down. You'd think I was talking about you, personally, or something. more »