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Multiverse Theory

Multiverse theory suggests that our universe may not be the only one and that there could exist an infinite number of other universes with their own laws of physics. The concept arises from inflation theory, which describes how the early universe rapidly expanded; it's possible that inflation continued in some regions, giving rise to other universes. While no direct evidence has been found, the multiverse theory implies that with an infinite number of universes, the same arrangements of particles must repeat, meaning duplicates of our universe and lives exist elsewhere.

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Multiverse Theory

Multiverse theory suggests that our universe may not be the only one and that there could exist an infinite number of other universes with their own laws of physics. The concept arises from inflation theory, which describes how the early universe rapidly expanded; it's possible that inflation continued in some regions, giving rise to other universes. While no direct evidence has been found, the multiverse theory implies that with an infinite number of universes, the same arrangements of particles must repeat, meaning duplicates of our universe and lives exist elsewhere.

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Multiverse theory

Multiverse theory suggests that our universe, with all its hundreds of billions of galaxies and almost
countless stars, spanning tens of billions of light-years, may not be the only one. Instead, there may be
an entirely different universe, distantly separated from ours — and another, and another. Indeed, there
may be an infinity of universes, all with their own laws of physics, their own collections of stars and
galaxies (if stars and galaxies can exist in those universes), and maybe even their own intelligent
civilizations.

It could be that our universe is just one member of a much grander, much larger multitude of universes:
a multiverse.

The concept of the multiverse arises in a few areas of physics (and philosophy), but the most prominent
example comes from something called inflation theory. Inflation theory describes a hypothetical event
that occurred when our universe was very young — less than a second old. In an incredibly brief amount
of time, the universe underwent a period of rapid expansion, "inflating" to become many orders of
magnitude larger than its previous size, according to NASA.

Inflation of our universe is thought to have ended about 14 billion years ago, said Heling Deng, a
cosmologist at Arizona State University and an expert in multiverse theory. "However, inflation does not
end everywhere at the same time," Deng told Live Science in an email. "It is possible that as inflation
ends in some region, it continues in others."

Thus, while inflation ended in our universe, there may have been other, much more distant regions
where inflation continued — and continues even today.

Many scientists have tried to find more physical, hard evidence for the multiverse's existence. For
example, if a neighboring universe happened to be close to ours long ago, it may have collided with our
universe, creating a detectable imprint. That imprint could be in the form of distortions in the cosmic
microwave background (the light left over from when the universe was a million times smaller than it is
today) or in strange galaxy properties in the direction of the collision, according to the Early Universe.
But all of these types of searches have come up empty, so the multiverse remains hypothetical.

Perhaps the most mind-bending implication of the multiverse is the existence of doppelgängers. If there
really are an infinity of universes but a finite number of ways to arrange particles in any individual
universe, then the same patterns are bound to be repeated, eventually. Because there would be an
infinite number of universes, there would be an infinite number of exact scenarios all happening
simultaneously, according to the Institute of Physics.

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