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The trick: quantum computers don't just split universes, they also merge universes.
The trick: quantum computers don't just split universes, they also merge universes.
The constant splitting of universes from every different decision leads to an infinite number of universes.
There are alternate universes—better universes—in which Fall Out Boy's new song "Young And Menace" doesn't exist.
But I like the ability to keep reinventing across platforms, across universes, across programming ideas, programming verticals, without the constraints of a handful of universes.
The narratives of modern Bioware show this well, as Mass Effect and Dragon Age build unique universes, built on their own social conflicts and universes rather than established lore.
Some physicists are drawn instead to the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, in which observers in some universes see the electron go through the left slit, while those in other universes see it go through the right slit—which is fine, if you're comfortable with an infinite array of unseen universes.
It might sound crazy that black holes could spawn new universes— especially since we're not sure other universes exist — but the theory behind this is an active field of research today.
Self-contained universes: What Alibaba and rivals like Tencent and JD.com are doing is corralling businesses into branded, self-contained, AI-infused universes in which only their affiliates capture the profit.
They considered the path integral over all possible toy universes in "minisuperspace," defined as the set of all universes with a single energy field coursing through them: the energy that powered cosmic inflation.
Do you have any universes whose premature death you mourn?
Rather, we're individuals, and little universes in our own right.
One weekend can stretch out into a million tiny universes.
We live in an age of reboots and cinematic universes.
They encapsulated the awe of ringed planets and entire universes.
These universes are unable to ever communicate with one another.
Oh yeah, did I mention the alternate timelines and universes?
He was featured in both the DC and Marvel universes.
For expansive universes like Star Wars, fans want new stories.
Perhaps most importantly, both kinds of universes contain black holes.
The endless expansion of these prefab universes has its boons.
Originally, all three of these characters came from separate universes.
Geneviève dying was a border between two completely different universes.
Even the tourists from other universes are sorry to leave.
These represent the two alternate universes of the wine business.
They're built off of the movie universes, they are narratives.
Marvel's alternate timelines and universes add context and color to what Gyllenhaal's Mysterio is saying about the "multiverse," the concept of all these alternate, but sometimes very similar, universes existing independently of one another.
Except for this: The universes keep going, that much is clear.
Never mind that their styles of acting come from different universes.
Because this is a weekend full of doppelgängers and alternative universes.
These different universes that existed that I didn't know about before.
Because like all good pop music, "Into You" contains infinite universes.
That's because the military in both universes smartly pursue identical objectives.
" Palihapitiya added that he feels he is "in two different universes.
A streaming service that includes the Star Wars and Marvel universes
Because one day there may well be proof of multiple universes.
Some, like "Breaking Bad," assumed moral universes of retribution and consequences.
Your screen and stage careers seem to be in different universes.
Others, like Loki and WandaVision will exist in tied-in universes.
People seem quite able and happy to live in parallel universes.
The problem is, if there are infinite universes there is no way to position our own selves in our universe and no governing laws of physics across all universes that can be used to know them.
It could be that "in most of [the universes], the Higgs boson is really heavy, and in only in very unusual universes [like our own] is the Higgs boson so light that life can form," Cranmer says.
Are there an infinite number of universes, each with its own laws?
Some of these universes may "work," but most of them likely won't.
They were essentially miniature interactive universes created within incredibly tight computing constraints.
What would be left over is universes with physics similar to ours.
They're different universes, and somehow, Nadia and Alan are skipping between them.
Another common aspect of all those universes is that they're low magic.
A historian's job is not to speculate about alternative universes, he says.
Volta artists created psychedelia with intricate geometric patterns, alluding to alternate universes.
They fail, destroying universes and alienating their superhero peers along the way.
"The infinite universes are absolutely key to the RickMorty fandom," Futagogo said.
Fear the Walking Dead Contemporary storytelling is increasingly all about expanded universes.
Both of his barbed-wire universes were on display here last week.
Instead, we're seeing polarization, alternative information universes and the rise of autocracy.
But this season it seems as if you're getting into parallel universes.
I'm really into making these little universes you can get lost in.
Gingrich told Kelly that there are "two parallel universes" in this election.
King fully explores the interconnectivity of his universes throughout the Dark Tower.
Dean Spiliotes: Democats and Republicans in parallel universes If voters want further proof that the Republican and Democratic presidential races are unfolding in parallel political universes, they need look no further than the two recent debates from each party.
The two markets still exist in different universes separated by China's capital controls.
Don't worry, I'm not going to talk about multiple universes or quantum tunneling.
She's transfixed, staring through it like a Magic Eye poster, hypnotized, between universes.
S. trade war on a wide range of sectors in their coverage universes.
These bubbles are thus closed off from each other, effectively becoming isolated universes.
Agree or disagree, there's been a lot of interesting writing about fictional universes.
And with this new math, the fractal pattern of pocket universes goes away.
Forget different worlds; the characters feel like they belong to completely different universes.
Glass combines the universes to create a creepy superhero meets psychology drama vibe.
"The discrepancy was hard, because I was straddling two universes," Louis-Dreyfus said.
Instead, it reports which of those two universes you are currently living in.
Conway and Frank even start their days in what feel like different universes.
Studios are reaching far beyond the obvious contenders to create their cinematic universes.
These miniature universes were photographed from above, in the mode of aerial photography.
The giants in the sky are centers of their own universes of life.
Decades after splitting the atom, technology has split society into different ideological universes.
This theory imagines the existence of many separate universes other than our own.
Aluminium looks set to follow the same path as the two universes collide.
The part about appropriation, Alessandro and I are part of two parallel universes.
GINGRICH: I know, I just told you, we're living in two alternate universes.
They can actually store entire universes in their mouths, and they can travel interdimensionally.
It appears we may be emerging in to, sort of, two parallel universes, right?
But until extremely recently, stories were born out of shared universes all the time.
I just think the idea of creating these tiny little universes is so wondrous.
Past events like Marvel's Civil War and DC's Rebirth shook up their respective universes.
Moreover, being Hitlers of their universes, they can easily squash dissent on their shows.
It looks quite magical, with five suns and countless stars and interconnected parallel universes.
Men and women largely still work in different universes, and men's work pays better.
We are in a time of two competing universes for our politics and governance.
The comics universes are easier targets for that argument, but it's not just them.
This idea, championed by Hawking and Hertog, also implies that there are infinite universes.
Visions of the future and alternate universes are inherently political, because change is political.
But not every one of the coming wave of expanded universes looks so strong.
Science fiction is full of portals and membranes that separate people, universes, and dimensions.
Except that theorists can now write papers about that large number of new universes.
Both titles also rely on parallel dimensions and infinite universes as a plot device.
There, the struggle over the restive region of Catalonia plays out in parallel universes.
The two companies, prior to the acquisition, were also operating in different financial universes.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing, since it helps establish shared universes and continuity.
Feed the computer enough data on a number of "parallel universes," she wrote, and the computer will be capable of observing the implications of each of these universes and then find patterns, allowing predictions to be made about the future of the conflict.
Her 1666 romance The Blazing World, with its interplanetary travel and multiple universes, is an early forerunner of science fiction (it was the first book to feature interplanetary travel and multiple universes), and her philosophy, much mocked in its day, anticipates contemporary naturalism.
Polarization has segregated most Americans into parallel factual universes at the expense of reasonable discussion.
Throughout his film career, Johnny Depp has gotten to live in some incredible imaginary universes.
Algebraic topologists have lived almost exclusively in multidimensional universes of their own calculation for decades.
Big Ups – Before a Million Universes This album was just reviewed on The Needle Drop.
To complicate them with illusion and games enables full, meditative immersion into these mini-universes.
Each of these bubbles would then be single universes in a grander, ever-inflating multiverse.
He did this by identifying "swamplands": failed universes that are too logically inconsistent to exist.
Or that closeness may turn out to be the deceptive proximity of parallel legal universes.
The spaces celebrating the universes inside of us are worth retaining for that reason alone.
Yep, it's all here—even brief forays into parallel universes and hidden dimensions of space.
Technology's ability to exacerbate human vanity remains, then and now and in fictional universes, unchanging.
Some theorize that quantum computers draw their computing power by running calculations in alternate universes.
They live in different universes, with independents somewhere in the middle of the huge chasm.
That's the idea where there are tons of universes all existing parallel to one another.
More than 50 years ago, Stephen Hawking wrote his doctoral thesis on how universes expand.
Questioning Pixar universes is a dangerous road, and really not an all that rewarding activity.
Nearly all Morrison's protagonists are women whose identities and narrative trajectories fill entire fictional universes.
One possible explanation is that there exist multiple universes, or what scientists call the multiverse.
We cannot seem to move our bodies but universes are opening out on the screen.
They conclude that, in their new model, all universes must share some law of physics.
It's probably one of the longest and most richly connected fantasy universes of all time.
It'll be released on June 27 and bring in The Elder Scrolls universes' Khajiit race.
From the bed, this room, every room, seems to preclude the theory of parallel universes.
Even better, the other universes aren't observable, hence multiverse theories are safe from experimental test.
The source said "GMA" is like two universes on one show, with the 7 a.m.
But some of these universes would have been created, by accident, with relatively high order.
Intriguing titles have been released from many of the shared universes under the Disney umbrella.
Even the way films are made right now, they're talked about as universes, franchises, right?
More than ever before, people of different ideological backgrounds seem to live in separate universes.
It's really a minor miracle, particularly in our world of expanded cinematic universes and groupthink sequels.
And thus, the characters in the Marvel universe separated into their own separate universes on film.
We're in totally different universes but have a similar, if not the same or battling fandoms.
And Mellie Grant is President in both universes, which is such a win for everyone, honestly.
He continues working with maps, posters, and the like in "Billions of Never Ending Universes" (2015).
Nice Howard isn't aware he's been working for an organization that monitors a passageway between universes.
I guess maybe it's not as unusual as I think because people talk about extended universes.
That is not the only sense in which financiers and trade negotiators exist in parallel universes.
It's so mind-blowing to think of the many parallel universes that these stories open up.
It also means that beyond the border of our observable universe, there may be more universes.
In the paper, Hawking argues that existence is simpler: that space doesn't spawn countless separate universes.
Essentially, there's one grand inflationary soup that smaller, low entropy universes sprout out of like bubbles.
Valuing a freehold is tricky, involving thought experiments that delve into parallel universes and hypothetical futures.
Countless different shapes and sizes of universes are possible, and each can be a messy affair.
And that — the notion of one nation, in parallel universes — is not history, it's current events.
There are infinite possible universes, and yet in none of them does Whaboom win The Bachelorette.
In this game, he sees everyone as forming their own worldviews—their own self-created universes.
But that inevitably intersects with a larger world, where politics or even dystopian universes can prevail.
Bob and Ms. DeVayne are both 30, but they may as well be from parallel universes.
Poke around in the less-well-traveled reaches of the cable and streaming universes, that's what.
What if those other selves could get through the microscopic membrane separating their universes from ours?
With multiple, indeed an infinite number of, universes, some are inhospitable to life and others aren't.
And they show two candidates living in different moral universes when it comes to truth-telling.
