Google's new Willow quantum chip performed a calculation in minutes that would take the fastest supercomputers septillions of ...

The idea that parallel universes may play a role in quantum computing isn't new, but Neven's statement marked the first time ...

Is our universe one of many? The multiverse is a key plot device ... So the biggest misconception about the multiverse is that it’s a bone fide theory that’s been proven.

Hawking backed a radical new idea: M-theory. It predicts that there are many universes, and that there is no theory of everything to describe our particular Universe. Instead the laws of physics ...

In practice, many string theorists take a more ... of the T.O.E.—the ultimate explanation of the universe at its most microscopic level, a theory that does not rely on any deeper explanation ...

The BBC's Pallab Ghosh explains how Prof Stephen Hawking's final paper resolved a cosmic conundrum Prof Stephen Hawking's final research paper suggests that our Universe may be one of many similar ...

If the so-called Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics is correct, there's at least one universe in which you ... also known as the theory of parallel worlds—in the published version ...

The bad news is that the observed value is way smaller than what we would expect from theory. This puzzle ... can still spawn in the many possible universes with abundant dark energy too—there ...

If expansion is infinite, which many believe it is ... That would be compelling evidence for both string theory and parallel universes, and it would help explain why gravity seems to be so ...

Physicist Alan Guth, the father of cosmic inflation theory, describes emerging ideas about where our universe comes from, what else is out there, and what caused it to exist in the first place.