Aficionados of the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory may recall an episode from early in the series in which one of the main characters, Leonard, struggles in his effort to assess his budding romance with another primary character, Penny. Leonard eventually decides to use the famous thought experiment of Austrian-Irish physicist Erwin Schrödinger -- commonly known as “Schrödinger’s Cat” -- to explain the paradox created when particles interact and the “wave function” created by the interaction has not yet collapsed into reality. According to Schrodinger, the cat could be both alive and dead while the experiment was being conducted, its actual state not revealed until the experiment was concluded. Much debate has occurred to explain this paradox, one of which holds that the multiple truths involved could lead to alternate realities, a “multiverse” in which every possible outcome actually comes to pass, which naturally challenges the...(Read Full Article)