If there aren't infinite universes, and simply many, what laws govern how many and which ones?
This gives future scientists and physicists a more structured set of information to identify other universes.
So I think that we will have a place where both of those universes can coexist.
There are plenty of other fictional universes in which Manson and his family make an appearance.
My brother and I, as little kids, created whole universes of "Star Trek" on our own.
He creates strange and beautiful creatures in parallel universes that open you up onto other worlds.
Looking at us, it was not immediately obvious that Charlie and I came from different universes.
These authors would invite others to write in their universes (and potentially make money from sales).
Still, the nation is at a point where partisans often seem to exist in different universes.
Further, the Flerken oral cavity is in fact a pocket dimension that can contain entire universes.
The last week featured two monumental liberal benders, both about their favorite destroyer of universes, President  Trump .
"Among the issues discussed was prison reform, education, alternate universes, Superman and flying cars," the voiceover stated.
They both showed me how you can create alternate universes to give answers when real life doesn't.
But as his strange new faith evolved, he embraced the idea that there were two parallel universes.
In those universes are countless iterations on the course of time, each varying slightly from the next.
The teams behind Twin Peaks and The X-Files took different approaches to updating their respective universes.
Across the Universes Start your list with three black writers who conjure an array of speculative worlds.
It would cut, wildly, between dimensions and universes, and its characters were often scattered to the winds.
And summing over universes with real values of lapse leads to the wildly fluctuating, physically nonsensical solution.
Occasionally, DC and Marvel even let their universes collide, just so their heroes could battle each other.
Both universes were eventually restored and merged (with a few important differences to set up new storylines).
But if you put it together with all the other possible universes, the math might check out.
Check. The legions of superheroes and their dueling universes force-fed to the moviegoing public each year?
As she traversed these make-believe universes with the body that she identified with in real life.
Which means that in the end, expanded universes only serve to make the big-screen experience smaller.
Nor does the actual energy department actually explore parallel universes, or combat monsters, as the show portrays.
"You've stated that you believe that there could be an infinite number of parallel universes," Oliver says.
And the way people envision themselves in this world, and other comic book universes, changes with time.
In fact, there are more configurations than there are atoms in a million universes just like ours.
We'd apparently been operating in parallel universes, each assuming that we knew and shared the other's goal.
"Gravity and quantum theory caused universes to be created spontaneously out of nothing," Hawking said in 2010.
They often lack compassion because as the center of their universes, who has time to notice others?
The console was the doorway to a thousand fantastical universes, and each cartridge was a different key.
Yes, exactly — perhaps there'll be a sort of president team-up of different presidents from different universes.
The most obvious difference between the Marvel and DC movie universes is the pace of the rollout.
We had these long and crazy talks about physics and multiple universes and all kinds of shit.
Sonic is from another dimension where animals speak, and glittering golden rings open up portals to other universes.
Seen in this light, untuned, un-lived-in universes may not be mere counterfactuals, but real and profuse.
The University of Cambridge has made Hawking's work, "Properties of Expanding Universes," free for anyone, given extraordinary demand.
They removed one of the four fundamental forces of nature, the weak nuclear force, from their hypothetical universes.
The project could be seen as a queer adaptation that executes this madness through various spirits and universes.
These theories look at the big picture and how long it can take universes, and stars, to form.
Competing accounts of what happened that day are so far apart that they exist in entirely separate universes.
Love him or hate him, you can't deny that his movies effectively encapsulate character studies within believable universes.
People are not unitary beings; they are entire universes for the "microbiomes" that live on and within them.
Captain America, resuscitated after having been in suspended animation since World War II. Antimatter universes, intergalactic world destroyers!
Punch his name into a fanfiction site search bar, and you'll find yourself awash in NSFW alternate universes.
This sequel latches on to another sensation of the moment: superhero stories and the cinematic universes they inhabit.
This ended, but according to proponents of the multiverse, inflation continued elsewhere, creating other universes in the process.
Weirder expansion histories, like football-shaped universes or caterpillar-like ones, mostly cancel out in the quantum calculation.
CNBC combed through company research to find analysts from different industries singling out stocks in their coverage universes.
They were windows into universes infinitely bigger than the small New Zealand town I grew up in. 212.
Standing as their own micro universes, former Drag Race contestants curated elaborate booths that fully encapsulated their aesthetics.
And occasionally an amplified voice spouts ominous and lyrical statements about holes without end and dark alternative universes.
The same things pulled them in as their predecessors: depression, punk theatrics, enormous stadium rock, fully-formed universes.
They can try to operate in parallel G.O.P. universes, but the two styles are often in obvious conflict.
It aims to create laboratories that combine experts from both universes under one unique company culture, Bajaj said.
As someone who is very strongly connected to her fandom universes, I have no right to judge people.
Called "Properties of expanding universes," it is about the origins of time and space as we know it.
Yes. As I wrote in that Braindead Megaphone essay; there are two different mythological universes that are working.
Charline von Heyl's paintings function like discrete universes of ideas and markings — but her overall position is clear.
" This passage was followed with Gertrude Stein -inspired repetitions, Hnath's vernacular poetry: "There are universes where you're President.
There are universes where none of us are President and where everyone else is President except for us.
But now that it is operational, Dark Emulator can churn out virtual universes in seconds on a laptop.
He then went into a long speech about different dimensions and universes that quickly went off the rails.
Heart disease and cancer — Killer 1 and Killer 2 in the United States — inhabited parallel universes of medicine.
Roland chases him to learn the truth of the Dark Tower, a building at the nexus of different universes.
However, it's a damn shame that they ended up in different universes (or do they?), but life's not perfect.
They're little bottled universes where, unlike in real life, you can objectively judge success and failure, victory and defeat.
As Rush Limbaugh, father of today's right-wing media, said way back in 2000: We live in two universes.
"China and the U.S. are in parallel universes," said Lee, speaking at the O'Reilly AI Conference in San Francisco.
Bryan: I think it's technically called "Expanded Universes Ruin Everything Syndrome," but that makes for a pretty crummy acronym.
As we've seen recently, even Miss Universes aren't immune to worrying about weight, which is a popular American pastime.
Rather than providing a single unique solution, string theory predicts a vast number of worlds — roughly 10500 possible universes.
There are more things in this world that deserve some hatred rather than movies or universes or fan things.
To use a concept of theoretical physics, America today faces two competing alternate universes at stake in the election.
One of the most special things in television universes are the ridiculously fake apps and websites that characters use.
"What the Russians exploited—but it was already here—is we are operating in completely different universes," Obama said.
In 2019, Disney purchased 21st Century Fox and obtained the cinematic universes of "Star Wars" and "Avatar," among others.
You'd be forgiven, watching the dueling livestreams, for thinking you'd stumbled across portals into a pair of parallel universes.
"The Flash" has introduced a favorite DC Comics concept to television: "the multiverse," an endless array of parallel universes.
The distance between the political environs of the real world and the fictional universes of television are quickly closing.
BMW shares that the artist's concept involved ancient Chinese philosophy and drew upon Fei's interest in creating parallel universes.
Garland, as a writer, is dealing with an enormous subject in "Devs" — knowledge at the scale of multiple universes.
It's also where some of my favorite universes—Jurassic Park, Independence Day—got their best presentation in game form.
I have often thought that the Hendersons and the Perdues are in parallel universes because we have similar values.
In that world is a giant black tower that serves as the center of all universes, including our own.
Ridley Howard's new "Light Paintings" at Marinaro are suffused with sunlight, steeped in dusk or suggest deep-black universes.
"I have always been obsessed with mechanical devices and I love to discover new universes," said Mr. Mille, 67.
Fans of both universes can celebrate the beautiful randomness of two worlds colliding, but look no further than that. 
The magic that took place as a result of what he did was bringing these two parallel universes together.
Within a year, most of the recent releases in the Star Wars and Marvel universes were Prime member exclusives.
In those areas, senators are struggling to wrap their minds around the alternate universes of the Trump presidency so far.
But it's a really great episode, one that actually tells you a lot about how the Superman/Batman universes intersect.
CNBC combed through sell-side stock research to find companies that analysts are singling out in their respective coverage universes.
Brands can emulate this approach by optimizing their content for the long haul and creating immersive universes for their customers.
" Lowering expectations - Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, appearing on NBC's "Today" show "Robby and I are living in parallel universes.
For the first twelve episodes, this new chapter is a relaxed visit to one of Netflix's most gleefully charming universes.
If we do, in fact, live in a "multiverse," our own cosmos is just one of many universes out there.
Taken together, the multiverse, made up of all its individual universes, would comprise all of space, time, matter, and energy.
The theory relied on the existence of other universes, formed at the same time as ours during the Big Bang.
The other universes would be beyond the limits of our detection, and could have began before and after our own.
I hope this isn't the last time I get to do that, to join one of the comic book universes.
This is a question I've never been asked before and I live so much of my life in fictional universes.
Menezes hopes that sharing art about the multiple universes he experiences will inspire others to look at the condition's benefits.
Science (sort of) says that tiny actions create enormous ramifications later and that this is where parallel universes come from.
"What the Russians exploited — but it was already here — is we are operating in completely different information universes," he said.
Today, studios have begun plotting out "franchises" and entire "cinematic universes" before even dropping the puck on a first film.
If she can conjure a whole complex world in 15 minutes, what universes could she bring forth in the future?
It's true that contours passing through the good solution sum up possible universes with imaginary values for their lapse variables.
The office has artifacts all over it, many of which come from other parts of the Disney and Marvel universes.
The Marvel and Ultimate Universes are merged into a new Prime Universe, but the possibility of exploring other dimensions remains.
In my assessment, widespread use of contingent faculty by colleges and universes poses the greatest threat to the academic profession.
But for me, it's been an amazing tool for introducing my oldest daughter to one of my favorite fictional universes.
Our universe is full of a multitude of smaller, but no less significant, universes: realities created by the human mind.
What to make of the personal archives, the private universes, the physical stabs at permanence and immortality that collectors create?
If there are infinite universes, does that mean that there are no laws that can govern their organization or creation?
We spoke to Millar about how he and his team created the alternative universes in which Eddie roams and battles.
Both take place in magical universes that manage to remain anchored to the realities of life and death on earth.
" John Oliver, the host of "Last Week Tonight": "You've stated that there could be an infinite number of parallel universes.
In principle, one of those universes is ours — but nobody knows, because the math and physics are so horrendously complex.
I'm starting to realize that I live in one of the universes where I don't win and this is hard.
Steve may be a lot cooler than Jean-Ralphio, but Schwartz claims that's the trouble with traveling in parallel universes.
Lately, the broadcast drama has a hard time competing for attention with shinier objects in the pay and streaming universes.
The divide between these two universes of information is extreme -- so extreme that I sometimes find it hard to describe.
It's the Obamaworld primary, and they could all look to similar universes of advisers, donors and validators within the party.
""My home is a shrine to the fantasy universes I grew up with, and the new ones I enjoy today.
"Rogue One" isn't alone in this challenge, especially as a franchise-crazy Hollywood latches onto the concept of cinematic universes.
They talked about how they created thrilling, limitless universes they could visit on demand, within the comfort of their headphones.
