Multiverse
The multiverse is a hypothetical group of multiple universes. Together, these universes comprise everything that exists: the entirety of space, time, matter, energy, information, and the physical laws and constants that describe them. The different universes within the multiverse are called "parallel universes", "other universes", or "alternate universes".
The concept of multiple universes existed since the middle ages. Notable was the theory of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi of the Islamic Golden Age, who intended to explain the probable existence of the multiverse, based on general principles of the Quran.[1][2]
In Dublin in 1952, Erwin Schrödinger gave a lecture in which he jocularly warned his audience that what he was about to say might "seem lunatic". He said that when his equations seemed to describe several different histories, these were "not alternatives, but all really happen simultaneously".[3]
The American philosopher and psychologist William James used the term "multiverse" in 1895, but in a different context.[4] The term was first used in fiction and in its current physics context by Michael Moorcock in his 1963 SF Adventures novella The Sundered Worlds.
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