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I remember watching the episode "Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives" on NOVA about physicist Hugh Everett III.

I confess I initially watched it because I was interested in Hugh's son, Mark Everett of the band The Eels.

But it ended up being a poignant look at the also-rans in science. The ideas that failed.

Link: https://vimeo.com/eels/parallelworlds

Failed? There are very few top theoretical physicists (though still some) who still believe in collapse, and the rest believe something morally equivalent to an Everettian theory.

I agree, from the point of view of a layman, there seems to have been a reawakening in regard to his parallel worlds theory. The NOVA episode suggests there was nothing like that in his life time though. Sadly.

In his lifetime in our world :P

Very awesome video on physics and how some theorem are ignored for no reason but just being far ahead of their time, thanks for this link dude.

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