Other types of universes may exist, but we'll never be able to observe them, according to this view of the cosmos.
Aside from the kids, this is the only other living thing — that we know of — that now exists in both universes.
Despite their differences, the interiors of both AdS and dS universes obey Einstein's classical gravity theory—everywhere outside singularities, that is.
Vafa had been working to rule out large swaths of the 10^^500 different possible universes that string theory naively allows.
New work has suggested that human beings might be the "new technology" that will eventually populate other planets, galaxies, or universes.
The cumulative effect of each cycle helps to cobble together two separate universes, each armed with its own set of facts.
CNBC did a deep dive through company research to find analysts from different industries singling out stocks in their coverage universes.
But the hopefuls in the thread prefer to think that the design was intentional and that, therefore, the universes are connected.
The violence in both Joker and John Wick is expressed differently, shot differently, and couched in different situations and moral universes.
This model implies that that before the Big Bang, was the big, inflating space, from which our and other universes emerge.
In the subsequent novels, Pullman plays out an enormous story in which inhabitants from across universes vie for control of existence.
Therefore, I would like to introduce you to my own humble analogy, which involves both a bank vault and parallel universes.
In this view, existence spreads out like a fractal drawing, and there are countless nooks in which pocket universes can reside.
In one of these myriad universes, a version of myself is wearing a green shirt today (I'm wearing a white one).
Universes were destroyed, Dr. Doom turned himself into a god, new characters were introduced, and every kind of hell broke loose.
"I wanted to create a cultural shock, a shock between two different universes," Mille told CNBC at his lab in Switzerland.
Six were related to either the Marvel or D.C. Cinematic Universes, and Kong: Skull Island is part of a new universe.
That made it easier to create shared universes, with popular characters guest-starring in less-popular books to goose their sales.
Twitter supports block lists and makes it easy for users to mass-block entire universes of people they don't even know.
They've done so with audacity and flamboyance, often creating entire universes around themselves, to define each new era from their last.
Liam Payne—a man who, in a number of alternative universes, is almost certainly a "promoter" who starts fights in bars.
These universes get saved by heroic individuals who are committed, against all odds and to the bitter end, to preserving them.
Then there's when I have thought about multiverse theory and wondered what I'm doing at that exact moment in other universes.
The Mission: Impossible series is one of the rare cinematic universes that doesn't put too much stock in its own continuity.
How much longer will these alternate universes continue to frighten us more than what we see out of our own windows?
Now he has shaggy hair, a beard and protects the world against magic and parallel universes, from his Greenwich Village base.
While my peers daydreamed about flying to the moon and being superheroes in alternate universes, I played "store" with my cousins.
For "breathin'," she exchanges the upside down universes and dark treks in the wilderness for an unlikely star: her pet pig.
It is human beings, or animals, or planets, or universes, or any sentient thing, believing that they can outrun their fates.
By my count, there are as many as a dozen separate cinematic universes currently in some stage of production or development.
What you get then is what theorists now call a 'multiverse'—an infinite collection of universes with different laws of nature.
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The actress Sophie Turner is part of two of the biggest pop-culture universes — three if you count the Jonas Brothers.
It is still cryptic and still a mystery, but she clearly has an agenda and that agenda does involve parallel universes.
Alongside all that came the mainstreaming of expanded universes, a concept previously relegated to nerdy niches like comic books and fanfiction.
The box office doesn't lie: The world has embraced the fantastical universes of Marvel and DC. But not so game stories.
"I guess it has to do with how it's the rare kind of franchise where Rule 34 encompasses both the hentai (trainers) and furry (Pokemon) universes, and how the franchise is so established that I'd wager it has upward of 1000 unique characters (combining both types and all universes)," says Alain*, another fan of Pokémon porn.
Like Walt Disney and Richard Wagner, both of whom he cited as inspirations in a free-ranging conversation, he builds artistic universes.
"WM: "She can travel to alternate universes — so there's our earth, and then she can go to alternate versions of different earths.
As a prequel, it burrows into one of the most picked over, obsessed-upon, fan-fictionalized, head-canonized story universes ever built.
It appears as if Nadia and Alan have finally stopped their cycle of death for good, and have course corrected their universes.
It promised less fantasy, too: swashbuckling adventures in parallel universes with mythical creatures or talking animals were replaced with dark domestic concerns.
At first blush, it's tempting to look at Netflix's Millarworld acquisition simply through the lens of blockbuster filmmaking and expanded cinematic universes.
Two researchers from MIT have created an "AI physicist" that is able to generate theories about the physical laws of imaginary universes.
The DC and Marvel universes continue to spawn films regardless of how poorly conceived they are, simply because they make a profit.
The tech industry tends to attract a lot of the kinds of people who lose themselves in Tolkien-inspired fantasy universes anyway.
He tells her about the nature of Dust, and that he wants to continue his search for its source in other universes.
Since Pokémon Go hit the app stores, people have been wondering what other fictional universes they could be fun in augmented reality.
The series takes place in a generally realistic setting, although a few people — including Juliana — have had close encounters with other universes.
The fifth is worth it just to discover how Douglas killed off all possible versions of his characters in all possible universes.
It's a concept popularized in the long-running Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series, in addition to other science fiction universes.
As a result, he has a deep understanding of alternate universes, both virtual and real, which he plays out in his photographs.
The no-boundary wave function, for instance, favors empty universes, whereas significant matter and energy are needed to power hugeness and complexity.
The rise in two key commodities — oil and iron ore — has profound implications for the stocks of the companies in those universes.
Despite what might seem like chaos, there's a sense of order to it all, dozens of universes coexisting on a single continuum.
There's a problem with this theory, however: If heavier Higgs bosons exist in different universes, there's no possible way to observe them.
I've raced through time and space and dealt with distant universes and alternate realities, but something about this feels much more … personal.
We live in an age of tweeting grandmas and child YouTube stars, of hyper-curated Instagram universes and infinitely expanding digital literacy.
The rapper delivered a 20163-minute soliloquy on, um, hydrogen planes, alternative universes and the 13th Amendment (among LOTS of other things).
Now it's not just the world that's at stake, it's the universe, many universes, and even abstract concepts like time and death.
Putting a film from the Frozen universe in front of a Pixar original film further marries the Disney Animation and Pixar universes.
Buterin, the smarty pants that he is, just had to include other universes into the problem, making it infinitely more mind-blowing.
Are comics destined to become a valuable resource streaming media providers fight over in an attempt to create their own cinematic universes?
Though the series spans the past and present and future, and even alternate universes, its characters still don't have all the answers.
It could even become a place where creative fashion minds can not only jumpstart their careers, but build universes of their own.
As Hollywood rolls out more expanded universes and complicates the existing ones, you can expect to see a lot more of this.
So through cosmological natural selection you'd get universes whose physical properties were more and more conducive to the evolution of intelligent life.
We're used to seeing ourselves reflected through scenarios and universes that seem slightly disjointed or alien, a step removed from our own.
Even the most successful of the cinematic universes — the "Star Wars" and Marvel Comics movies — sometimes suffer from timidity and creative stagnation.
The 2016 presidential campaign and practical politics in the United States Congress have been operating in two parallel universes for months now.
Though we enjoy astonishing access to information about the world and about one another, we've elected to retreat into separate, contradictory universes.
Long before the Marvel and DC cinematic universes, "Stephen King was doing this in the pages of his books," Mr. Thomason said.
Creatures are tearing through the multiverse (a series of parallel universes in DC Comics, it's extremely complicated) collecting various incarnations of Superman.
The titular Dark Tower is gradually revealed to be an interdimensional portal that serves as the nexus of all Stephen King universes.
Multiverse theory holds that there are an infinite number of universes each containing an infinite number of variations on time, space, and location.
Sometimes, it's as if there are parallel Rihannas, in parallel universes, who are all being simultaneously viewed through the kaleidoscope of infinite time.
By mixing nothing more than paints, oil, and soap, the artists manage to create colorful miniature universes full of strange, tiny alien worlds.
Alternate political universes Democrats' short-term fate, though, rests in part on whether the party can hold onto Senate seats in Trump states.
Here at Mashable, we believe love knows no limits — not even when it comes to the boundaries of existing in different canonical universes.
The final story arc for the series saw Peter lead a team of Spider-Men from alternate universes to combat a major threat.
CNBC did a deep dive into recent sell-side research to find which trends analysts are watching for in their respective coverage universes.
As for what these bubbles are "made" of, recent work suggests that spacetime bubbles are essentially mini-universes briefly forming inside our own.
Now, the dispute is causing Wall Street analysts to take drastic measures and remove their buy ratings on stocks in their coverage universes.
CNBC did a deep dive through sell-side stock research to find companies that analysts are singling out in their respective coverage universes.
From Fury we learn that Thanos's snap "tore a hole in our dimension," causing heroes — and monsters — from other universes to enter Earth.
Contrary to how it may seem, 19093 in Hollywood is not just about sequels, prequels, reboots, and returns to the same cinematic universes.
That's partly because Adams insisted, in the spirit of someone who believed firmly in parallel universes, in telling the story differently every time.
With the X-Men rights back in Marvel's hands, though, House of M is potentially a perfect way to blend the two universes.
The DoE claims that it "doesn't explore parallel universes" and overall tried to downplay its newfound reputation as ground zero for shady science.
Hawking's 117-page dissertation "Properties of expanding universes" from 1965 sold for 13,750 pounds, well ahead of the estimate of up to 150,000.
But right now, I think there's kind of a knee jerk tendency to say, 'Oh, we're competitors,' and parallel universes are being created.
Following an initial spurt of cosmic inflation from size zero, these universes steadily expand according to Einstein's theory of gravity and space-time.
The possibilities are interminable—and could also be quite exotic, since other simulated universes could have different physical constants and laws of nature.
Fox is betting big on going small It's a common practice in Hollywood to go bigger for action movies and their shared universes.
National capitals can feel like different universes, with their own electoral and economic cycles, personalities, in-jokes, taboos, histories, myths and ideological constellations.
Superfans of celebrities often invent alternate universes where the writers themselves get to dictate the personal lives and interactions of their favorite stars.
"These are a group of people who think they are gods creating people and universes and things, and possibly killer robots," she said.
Instead it creates universes — sprawling, interlinked franchises that serve as advertisements for themselves while rewarding die-hard viewers who return again and again.
It's a different ... It's just that the two ecosystems are so different, they're bound to continue to live in their independent parallel universes.
After all, if we can never confirm the existence of parallel universes, then isn't it just metaphysics, however aesthetically pleasing it might be?
A new series set in one of their superhero universes just might be capeless, or bring in costumed crime fighters as window dressing.
The answer, of course, comes from string theory, where, he explained, it often (and controversially) comes out that there are many possible universes.
The web slinger will be the only superhero with the ability to cross between Disney and Sony's cinematic universes, according to Marvel Studios.
Spider-Man is the only hero with the superpower to cross between Sony and Marvel's cinematic universes, Mr. Feige said in a statement.
Through the allegory of the multiverse, Zapata reinterprets the extent and toll of exile on Earth, the gulf between universes of human experience.
