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The Multiverse Employee Handbook

The Multiverse Employee Handbook is a science comedy podcast where workplace humor meets cosmic exploration. From quantum mechanics explained through staff meetings to space history through annual reviews, we decode scientific mysteries through corporate metaphors. Each episode combines rigorous science with absurdist office scenarios, whether exploring the strange physics of black holes or the equally baffling logic of expense reports. Perfect for curious minds who suspect their workplace might

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All Episodes

43:09

Alpha Centauri: That Neighbour You’ve Never Met

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2025/10/28

Explore the Alpha Centauri system—our nearest stellar neighbors at 4.37 light-years—and discover why "nearby" in cosmic terms still means impossibly far away.🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM We examine a triple-star system humanity has emotionally invested in as Plan B, despite knowing roughly as much about it as we do about Neptune's internal policies. Learn why Proxima Centauri's "habitable zone" planet receives radiation levels that would vaporize

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22:03

Rewind: Oumuamua. Not What Astronomers Thought

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2025/10/21

Another rewind. This time, 'Oumuamua!AI Transparency: In a universe of AI-generated content, we believe in being transparent about what's human and what's not. Your time is valuable, and you deserve to know what you're experiencing. The narrator, David, is a professional voice actor who has digitized his voice through ElevenLabs' voice cloning technology and is fairly compensated for his vocal performance. Thumbnails are created with OpenArt AI, and music/sound effects come from Pixabay (which

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24:17

Rewind: Are We Living In A Simulation?

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2025/10/14

In this rewind episode from season one, we dive into Nick Bostrom's simulation argument, which suggests there are only three possibilities: advanced civilizations never develop simulation capability, they have no interest in running simulations, or we're almost certainly living in one. We'll explore how quantum mechanics looks suspiciously like efficient memory management, why the speed of light might just be a hardware limitation, and what it means when your reality's bugs are actually

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55:17

Is The Multiverse Real? Or Just Bad Science?

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2025/10/07

Join us as we explore whether the multiverse is legitimate science or elaborate excuse-making for fine-tuning problems.🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM We examine string theory's 10^500 possible configurations, eternal inflation's bubble universes, and quantum mechanics' many worlds—discovering these aren't assumptions but consequences of established physics. We investigate Occam's Razor (which cuts assumptions, not predictions), test Popperian

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39:02

Engage: The Science of the Holodeck

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2025/09/30

This week we examine the rather optimistic notion that one might construct a room capable of becoming anywhere in the universe, provided one doesn't mind the minor inconvenience of rewriting several fundamental laws of physics. The holodeck represents humanity's most ambitious attempt to make reality optional—a project that has proven marginally more challenging than anticipated. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM We explore the surprisingly complex science

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39:28

We Explain Nothing!

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2025/09/23

This week we tackle nothing—not the Seinfeld variety, but the rather more complicated scientific sort that refuses to behave properly despite centuries of reasonable requests.🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM Our investigation reveals that achieving true emptiness requires more paperwork than a government department merger, while quantum physicists have discovered that even the most aggressively vacant space remains suspiciously busy with virtual particles

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37:03

The Kardashev Scale And Other Measurements That Make...

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2025/09/16

Discover cosmic measurement scales that make ant farms look like thriving metropolises as we dive into humanity's hilariously insignificant position in the universe.🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM In this episode of The Multiverse Employee Handbook, we explore the Kardashev Scale and other cosmic humbling devices, combining civilizational energy consumption metrics with interdimensional corporate performance reviews. Whether you're a physics enthusiast or

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37:03

What is China Doing in Space?

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2025/09/09

This week, we examine China's approach to space exploration, which bears a striking resemblance to that employee who arrives fashionably late to the group project but somehow ends up with their own functioning rocket program while everyone else is still arguing about meeting schedules.🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM Discover how China transformed from "fifth nation to launch a satellite" to "the people with their own space station and a rather impressive

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38:43

The Light That Left Before You Were Born

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2025/09/02

Stargazing, if we’re honest, is just flipping through the universe’s backlog of outdated correspondence. Every speck of light is a cosmic memo delivered with the urgency of a sleepy postal clerk who’s just discovered black holes and lost interest in everything else. The night sky isn't showing you what's happening now—it's showing you what happened then, filed under Eventually by a universe that never learned to sort things by date. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes:

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01:41

Season 3 Trailer - The Multiverse Employee Handbook

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2025/08/26

Season 3 drops on September 2nd!The multiverse of employment expands once again! Season 3 of The Multiverse Employee Handbook arrives with more science history, astronomy, astrophysics, and quantum mechanics than the universe strictly requires, all delivered with our trademark cosmic indifference. We're treating the profound mysteries of existence—neutron stars, black holes, and the bewildering behavior of subatomic particles—as if they were simply another Tuesday in the grand bureaucracy of

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17:41

Our First Trip Around the Sun: A Multiverse Evaluation

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2025/08/21

In keeping with the ancient corporate rite of pretending time is a measurable thing, The Multiverse Employee Handbook presents its inaugural performance review — a dignified audit conducted over quantum tea and biscuits that are, frankly, not keeping their quantum states to themselves. We sift through a year in which reality once again outperformed the imagination department, featuring interstellar drop-ins, cosmic interns with questionable CVs, and office equipment that might be spying for another

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33:08

Einstein Was Wrong?

