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THEORETICAL PHYSICS: Physics Enters the Twilight Zone
Charles Seife
Parallel universes have launched a thousand bad science-fiction plots. Now mainstream physicists and cosmologists are arguing that they are both useful and, in an infinite cosmos, inevitable.