In the age of content creators, content marketing, #sponcon, influencers, vloggers, bloggers, streaming services, cinematic universes, and binge-watching, content isn't just king.
Saturday's practice flight with a cast of only 700 birds — by turns vertiginous, majestic and faintly terrifying — evoked a series of alternate universes.
The two sides aren't just far apart on the big questions facing the West (threats from Russia, Iran, China), they're in parallel universes.
More and more movies are developed from intellectual property: already existing stories or universes or characters that have a built-in fan base.
As someone who often speculates about multiple universes and extra dimensions, Dr. Rabinovici was as far removed from current affairs as I was.
Jason Hurley: We definitely talked about old Twilight Zone episodes a lot, and also things like the Cthulhu Mythos and other shared universes.
Others see it as a selection effect: of all the universes that there could be, only those in which observers are possible get observed.
Light, joyous, yet forever committed to conceptual rigor, YMO built entire aesthetic universes from album to album that mirrored a rapidly changing creative landscape.
If you're familiar with Telltale's past forays into the comic book universes of The Walking Dead, Fables and Batman then this should look familiar.
It is using a Morningstar U.S. Target Market Exposure Index, which covers the majority of the U.S. large-cap and mid-cap stock universes.
In 20153, the physicists Frans Pretorius and Luis Lehner discovered a mechanism for producing naked singularities in hypothetical universes with five or more dimensions.
He concluded his point with a description — that fans on both sides of the debate know well — of what sets the two universes apart.
While most cinematic universes use invented worlds, there's nothing to stop Universal from using fictional takes on real event to build a shared continuity.
"With the X-Men comics, there are a lot of alt universes, so that has allowed me some leeway," showrunner Noah Hawley told Variety.
Finally, after some years, they produced "the Egg," a pod that could actually pierce the veil between parallel universes, enabling travel to other dimensions.
Although the X-Men franchise kicked off the current wave of superhero movies, it was the MCU that started the craze for shared universes.
They conjectured in the Journal of High Energy Physics that space-time itself is a code—in anti-de Sitter (AdS) universes, at least.
The idea of multiple universes, or multiverses, is a highly speculative and contentious one, and many experts view it with a very jaundiced eye.
Nintendo announced its next two mobile games would be based on the Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing universes, and will come out this fall.
Granted, every Marvel movie comes with built-in buzz — the studio's cinematic strategy of linking universes and plots throughout different films guarantees as much.
" 'Different universes' A year ago, Republican presidential candidate Trump pushed back at Hillary Clinton's characterization of him as a supporter of the "alt-right.
Following a fall tour with METZ and Toronto's Dilly Dally, Big Ups have announced the release of their sophomore LP, Before a Million Universes.
The "Brand Universes" of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton supports the widely-held beliefs about the profiles and demographics of the two candidates' supporters.
Clinton's and Mr. Trump's voters do not just have different opinions but occupy different psychic universes, operating under different definitions of qualification and character.
"Star Trek" is one of the most beloved universes in pop culture history (it's up there with "Star Wars" and the Marvel Cinematic Universe).
The different political universes were also put on full display with this week's White House meeting between Trump and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.
In this line of imagination, the music might manifest other worlds; organisms, biospheres, universes, the same way algorithms are dictating our actual reality today.
This office — squat, angular and sun-dappled one recent cool Autumn morning — is unique in that it contains an infinite collection of parallel universes.
The pieces look almost like still frames in animated worlds, bits and pieces of universes the viewer is just seeing for a brief moment.
I'm a girl who loves both Star Trek and Star Wars, and can talk to you for hours about the DC and Marvel universes.
At a time when pop culture is defined by universes, she's part of two of the biggest — three if you count the Jonas Brothers.
Both The Leftovers and Fargo take place in universes where some force beyond understanding makes itself known in sometimes cruel and sometimes compassionate ways.
In the movie business, that means a glut of reboots and adaptations, sequels and spinoffs, and eventually, shared universes built on well-known properties.
This young woman's eyes radiated a sparkling kindness, like two universes gazing out from some impossibly vast and infinite space hidden behind her face.
This failure to adapt is blamed in part on America's size and geography, in which parallel universes can exist in urban and rural areas.
D. Wong) and Angela Moss (Portia Doubleday) seemed to envision alternate universes, while the tormented hero, Elliot (Rami Malek), resumed his baroque existential struggles.
They're usually used to show that our lives are meaningless specks in a vast but ultimately indifferent collection of universes and ever-splintering timelines.
The theory of "quantum gravity," which is still not fully formulated, describes such a continuous creation of universes with random properties and initial conditions.
Seen from up close, the delicate striations on the belly of Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin (to pick one example) reveal mini-universes.
The field is called mirror symmetry, in reference to the fact that these two seemingly distant mathematical universes appear somehow to reflect each other exactly.
The writer and filmmaker was a master at constructing very cool sci-fi universes — emphasis on the science — not too far off from our own.
We've seen these sorts of cinematic universes with comics and science fiction, but this has the potential to become another bit thing like those properties.
Once again, I am living in the parallel financial universes of my youth; and now history is repeating itself as my children live that too.
And then there are the various tantalizing teases about alternative and mirror universes that the show has thrown around over the course of the season.
And it brings up questions about what kind of crossovers — and movie universes — are truly satisfying, and which ones are just about a cash grab.
I admit, "Properties of expanding universes" remains an important piece of cosmological work, and, as a 24 year old, I was thrilled with its reception.
What's exciting to me is that not only can we now see that there are these separate worlds, but also we can see across universes.
In recent years, it's commissioned shorter works from authors like John Scalzi as well as original books set in the Alien and X-Files universes.
A House of M film could even acknowledge that its characters have been living in separate universes that have been brought together by her powers.
But what's really interesting is how intertextuality is now used in a world of movies dominated by sequels and adaptations and remakes and shared universes.
With virtual reality and expanded universes enjoying a resurgence, now is as a good a time as any for the series to make its return.
Many of his pieces echo the look of pixel art, and he has created artworks paying homage to popular geek universes such as Mario Bros.
We have music films now – hell, Lemonade was nearly an hour long – and we've got artists creating 360 degree virtual reality universes for their albums.
Hawking's 1965 Cambridge University thesis, "Properties of Expanding Universes," sold for 584,750 pounds, more than three times its pre-sale estimate, in the online auction.
A group of artists celebrated some of the biggest Oscar-nominated movies by reimagining them in different film, TV, video game and comic book universes.
Imgur user Diablien uploaded a collection of 10 alternative posters for Oscar-nominated movies featuring characters from other universes and new titles to fit them.
On the physics side, it remains to be seen whether de Sitter universes like ours can be described holographically, in terms of qubits and codes.
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Already, we know the intersection of these two men feels viscerally wrong; it's as if they live in different galaxies, or entirely different parallel universes.
With ever-changing themes about different universes and all sorts of official, exclusive collectibles waiting in each box, Loot Crate is, in a word, awesome.
While splitting his time between NYC, Milan, and Tokyo, he takes sublime joy in uprooting mundane objects and making them fit into his imaginary universes.
The story spans multiple universes, including the land of the dead, and wrestles with faith, skepticism, religious tyranny, scientific inquiry and the nature of consciousness.
In addition to those two juggernaut cinematic universes, the service will host the House of Mouses' many franchises, including Pixar films and National Geographic programs.
Around a year after the launch, Amazon began recruiting established authors with their own universes outside of the original licensed properties to join Kindle Worlds.
Long hours, sweating, freezing, waiting — interminable waiting — building fictional worlds between set-ups, universes held together with comedy, populated with unlikely idiots with bizarre motivations.
Because of a nefarious plan involving a super collider by the movie's villain, Kingpin, Morales eventually learns that there are multiple parallel universes in existence.
As Fantastic Beasts is the first installment of a reported five-film franchise(?!), it looks as though the Harry Potter universes truly has no limits.
"This requires making use of the quantum language to describe everything, including all possible types of universes that are born in the multiverse," Loeb told Gizmodo.
Researchers don't know why these constants have such arbitrary values, and some have suggested that there may be many universes in which these values can differ.
In universes like our own, which is closer to a "de Sitter" (dS) geometry, the only boundary is the infinite future, essentially the end of time.
The researchers found that universes only seemed to make sense when particles were affected by gravity less than they were by at least one other force.
Having watched the phenomenal "Avengers: Endgame" this weekend (no spoilers here), I did take a moment to think about parallel universes and the concept of time.
Rather than hit us over the head with a story or a song, they give us building blocks to create universes and worlds of our own.
Marvel and DC have scored financial successes with their respective comic-book universes, Lucasfilm's Star Wars franchise is chugging along at full speed, and Warner Bros.
And there's an a even bigger problem: bouncing universes require forward moving time with decreasing entropy, and as we said before, entropy always increases with time.
"It's a version of the multiverse theory, but the difference here is that the parent universe can be high entropy," with low entropy universes sprouting off.
I'm not die-hard by any means but I would equate the Nintendo universe with the Disney, DC, or Marvel universes in terms of cultural significance.
For that reason, Dr Deutsch has long maintained that a quantum computer would serve as proof positive of universes beyond the known: the "many-worlds interpretation".
Whatever one may think about headgear for girls of eight or below, the participants in the argument appear to live in different cultural and ethical universes.
Its sequel, The Fractured But Whole, riffs on yet another present-day pop culture icon: comic book superheroes and the cinematic universes that they dwell in.
Certainly the premise that international and Chinese metal markets were two separate universes just waiting for someone like HKEx to connect them may have been questionable.
The two had a very long, wide-ranging conversation that touched on electric planes, multiple universes, and fancy watches—until Rogan whipped out a fat blunt.
In a video on Netflix's YouTube channel, Nye fact-checks Mr. Clark's explanation of parallel universes, conceding that he "brings up some fascinating points," Uproxx reports.
The biggest video games tend to fall into one of a few different genres: there are the huge fantasy epics, and the vast sci-fi universes.
After all, half the fun of building a small supercomputer that can simulate entire universes is decking it out in glowing lights and swooping chrome accents.
Her novels include Little Universes, I'll Meet You There, Bad Romance, as well as the Dark Caravan fantasy series: Exquisite Captive, Blood Passage, and Freedom's Slave.
Host Meredith Vieira will talk to authors, actors, and other celebrities on major literary topics, ranging from heroes, monsters, identity and the magic of imagined universes.
This comes after Doctor Manhattan states that "Nothing ever ends," which now can be viewed as a dark comment on the unending nature of cinematic universes.
The show became something bizarre as it moved beyond the scope of the novel and grew to encompass mysterious cults, possible parallel universes, and much more.
The universes she conjures skate between science fiction-like dystopia and an all-too-familiar present reality saturated by bad news, selfish people and endless memes.
Valente creates a detailed comic book world, peopled with analogues to both the Marvel and DC universes — and she gives its dead women their voices back.
When it feels as if entire universes exist between the real world and me, I call Anita, because I know she has felt that way, too.
Podcasts, as Jamie Lauren Keiles wrote last year in The New York Times Magazine, have given rise to fan universes once reserved for popular TV shows.
