152 Do We Live in a Multiverse?
Computers, Science, Tech | Registration opens 8/5/25 9:00 AM EDT
Is our universe just one of a multitude of other universes? This multiverse idea has gained more interest in scientific circles over the last several decades to provide potential answers to several problems in physics and astronomy. In order to understand the rationale behind some of these multiverse ideas, we will need to cover a multitude of exciting issues like: the historic development of our view of the universe, the world of elementary particle physics, the structure and development of the universe since the Big Bang, black holes, the “finetuning” problem of the fundamental constants of physics, and finally whether there are fundamental limits to what we can ever learn about the physical world.
Soren Sorensen
Soren Sorensen is Chancellor's Professor Emeritus in nuclear physics at the University of Tennessee. He received his PhD at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was a professor at UT for 37 years with 12 years as department head and was a research associate in the physics division at ORNL for 38 years. His main research focus has been experimental studies of hot and dense nuclear matter. In his retirement he enjoys studying cosmology and doing woodworking.