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Parallel Worlds: can the multiverse explain the course of history?

20 mins | May 28, 2017
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Humans have long been fascinated by parallel universes. In fact, writes Andrew Crumey the term multiverse has vintage. But can the multiverse explain the course of history, he asks, and if human history turns on the tilt of the multiverse, can we still trust our ideas of achievement, progress and morality?

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