Disney has already lined up shows from the "Star Wars" and Marvel universes for the service, positioning itself as a major competitor for streaming behemoth Netflix.
At best, he's minimally helpful — and that's an extremely worrisome development considering that villains tend to get bigger and badder as superhero cinematic universes are expanded.
And Zarcone's woozy art brings to life haunting other universes — seen when Loma-as-Megan lives her high school life — that are impossibly and delightfully strange.
I am enjoying the movies and TV programs and still have, in my home, big, colorful encyclopedias of both superhero universes that have definitely been well worn.
As you might expect, these texts regularly describe popular characters having sex with each other, ones from other fictional universes, or even versions of the authors themselves.
We want to have power over our decisions; we want autonomy and independence; we want free will; we want to be the master of our own universes.
Carlip believes it's possible that over time, the expanding areas of spacetime each replicate the complicated structure, and are themselves filled with tiny universes at every point.
The newest trailer for Netflix's Maniac confirms Emma Stone and Jonah Hill aren't revisiting their Superbad days—but they are jumping around to plenty of other universes.
Anyone can download and read Stephen Hawking's 1966 doctoral thesis "Properties of expanding universes" now that the scientist has given permission for it to be open access.
I am noticing that a lot of shows are moving toward building more costumes and creating these really cool universes, and very specific looks to their shows.
The Man in the High Castle's early episodes offered a similarly ambiguous take on its alternate universes, treating the possibility of other worlds as comforting but enigmatic.
In one company, an engineer and a driver have completely different day-to-day experiences—as well as salaries that may as well exist in alternate universes.
But it's far more than that: the studio is a master at building universes, and Blizzard wants Overwatch to be the beginning of an entirely new one.
Sanders and his supporters have a critical, powerful and potentially decisive role to play in this battle of alternate universes that will be decided on Election Day.
Final Fantasy takes place across various fictional universes, wherein even the rules of physics don't apply, and yet Cloud must protect Aerith, Zidane Garnet and Tidus Yuna.
Though it might seem the two hearings were taking place in separate universes, the truth is that the work of this committee is more relevant than ever.
Both are run by nerds, and hold galas where the respective wonks from both parallel universes can convene and try to impress each other with obscure facts.
At the time, for some reason I can't really explain, I thought that the game was about the Final Fantasy collective universes taking over the Disney ones.
Ms. Robbie plays a waitress in an unnamed metropolis that looks a lot like the neon-lit, dystopian universes of the "Blade Runner" and "Sin City" films.
That these are a group of people who think they are creating, you know, they are gods creating people and universes and things, and possibly killer robots.
Today's book by science writer Zeeya Merali, "A Big Bang in a Little Room: The Quest to Create New Universes," definitely falls into the "must read" category.
In Berlin this season, several new productions take on sprawling literary works, trimming them to manageable lengths while still capturing the thrill of their vast, imaginary universes.
One possibility, entertained by a number of leading physicists, is that there are lots of universes, the so-called multiverse, with very different properties and initial conditions.
There are virtually an infinite number of possible universes with different Higgs masses, but only one that has the capability of a evolving into stars, planets, us.
Star Wars is a space odyssey, which gives its creators the ability to spawn parallel plotlines or universes that don't have to tie into the original story.
Episode 11 of Mr. Robot's final season had one last attempted hack, so we discussed [SPOILERS, obvs] rubber duckies, Stuxnet, text/graphics games, parallel universes, and more.
Mr. Trump compares two fundamentally different universes of plans: all the plans on the individual market in 2013 and those only on the federal exchange in 2017.
"We can directly test that gravitational waves and light travel through identical universes, and we find that they both see the usual 3 + 1 dimensions," Holz said.
The story involves the convergence of spider-somethings from alternate universes, including Spider-Ham (John Mulaney), a Spider-Woman (Hailee Steinfeld) and Spider-Man Noir (Nicolas Cage).
But as we found out in our WIRED Book Club conversation with the author, Leckie takes a far less structured approach when it comes to creating new universes.
Perhaps that's how our universe formed, and perhaps there are an infinite number of universes forming in the same way, decaying out of an infinitely inflating grander universe.
Some think more of these incidents have occurred since CERN was established, and suggest that its particle physics experiments are causing the world to shift into parallel universes.
While Oracle and Google are two of Silicon Valley's most notable stalwarts, separated by just 13 miles on Highway 101, they are universes apart from a cultural perspective.
Fans finally get a chance to display their affection and admiration for some of the most famous characters in sci-fi, gaming, and the DC and Marvel universes.
The Phoenix is basically the LeBron James of psionic, cosmic forces; he gives Jean great power, and helps her repair a nexus of universes called the M'Kraan Crystal.
He grew up moving back and forth between Mexico and the US and would spend his free time making up characters and creating fictional universes though his drawings.
CNBC did a deep dive through sell-side stock research since the trade war escalated to find companies that analysts are singling out in their respective coverage universes.
The film, directed by Bob Perischetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman, captures the sprawling interconnectivity of comic-book universes in a way that no other feature film has.
It echoes larger moves made by Warner Brothers and Disney, when they purchased the two largest comics publishers, DC and Marvel, respectively, cementing their own cinematic comics universes.
Or the character who exists across various alternate universes and timelines as a frustrated alien bureaucrat, an old-timey mobster, or an omnipotent flying dog with a sword.
There are already too many interconnected movies these days; too many cinematic universes, when what the world really needs is more films that can stand on their own.
Watch below: Redd's impression seems a little far flung until you remember that Kanye quite literally met with the president to discuss alternate universes and iPlanes last week.
Post-1977, science fiction movies and TV shows tend to suggest early and often that there's much more to their universes than we might ever get to see.
In it, he excitedly discusses the existence of parallel universes and promises that science has now made it possible to "exploit" these alternate realities to "enhance" our own.
Researchers have worked out the math showing how the hologram arises in toy universes that possess a fisheye space-time geometry known as "anti-de Sitter" (AdS) space.
Coming about a year after Morrowind, it was part of the ushering in of large, hand-built video game universes that players could explore and get lost in.
News that the University of Cambridge made Stephen Hawking's seminal doctoral thesis (on how universes expand) publicly available sent positive shockwaves out to physics fans around the world.
There's nothing more fun than connecting two television universes with each other — especially when we don't notice that there is more than one thread connecting two standout shows.
The Adult Swim series, which follows aging scientist Rick Sanchez from Earth dimension C-137 in adventures across infinite universes, is more sexually charged than your average cartoon.
His best songs exist in universes unto themselves, spaces separate from the musical world around him: the prevailing sounds of the day, the would-be contemporaries and rivals.
On Monday, the University of Cambridge in the U.K. announced it would post Hawking's thesis "Properties of expanding universes" for free to anyone through its Open Access repository.
In short, the Spider-Verse is kind of a loose name for all the different Spider-Men and Spider-Women from all the different alternate universes in Marvel.
There appear to be two parallel universes of Democratic voters this season — one disproportionately older, the other disproportionately younger — whose habits make them almost invisible to each other.
Melee benefit from famous characters and universes, and inspire die-hard communities willing to do whatever it takes to support a game well beyond its sell-by date.
We don't expect major characters to die in our favorite universes because corporations are inherently cowardly, and secretly, fans don't actually want to see their onscreen crushes die.
If things work out for him and perhaps a few more of his fellow rookies, they, too, will one day be dunking dictators, masters of their own universes.
That is the first mistake Xia Tian (Yang Mi) makes in "Reset" as she tries to balance her life with her work: opening a wormhole to parallel universes.
The lack of L.G.B.T.Q.+ characters in over 22 films creates entire universes where L.G.B.T.Q.+ people are seemingly nonexistent, a statistic that does not mirror reality in the slightest.
Little did I know that shared universes, canonical reconfigurations, and a near-worship of lore continuity would go on the dominate the next 20 years of media production.
New York (CNN Business)In the Trump age we often talk about "alternative universes" of information -- about the administration, about impeachment, about the economy, about pretty much everything.
The 22 stories featured are all stand-alones, though several are set in pre-existing fictional universes: Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch is here, as is Neal Asher's Polity.
The real treat, though, is heading down to the Point Loma tide pools and exploring these mini-universes, hiking along the cliffs and taking in the Pacific vistas.
According to Entertainment Weekly, the plot will apparently be split between two parallel universes, following OA in her new world and the other characters in the old one.
She can manipulate energies and mess with gravity, and she can probably open a hole to other universes (which may come in handy during Avengers: Endgame, don't you think?).
People look for bubble universes early in the history of our universe, and perhaps suggestions that we can see it in the cold spots that would make them detectable.
Luckily for the writers, multiple universes are easy to get away with on a magical show — the Halliwells themselves did a lot of parallel universe hopping in their day.
Layered on top of this left-right politics, the new open-closed sort makes for a more complicated map: multiple political universes, each with its own law of physics.
After a series of mishaps, her Nintendo memorabilia collection is merged with some invading Rabbids, smashing the two universes together in a strange new version of the Mushroom Kingdom.
The novels follows Roland Deschain (aka the Gunslinger), through a fantastic feudal society, as he quests to discover the Dark Tower, which is said to connect various universes together.
Playing those video games made me realize that's the other side of the coin: the distance we can put between ourselves and the things we do in fictional universes.
Around here we know "super" pairs best with sci-fi, and this week we brought you a comprehensive guide to the best sporting events of your favorite fictional universes.
It's the peanut-butter-in-chocolate of worldbuilding: The creative minds at Lucasfilm know how to build cinematic universes; Disney's Imagineering team knows how to construct fantastical lands IRL.
Hawking and Hartle argued that indeed it would—that universes with no boundaries will tend to be huge, breathtakingly smooth, impressively flat, and expanding, just like the actual cosmos.
Here's the gist: Reed Richards and a small group of similarly gifted (and morally compromised) genius superheroes are trying to stop the collapse of the many universes of Marvel.
From licensed figures to rad apparel and even new games, every Loot Gaming box contains a secret selection of merch related to your favorite universes, both classic and new.
He explained how parallel worlds coexist in the same space and time as our own universe and how he thought he had another life in one of those universes.
A more serious flaw, perhaps, is that infinite universes produce a certain moral carelessness, a criticism of popularized multiverse theories that has also been heard in the scientific community.
Regardless of the product quality, our branded cinematic universes seem too big to fail, and it's hard to imagine how or why their producers might be forced to quit.
The mania for expanded universes and spinoff franchises has engulfed Hollywood's big studios in recent years, and it threatens to ruin their ability to tell clear and definitive stories.
Until then though, consider all the amazing shit that's come from them—all the new universes its allowed us to access, the ways they've rewired us for the better.
It has also become the envy of Hollywood, with rival studios racing to create their own expanded universes, but often with mixed results (like last year's abysmal "Justice League").
For instance: It is currently theorized that our universe is part of a multiverse containing an infinite number of other universes, and presumably an infinite number of intelligent observers.
I have been thinking a lot about multiverse theory, the idea that there are infinite universes running parallel to our own where we are playing out our infinite lives.
For other physicists, the idea of other universes is an epistemological absurdum, a dead end of unprovable speculation and a betrayal of the Einsteinian dream of a unique cosmos.
