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Strange Multiverse

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  As marvel cinematic universe has reached its 27th film. It is running out of major characters to kill. So it has adopted the oldest trick in comic books : the concept of multiverse. Where multiple versions of the same people live in simultaneous reality. But what if I tell you that concept of multiverse is a major scientific theory supported by the biggest scientists of our time. Apart from comic books, the first time I read about multiverse was in the book of Stephen Hawking where he postulated multiverse as a logical possibility of our current scientific theories.  World of small particles is governed by theory of Quantum Mechanics. A fundamental feature of the theory is that it usually cannot predict with certainty what will happen, but only give probabilities.  For example, a quantum particle like an electron can be described by a wave function, which associates to each point in space a probability amplitude. This is the best the theory can do; it cannot say fo...