Paul Halpern

Physicist

Paul Halpern is a professor of physics at Saint Joseph’s University and the author of eighteen popular science books, including Flashes of Creation, The Quantum Labyrinth, and Einstein's Dice and Schrodinger's Cat. His latest book is The Allure of the Multiverse. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a fellow of the American Physical Society. He lives near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

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Hard Science

Is the multiverse real? Here’s how physicists approach the theories

Some physicists are besot with the multiverse, but if we can’t detect these other universes, how seriously should we take them?