"Remarkably little theoretical physics is done today that doesn't build on Polchinski's work," said Dr. Bousso, who collaborated with him on string theory calculations of the number of universes.
As the painting's title, "Due Universi" (2004), suggests, the two speckled white circles surrounded by monochromatic bands propose that reality is composed of multiple universes, inner and outer worlds.
In fact, they have the ability to create other universes, not to stay and linger and loiter in the cemetery of this one, but they do because they're nostalgic.
They also reworked most of our clues, I suspect to make the puzzle a bit easier for those lacking intimate knowledge of the Star Wars, Marvel, and Wendy Universes.
A possibly relevant connection: The award-winning "Take on Me" video is about a man and a woman who find each other even though they're confined to alternate universes.
Its creator, the artist Lena Herzog, calls it "an oratorio for vanishing voices, collapsing universes and a falling tree" — as good a classification as any for an unclassifiable work.
Call it "alternative universes," blame "alternative facts," cite the "A to Z" scale -- the upshot is the media and its audience are being dragged into this uncharted territory together.
It means being immersed in fabulous universes; testing your reflexes against an imaginary opponent; interacting with friends, acquaintances, and strangers in strange environments; and solving complex, near-impossible puzzles.
"They come from very different universes," said Antonia Ferrier, a former top aide to Mr. McConnell who also worked in the House for the Republican leader John A. Boehner.
Entire synthetic universes are home to millions: Viral video games like Fortnite are now gathering places, replicating some of the rules of the real world and inventing new ones.
These days, hardly a month goes by without a major superhero release, and studios are betting their entire future on an ever-growing number of comic book movie universes.
This process involves an intermingling of quantum mechanics and Einstein's equations of general relativity, leading to speculation that some patches of the cosmos produce an infinite number of universes, i.e.
That's the one where, in the red/green ball case, there are actually two universes, one where I saw the red ball and one where I saw the green ball.
Remakes like this also speak to an old stigma against animation (that clearly looks like animation) as being for children, which has been at play in superhero universes as well.
But, for all the praise and admiration I received for "Properties of expanding universes," I met equal amounts of quizzical, even antagonistic bewilderment for "Where Bugs Go In Winter (Hell)".
Imaginary Worlds is a podcast that takes a deep dive into the world of science fiction and fantasy — both the people who create them and the fictional universes they design.
At a time when meticulously interconnected cinematic universes are in vogue (think Star Wars or the Marvel Cinematic Universe), X-Men's complete disregard for continuity seems quaint, bizarre, even maddening.
Diablo is now one of Blizzard's biggest games, a gothic world that stands alongside the universes of StarCraft and WarCraft as one of the publisher's three multi-million selling franchises.
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He has a discussion with Lana Lang, a close friend of both Clarks in each of their respective universes, about whether her Clark can even be brought back to life.
One of these universes could be an alternate version of our own universe, and it's possible that Mewtwo may have traveled to the talking animal universe through an Ultra Wormhole.
Ever since, we tracked two parallel and occasionally overlapping universes—the online postings of "traditional" hate groups, like the KKK and neo-Nazis and the burgeoning online activities of terrorists.
Following the success of Activision's Skylanders, Disney Infinity first launched in 2013, and was followed by a pair of sequels that introduced characters from the Marvel and Star Wars universes.
The piece draws on principle concepts within the realm Euclidean geometry and quantum physics—particularly string theory, which suggests that our universe is one part of many parallel existent universes.
These episodes explore future scenarios both distant and very close, from parallel universes to global warming; plenty of stars show up, from Bryan Cranston to Steve Buscemi to Janelle Monáe.
The tonal range of the genre extends yet further, into worlds that feel not only intricate, but grounded — imaginary universes that are every bit as fanciful, but feel less so.
A bidder also spent more than $760,000 — more than double the expectation — on Dr. Hawking's signed 1965 Ph.D. thesis, "Properties of Expanding Universes," about the origins of time and space.
And perhaps most importantly, the report compares two fundamentally different universes of plans: those in the entire individual market in 2013 and those only in the federal exchange in 2017.
This appealed to me as a novelist, a person who is constantly conjuring up universes where they previously hadn't existed, even as I felt a nervous energy around the decision.
Using machine learning, the program is able to generate complex virtual universes that predict the behavior of large-scale structures, according to an October 2019 study in The Astrophysical Journal.
The series will have its protagonist, Lyra, exploring multiple universes as she tries to prevent more children from being kidnapped and figure out who — or what — is behind it all.
Alongside Professor Thomas Hertog of Belgium's KU Leuven University, Hawking also proposed a way in which scientists might be able to find alternate universes by using probes on space ships.
As in the comics, superheroes live in multiple separate universes but can visit each other in times of great need, like when ratings are down or during a holiday hiatus.
Newt Gingrich and Megyn Kelly got into an explosive debate on Fox News Tuesday night as two parallel universes within the Republican Party collided in real time on live television.
Hawking and Loeb are trying to peel back through the conjectured mathematical infinity, and show which kinds of universes can pop into existence and which may be able to harbor observers.
Though likely not actually a hint at an impending invasion of an alien race, or connected universes, we like to think the StarCraft reference was an intentional nod to StarCraft regardless.
While the rest of Hollywood is aping the Marvel method — creating movies that exist, in part, to establish spinoffs and sequels in never-ending fictional universes — Rogue One is shamelessly standalone.
VR Goggles producing alternate universes; Pikachus sending people off of cliffs… Our screens are taking us places we've never been before, and in certain cases places we'd never want to go.
Bringing on Payne and McKay — both of whom have extensively worked in other, existing universes — to develop the show is a solid next step in bringing the show closer to reality.
Visual Suspect writes:Inspired by the Allegory of the Cave from Plato, till today's quantum physics and multi universes theories, a visual essay about perception and knowledge as reflection of our reality.
Sean says he's into "Star Wars," both the DC and Marvel Universes ... and was once so star-struck by Stan Lee that he almost caused a traffic accident to meet him.
But Infinity definitely paved the way for people to understand that there are ways to accomplish these universes coming together into one game, but still keeping each franchise true to itself.
If the dominant histories are two locations on a map, megacities in the realm of all possible quantum mechanical universes, the question is which path we should take through the terrain.
In this sense, printed media acts like a near limitless archive to the artist just like the Internet is to everyone else, populated by innumerable universes to be explored and manipulated.
The pamphlet claimed that the group started when two scientists from Princeton University moved into the abandoned town and eventually made "The Egg," which allowed people to travel to alternate universes.
Rob Edelman, a lecturer at the University at Albany, recommended first focusing on making a single, self-contained, enjoyable movie before worrying about sequels and prequels, much less about cinematic universes.
One thing that was not controversial, though, was the belief that it was a harbinger, the thin edge of the AR wedge, only the first of many crossover games and universes.
Before that, he was a physicist working on data acquisition and computer controls at European particle accelerator CERN, where scientists explore the fundamental laws of nature that create and destroy universes.
I am excited to be a part of the new generation of designers who think on a more global level, who accept diversity and play with different universes all the time.
Few artists have navigated the parallel universes of pop and electronic music with as much success — or as little interest in the spotlight — as this Norwegian producer, born Magnus August Hoiberg.
"Wonder Woman," though, resists the reflexive power-worship that drags so many superhero movies — from the Marvel as well as the DC universes — into the mire of pseudo-Nietzschean adolescent posturing.
The narrative of "Lanark" unfolds out of order — it begins with Book Three — and the focus shifts between the parallel universes of postwar Glasgow and a futuristic, hellish universe called Unthank.
In his previous films, Lanthimos has created worlds that are maybe two universes off from ours — similar in many ways, but with some cruel twist that makes them very different indeed.
"I think if they [modders] get in there and they just start disassembling it, they will end up creating parallel universes; like genuinely that's what would happen," Murray said in 2014.
By contrast, Fringe (another recent television show that explored interdimensionality) had more sweeping ambitions that ultimately bogged down the show in meticulous discussions of the fraying politics between its two parallel universes.
Nolan: We're just about at that uncomfortable moment in which we'll be able to create universes fully inhabited by nearly-AI creatures who will do our bidding and satisfy our every appetite.
While Emmert is aiming toward conversational fluency in High Valyrian, her priority is still on French and Spanish — the languages that allow her to travel the world, not just TV show universes.
The MCU could've hit the reset button after Endgame, as superhero comics so often do to avoid over-complicated universes and to start over with new stories about the same old characters.
Telltale Games, the developer behind episodic games based on The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, and Batman universes, will release the first episode for a Guardians of the Galaxy game this year.
That doesn't have to happen, but in this age of constantly expanding fanboy franchise universes, the temptation to just keep feeding the beast the meal it already likes eventually becomes too tempting.
It's got a cast of characters who all seem to occupy their own zany universes, and the show has an interest in insightful conversations about important issues affecting the American working class.
They are operating in wholly separate universes, each armed with its own sets of facts, fomented by a White House–led war on the media and amplified by easily weaponized social platforms.
Some of the most interesting glimpses into superhero universes have taken place from less conventional perspectives, from the gumshoe detectives of Gotham Central to the blue-collar construction workers of Damage Control.
And even if the mission succeeds, the team may well end up destroying a supposed reality-hopping machine without confirming whether it functioned and without finding evidence that alternate universes are real.
Right before he died, Stephen Hawking submitted his final paper that might lay out the math needed to prove the existence of other universes — as well as how ours might fade out.
He devotes only a brief passage to the Orwellian echoes in Donald Trump's presidency: the lies that warp reality, the obsolescence of facts, the divergent information universes of Fox News and CNN.
We will not be creating baby universes anytime soon, but scientists in all areas of research must feel able to freely articulate the implications of their work without concern for causing offence.
Disney owns a handful of titanically successful IP universes—Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars, not to mention Mickey and the gang—and soon a distribution channel to pump them into people's homes.
He explained to me that after a downturn in the late 90s, Lego embraced licensing deals that led to sets from the Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Frozen universes appearing on shelves.
Cage clearly has a vision for his universes, but his storylines frequently overlook the quieter, everyday strengths of smaller human moments and overshadow them with dramatically inert and breathtakingly inexplicable narrative turns.
Bank of America called the smart city theme "one of the biggest investible universes" as technology and data transform everything from urban transportation to city security to temperature control in office buildings.
Redd's West ranted about alternate universes, the murder rate in Chicago and the Unabomber, and said that he "flew" to the meeting using the power of his "Make America Great Again" hat.
They inhabit different universes — Ethan freely admits to her that his work has been described as "one step above catalogs and fortune cookies," while Olivia's model is the French novelist Marguerite Duras.
She has been a master of creating her own universes to get lost in since 2012, when she released the weird, sample-heavy mixtape Drunken Babble that she self-produced at 17.
The Marvel and DC universes, for example, are full of Easter eggs and other incidental details that are less about moving the story forward than about adding dimension for its own sake.
The celebrated film critic Pauline Kael once wrote that movies function as escape pods, portals to parallel universes that can be radically different from emotional norms and societal conditioning of our own.
"It was interesting to see the energy in the room change," said Steven Sapp, who is a member of Universes, along with his wife, Mildred Ruiz-Sapp, and her brother William Ruiz.