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2025/08/19

Join us for our last episode of season 2 as we explore how MIT's groundbreaking 2025 experiment finally settled the century-old Einstein-Bohr debate about quantum mechanics. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM Using ultracold atoms as both slits and measurement devices, Wolfgang Ketterle's team proved that wave-particle complementarity isn't just a limitation of our instruments - it's a fundamental feature of reality itself. We'll dive into Einstein's brilliant

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31:53

Fusion Propulsion: Almost Working Since Forever

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2025/08/12

Join us as we explore humanity's 70-year quest to harness controlled nuclear fusion for space propulsion, where the gap between science fiction's convenient Epstein Drive and Princeton's actual plasma physics laboratory represents the difference between cosmic elevator rides and heating deuterium to disappointment for 300 milliseconds.🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM We'll examine the Princeton Field-Reversed Configuration reactor, discover why helium-3 fuel

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33:47

A Trash Tour of the Moon

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2025/08/05

Welcome to the ultimate cosmic real estate disaster! Join us as we explore how 65 years of space exploration accidentally turned the Moon into humanity's most expensive storage unit, complete with over 200 tons of abandoned equipment, crashed spacecraft, and yes—96 bags of astronaut waste. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM In this episode, we present "The Classified Waste Assessment Initiative" - a tale of what happens when a summer intern gets the assignment

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30:53

The Great Cosmic Void: Rethinking Our Place in Space

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2025/07/29

Scientists have discovered Earth may be floating in a 2-billion-light-year-wide bubble of cosmic nothingness—the universe's equivalent of premium rural real estate that nobody wanted. This cosmic isolation might solve physics' biggest headache (the Hubble tension) while making us statistically improbable cosmic lottery winners. Meanwhile, Quantum Improbability Solutions markets this as "exclusive void living" and raises everyone's rent anyway. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes:

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41:26

Are We Close To Finding Alien Life?

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2025/07/22

Are we about to make first contact… or have aliens left us on hold for the last 50,000 years with a playlist titled “Symphony for Quasar and Dark Matter in B-flat Minor”?🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM This week, we uncover the universe’s most sophisticated hold music, decode messages about our planet’s extended warranty, and ask the big question: are we alone, or just really bad at cosmic customer service? Prepare for bureaucratic black holes,

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30:58

NASA and the Cosmic Tragedy of Apollo 18–20

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2025/07/15

Discover how trained astronauts, assembled rockets, and planned lunar bases fell victim to the most destructive force in the universe: bureaucratic entropy. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM In this episode of The Multiverse Employee Handbook, we explore the cosmic tragedy of Apollo missions 18 through 20, combining space exploration history with the peculiar art of cancelling the impossible just as it becomes inevitable. Whether you're a space enthusiast

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36:18

The Long, Strange History of Lagrange Points

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2025/07/08

Ever wondered how to achieve perfect work-life balance in the vacuum of space? Join us for humanity's most successful example of building infrastructure before knowing what it's for!🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM Join us as we explore gravitational equilibrium through the lens of corporate facilities management and cosmic real estate. In this episode, we present "The Five-Point Parking Scheme" - a tale of what happens when sales department creativity meets

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31:53

Project West Ford: The Day the U.S. Tried to Fill...

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2025/07/01

Discover the most audacious Cold War experiment ever launched: America's plan to solve communication vulnerabilities by gift-wrapping Earth in 480 million copper needles. Explore how Project West Ford's spectacular failure accidentally created modern space law, international cooperation protocols, and the template for every space debris controversy since 1963.🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM Welcome to the cosmic catastrophe that makes your worst IT

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13:42

Bonus Episode: The Strange Science of Time Crystals...

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2025/06/27

Perpetual motion machines that actually work? Welcome to the impossible physics of time crystals!https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com Join us as we explore the bizarre world of temporal physics through the lens of academic accidents and quantum corporate bureaucracy. In this special bonus episode of The Multiverse Employee Handbook, we witness Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek's 2010 classroom moment when routine lecture prep accidentally broke the laws of physics, combining cutting-edge quantum

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