But even though Amazon reverted the rights back to authors, those like Talty couldn&apost exactly keep writing the stories she had written in Kindle Worlds because the universes belonged to others.
The Australian comedy duo the Umbilical Brothers, made up of Shane Dundas and David Collins, fuse mime, slapstick and stand-up for inventive, fast-paced performances that exist in their own universes.
Empress of Forever Where Blake Crouch's last book, Dark Matter, offered an action-packed take on alternate universes, Recursion (as the name might suggest) is a similarly action-packed time travel romp.
It should be noted that the HBO series and Doomsday Clock coexist separate and apart from each other, in different fictional universes, despite in theory both emerging from the same starting point.
Last night, the "Arrowverse" expanded yet another notch with the premiere of Legends of Tomorrow—and in doing so, furthered what is already one of the most interesting hero universes in pop culture*.
"Theory" is sort of a misnomer—it's more like an overarching mathematical framework from which scientists can derive theories about our universe as well as a mind-boggling number of other permitted universes.
BC: The theory of inflation, our best theory of what happened before the Big Bang, may be pointing towards the idea that there are multiple Big Bangs and multiple universes that are created.
Before his death on March 14, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking was deep in thought about the possibility of universes that exist well beyond our own — places with completely unknown galaxies, stars, and planets.
The Tommy Westphall Universe imagines an empire built from cheesy TV crossovers, while Sean Howe's book about Marvel Comics chronicles the behind-the-scenes tumult involved in creating the first shared superhero universes.
If it happens, this series would be the latest of several expanded television universes from DC. Before this was The CW's Arrowverse, which includes Arrow, Batwoman, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, and Supergirl.
Like other shared universes, the Conjuring franchise has been diversified across a number of namesake properties, which offer more opportunities for spin-offs, but also insulates the larger franchise from a single failure.
She is also the creative liaison to ILMxLAB, where she helps ensure the immersive augmented and virtual experiences the studio creates also blend in with the larger creative universes within which they reside.
These 20 portraits not only show 20 alternate universes but also confirm the characters we know we'll be seeing again in the final six episodes (because with Game Of Thrones, you never know).
I thanked the man, flipped back into the sea and swam back to the flat rock where my companion was staring at the sky, as if interrogating its blue immensity for parallel universes.
If any number of equally real universes exist in which Hitler worked out his aggressions by playing clockwork video games, why get so upset about the unfortunate outcome of his career in ours?
The other camp, itself aligned with Professor David Deutsch's ideas presented in The Beginning of Infinity, sees the sheer number of possible permutations a quantum computer can traverse as evidence of parallel universes.
As I learned in China last week, U.S. and European companies are being seriously out-smarted while China's Big Tech rivals compete to pull traditional retail businesses into their exclusive, online corporate universes.
Hong's tongue-in-cheek illustrations celebrate the places Disney cartoons have earned in modern culture—but they also highlight the naiveté that permeates the innocent, nostalgia-inducing universes us kids grew up with.
Still Processing This week, we discuss "A Wrinkle in Time," Ava DuVernay's attempt to take the audience on a magical adventure with Meg Murray as she searches for her father through multiple universes.
Her work has included a photo series contrasting pictures of a rotting rabbit with those of cancer cells, and images of semen and breast milk that, seen up close, look like starry universes.
The stars of the 2009 documentary "Trust Us, This Is All Made Up," Mr. Jagodowski and Mr. Pasquesi are masters at slowly building characters and establishing complete, multilayered universes in 50-minute sets.
Rachel Maddow has appeared as herself — the unmistakable, quirky, intelligent liberal political commentator made famous by MSNBC — in a handful of television universes, including 30 Rock and Ugly Betty to House of Cards.
The series, an eerie hybrid of "Sliding Doors" and "Groundhog Day" that flirts with the notion of alternate universes, casts Nadia as a software developer who adroitly dodges every Silicon Valley sartorial cliché.
The Walking Dead debuted five years ago this week, and it's striking how it arguably remains unsurpassed despite a legion of imitators from the same studio, spanning all manner of universes and licenses.
When multiple versions of Spider-Man (voiced by Jake Johnson, Nicolas Cage, Hailee Steinfeld, and more) are pulled from other universes, they try to show Miles what it means to be a hero.
There are celestial bodies Kanye probes with a GoPro, parallel universes with TLOP's "Feedback" and Yeezus's "I'm In It," and the gravitational pull of Kanye himself proving that indeed everything revolves around him.
The issue becomes that immersive parks like Pandora and Wizarding World are very specific kinds of beasts, conceptually based upon visiting exotic worlds and universes, and not every property is suited to the approach.
"The movie meant a lot to us and I was so glad that he now shares my passion for the greatest superhero in all the known universes," he said he wrote in the letter.
This paper creates a "coherent testable scientific framework," said Hertog, which will guide scientists on their quest to find evidence of other universes, something that currently only exists in the realm of science fiction.
Then again, all of the cast members — who also include David Patrick Kelly, Mary Wiseman and Jeff Still as friends (lord knows why) of the Raquin family — seem to belong to different theatrical universes.
The general election in 2015 and the Brexit vote in 2016 saw the emergence of different political universes: metropolitans in the big cities and university towns, nativists in the post-industrial towns and countryside.
I encourage you to peruse the full list, because it's looking more and more like this will be the make-it-or-break-it year for our current cinematic marketplace of franchises and universes.
Successful shows are the ones where creators used to telling 10-minute stories are able to deftly switch to telling 30-minute stories, evolving the universes of their series to grow along the way.
Avoiding big risks is how we end up with summers crammed full of sequels, reboots, and attempts to launch "franchises" or "universes" just because that's how Marvel and Disney are making millions of dollars.
Some models of the Big Bang theory predict that the inflation that stretched space at the beginning of time also produced an infinite number of "pocket universes," separated by impassable inflated areas of space.
Somehow, though, the reasonable and just expansion of these universes to include the kinds of people who never used get past the turbolift doors has made a vocal slice of fandom lose its mind.
Nor will it have any connection to the rebooted series of Star Trek films that debuted in 2009 (officially dubbed the "Kelvin Timeline"), as Discovery and the rebooted films essentially exist in different universes.
Because there are infinite universes with infinite versions of Rick and Morty, there are possibly Ricks and Mortys out there who fuck even harder and weirder than the Rick and Morty we're familiar with.
"An alchemist of the electronic, a real composer who takes us into curious universes... We paired him with Max Richter, rather classical but a real digital artist who has worked with Woodkid," Jaton said.
These mysterious Ultra Wormholes, formed by specific Legendary Pokémon and perhaps sometimes opened through other means, can be used to travel to Ultra Space, a sort of interdimensional space with paths to other universes.
As they fight to preserve their roles as the universe's legendary defenders, the series' shortest and darkest season yet sees the team venture to vast, unfamiliar universes where they must face dangerous new challenges.
Instead of dreamy young schoolgirls adorning pint-size Victorian mansions, today's miniaturists are creating perfect parallel universes in the vein of the Thorne Miniature Rooms on permanent exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Cinematic universes weren't really a thing back then, and as good as Iron Man was, there was no reason to assume that this particular series would have the staying power to make that happen.
As the story progresses, Stefan gets pulled deeper into the mystery of what happened to "Bandersnatch" author Jerome F. Davies, a mystery that eventually involves parallel universes, government conspiracies and Stefan's own family tragedy.
They have that something that allows them to be at the center of their own universes without some grand outside conflict always having to move things forward (which to be fair, has happened often).
Political and social justice activists in particular are taking an interest in her work for the way it intertwines themes of racism, misogyny and class struggles with alien abduction, time travel and parallel universes.
Journalists have played their part in reinforcing the divergent views of the standoff, our correspondent writes, in a look at the parallel universes of supporters and opponents of Catalan independence in the Spanish media.
But this is a whole other beast, with some of the most nuanced takes on tech and its societal effects, in between jokes about Ass Universes and the tragic tale of Mr. Poopy Butthole.
It's no longer enough to just to make a successful movie or series; a successful studio needs to own IP that could fuel cinematic universes, TV shows, theme parks, toys, games and more, indefinitely.
Drawing on elements from Spidey's comic book origins and pulling in a variety of styles to represent the different universes that are merging together, it expresses itself in such delightfully fun and colorful ways.
He also happens to be the only hero with the superpower to cross cinematic universes, so as Sony continues to develop their own Spidey-verse, you never know what surprises the future might hold.
But it could easily be applied to the brooding fictional universes forged by any of the writing sisters (Anne is the third) and the very real, isolated environment in which they lived and worked.
And yet the two artists seem to operate in separate universes, a distinction made clear through Ammer's connection of Gironcoli to Duchamp, their equation of art and life and their suspicion of self-expression.
And in their latest venture Spider Man: Into the Spider-Verse they went as far using the quantum physics theory of parallel universes to make room for new spider people that aren't just white men.
The ambitious series introduced a number of elements now taken for granted as a part of Marvel lore – including the idea of the multiverse, in which alternate versions of Marvel characters exist in different universes.
In this era of shared universes, of course there's a narrative link to the earlier films – the ringleader in 83 is Sandra Bullock's Debbie Ocean, sister of George Clooney's character from the Steven Soderbergh movies.
Thor's response to this revelation is to destroy Asgard and start over, and for a whole four months it was one of the most radical sentiments ever put forward by one of these cinematic universes.
Dick earned a reputation as a prolific storyteller who often explored themes of authority, alternate universes, and the uncertain state of reality, and this show looks like it really captures the spirit of those stories.
It will cost $6.99 a month, or $69.99 a year, and allow users to stream much-loved material from its archives as well as original content hooked to the Pixar, Marvel and "Star Wars" universes.
The Dark Tower universe essentially ties all of King's universes together; characters from the Dark Tower appear in other books, and characters throughout his fiction move between the worlds held in place by the Tower.
By now you may have seen them: Breathless headlines flowing through the viral ether declaring that a new study has found the "first" evidence that we live in just one of many different parallel universes.
There may not be a ton of evidence to support the idea that we live in just one of many universes, but it's not exactly easy to study the earliest moments of our cosmic homeland.
The premise is hilariously ironic, since the show's "Vindicators 3: The Return of the Worldender" Season 3 episode was a cynical take down of the franchise war cash grabs of the Marvel/DC extended universes.
Episode 4 of AHS: Apocalypse explored a number of its own universes—including an unexpected visit to Season 5's Hotel Cortez—but it also seemed to borrow a lot from J.K. Rowling's wizarding world.
The host asked the former Bachelorette, Bachelor in Paradise, Bachelor, and Dancing With The Stars contestant (he was sadly booted off during week seven) if he will be reentering any reality show universes anytime soon.
Some of these nonsensical weapons play small roles in the movies they inhabit, while others, like these, have become cultural touchstones; serving as symbols of the fictional universes they inhabit and the fandoms they inspire.
When he wakes up, he's surrounded by people in hazmat suits, and his entire life is gone: he isn't a college professor, isn't married, and works on a top secret project dealing with multiple universes.
Culture has become a commodity that the audience is invited to purchase—and, given the way in which cultural objects are serialized, franchised, and spun off into expanded universes, the purchase is an ongoing investment.
The story unfolds over generations, including different universes and timelines of the same generations, and folds in everything from religion to bronies to Hussie himself, who serves as a punchline as well as a player.
Hawking spent his life exploring the universe's deepest mysteries and advancing sophisticated frameworks to explain its most elusive phenomena, such as black holes, alternate universes, and the tenuous future of life on Earth and elsewhere.
And in recent years, they've moved beyond the sequels and trilogies we've grown used to and into sprawling, multi-movie universes featuring interlinked characters and storylines, often planned by committee and scheduled years in advance.
They will tell you that it could explain, for example, why quantum computers (which admittedly don't yet quite exist) could be so powerful: They would delegate the work to their alter egos in other universes.
Over years, a bad guy would destroy most of these alternate comic universes, and after lots of big fights, the rest would merge into one single universe, one storyline, with one new past and present.
That's something I continue to look for in movies, particularly animated ones; while Pixar continues to craft living, breathing universes for its stories, Toy Story's remains the one I feel as though I know best.
Sonically you can hear several different universes: from early Crystal Castles through the lounge music of Brigitte Bardot and even bits of the King Krule album The Ooz, all combining to make something brand new.
"Although somewhat different from our own, such universes remain potentially habitable," the study's authors write in the paper accepted for publication by the journal Physical Review D (and dug up by Lisa Grossman for Science News).
Among the items sold were his motorized red leather wheelchair and a copy of his doctoral thesis Properties of Expanding Universes—one of five known copies—which sold for 2387,2402 pounds ($26,2250) and 28,2157 ($2503,2250) respectively.
Physicist Sean Carroll from CalTech thought the new paper was interesting, but he happens to like the already-strange many worlds theory, that says different results manifest in different universes described under the same probabilistic description.
The work on the Deep Space 9 documentary, though, is a labor of love and he remains appreciative of what the Star Trek universe (yes, it was a universe before franchises had universes) has given him.
Disney+ is a targeted streaming service; it's going to be programming big, mass-market original series from the Marvel and Star Wars universes, but it's also going to ensure those series are suitable for family audiences.
What you see out of this is what we know anecdotally, that people live in very cloistered separate universes, our little echo chambers within themselves, so that they don't even see the world the same way.
On its own, Disney+ will cost $6.99 per month, and it will include a big chunk of the Disney-Fox content library, as well as new shows set in the Star Wars and Marvel universes. 2.
In a world where cinematic universes have struggled to reimagine some of literature's classic icons, including this summer's abysmal The Mummy, The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter is the monster mashup that we really need.
How the universes connect was not explained in the film's first chunk (not even Peter seems to fully know), but this miraculous reappearance is Miles' (and our) first glimpse into this world(s)'s vast complexity.
Now on at Klein Sun Gallery in New York City, the show features a number of multimedia works that dig into the media-saturated world that actively encourages self-created universes through technology and social media.
We live inside of something that we call a universe, but we are not quite sure what it is, where it came from, what its future holds, or if there's more universes like (or unlike) it.
But, even with the shock ending of Infinity War, the tone of these movies has always been broad and good-natured, in contrast, for instance, to the sheer oppressiveness of DC's botched attempts at cinematic universes.
Ideally we would observe stock prices in parallel universes with identical economic conditions, with a single exception: In one, Mr. Trump has a good shot at becoming president, while in the other, his chances are low.
The established intellectual property and universes that media companies like Disney and WarnerMedia have been stockpiling could be a crutch in streaming, which requires a steady supply of fresh programming for different audiences, according to Sarandos.
It's possible, in the sense that in an infinite set of universes literally everything is possible, that I landed in an alt in which AccuSpackle is, by coincidence, one of the basic elements of the world.
Same if you can understand why the spore drive is no longer instantaneous, which is the entire point of the thing, or why the Terran's bad faith use of the mycelium network would effect other universes.
Paul Begala: Pulled punches, no knockouts The dystopian show "The Man in the High Castle" depicts two parallel universes: one in which the Germans and Japanese won World War II, and one where the Allies did.
"Spider-Man … happens to be the only hero with the superpower to cross cinematic universes," Feige said, "so as Sony continues to develop their own Spidey-verse, you never know what surprises the future might hold."
In addition to crossing over existing Arrowverse shows, the TV crisis will absorb a bunch of other universes by featuring actors playing their characters from long-gone DC-based shows like Smallville and Birds of Prey.
Stranger Things "You wouldn't think that a show that involves Demogorgons and upside down parallel universes wouldn't tug on the 'ole heart strings, but Netflix's "Stranger Things" does just that," writes CNN media writer Frank Pallotta.
It's not music that'll send you to the stratosphere, it's stuff that'll allow you to focus on yourself amidst the swaying bodies around you, and allow you access the many universes that live inside you already.
But these companies have monopoly control of their own mobile universes, and they have used that power to set up virtual tollbooths that suck billions of dollars a year out of the pockets of smaller competitors.
Titled "Holographic Universes and the Dialectic of Simulacral Non-Events," and essentially full of crap start to finish, the piece was initially taken seriously, not least because the publication in question isn't really known for parody.
It's beyond easy to put on one of these shows and wind up, at the end of four hours, horizontal on a couch, half-watching and half-living in the outlandish-yet-relatable realities of their universes.
Though critics gave Blade middling reviews, fans loved the film and, in many ways, its box office success paved the way for the multiple expansive cinematic superhero universes we're all contending with today, for better or worse.
But if you were paying attention earlier when Stamets was talking to Lorca, you'd have noticed that they were talking technobabble about how Stamets' previous jumps had mapped out what appeared to be portals to parallel universes.
This certainly wouldn't be out of character for the Star Trek franchise, which has long been obsessed with mirror universes and alternate timelines; heck, the whole rebooted J.J. Abrams movie franchise is set in an alternate universe.
I hope that they have these images now and that they're able to build their own worlds and their own universes and expand on what they would like to do, because the fact is, we deserve it.
Cinema Blend interviewed Arrival concept artist Peter Konig today, and he gave them a glimpse at a number of alternate universes — his other designs for Arrival's aliens, the heptapods, show all the worlds that might have been.
The SoFi blended large- and mid-cap universes are to be sorted based on four growth factors, including trailing and forward sales or earnings and rebalanced quarterly, not annually as is the case with many index funds.
On our third day, though, the trip... Diablo is now one of Blizzard's biggest games, a gothic world that stands alongside the universes of StarCraft and WarCraft as one of the publisher's three multi-million selling franchises.
The idea is to offer a new standard for tokenized investment vehicles that will bridge the gap between fiat and crypto universes by creating a way for asset managers to create and manage legally compliant tokenized funds.
The performance was staged in conjunction with Reusable Universes: Shih Chieh Huang, a single-room exhibition for which the artist has assembled marine cyborgs from Tupperware, LED automotive "angel eye" headlights, polyethylene terephthalate bottles, and other materials.
In theory, supporters of both have access to all manner of countervailing reports and opinion; in practice, many Putinistas and Trump supporters move in discrete informational universes, defined by state-controlled television and right-wing radio respectively.
From here, the novel unfurls ingeniously to reveal how events play out for its characters in alternative universes ("version control" being a software developer's system for keeping track of alternative and developing versions of files and programs).
According to the Many World Theory, what happens when you open the box is that the universe splits into two universes; one in which the cat is alive, and a second universe in which it is dead.
These are the worlds of modern-era Batman, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, and so many other contemporary pop culture properties — universes in which cruelty is a given and social systems are destined to betray or disappoint.
It's interested in parallel universes, but only insofar as it can use them to examine deeper issues of identity, the many masks we wear in different situations to portray ourselves as the people we wish we were.
In 1999, he and Dr. Bousso set out to see if string theory could supply enough different possible universes to ensure a reasonable chance of one having a cosmological constant as small as what had been measured.
Following Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry through parallel universes and an intense theological hunt/coming-of-age story, His Dark Materials would be a stunning TV show full of witches, armored polar bears, daemons and fantastical creatures.
Now, the first episode of FLCL: Progressive, for which production company Production I.G brought on a whole new writing and directing staff, promises to flesh out one of anime's most enigmatic universes, and I'm pumped as hell.
But this month's release of Wonder Woman allowed her to shine in her own starring role directed by Patty Jenkins, the first woman to direct a feature film for either DC or Marvel's current, ongoing superhero universes.
Both Rocketman and Bohemian Rhapsody were directed by Dexter Fletcher, and he revealed in a new interview that he nearly collided cinematic universes by calling on actor Rami Malek to reprise his role as Freddie Mercury in Rocketman.
It's too overwhelming to process every person as the center of a full blown universe of their own invention, so we just give them a nickname-y specialty store in our own secret universes and keep them there.
That's the ultimate pull, and promise, of mass culture — that the most powerful thing isn't an infinity stone or a dragon, but our mad, marvelous love for the creative universes they let us share, for a little while. ●
Bright has the budget of a Hollywood blockbuster, and a fantasy setting that could be a good fit for an episodic film franchise, given what has traditionally done well with fans in terms of big-budget cinematic universes.
Maybe that's because it leans heavily on a select few fan-favorite universes — whichmakes it feel like the core Avengers are being dropped into Black Panther, Thor, and Guardians of the Galaxy, rather than the other way around.
In a time when we're obsessed with super-connected cinematic universes, Jackson's Lord of the Rings are the perfect reminder that however hard we try, these stories can't be engineered, and that sometimes, the experience is just magical.
The most critically-acclaimed episode of Rick and Morty's third season, "The Ricklantis Mix-Up ," takes place in the Citadel of Ricks, the gathering place of Ricks and Mortys from all the different parallel universes in the cosmos.
Getting into superhero comics published by Marvel and DC can be laborious since both companies have mythological universes they've been adding information to for many decades, but this Vision comic is self-contained and easy to get into.
If further, more detailed, analysis of CMB data proves this to be the case then the Cold Spot might be taken as the first evidence for the multiverse – and billions of other universes may exist like our own.
The hope was that the sum of all possible "expansion histories," smooth-bottomed universes of all different shapes and sizes, would yield a wave function that gives a high probability to a huge, smooth, flat universe like ours.
On the bright side for the scientific community, thousands of Pittsburgh natives will spend the offseason collaborating on a machine that allows us to travel through time and witness occurrences in parallel universes if Tampa wins Game 7.
The show started with a 4400-style premise (people mysteriously vanishing and returning with inexplicable abilities) and threw in alternate universes, synchronized tai-chi that could open transdimensional portals, haunted houses, the Russian mob, and a telepathic octopus.
The music she's been making over the last half-decade—first as E+E, and more recently under her own name—has largely followed in this lane, drawing lines between dots that seem to be in different universes.
Physicists can only explain the discrepancy by assuming that the value of Einstein's constant is random across all potential universes; we live in one with the right amount of dark energy to allow stars and galaxies to form.
The work on counting universes arose from an effort to understand a fudge factor known as the cosmological constant, an antigravitational force associated with empty space that Einstein invented in 1917 to explain why the universe was stable.

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