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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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34:20

Where Are We?

The Multiverse Employee Handbook ·

2026/01/27

An exploration of humanity's most straightforward question that turns out not to be straightforward at all: where are we?🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM We examine why the Big Bang wasn't an explosion from a point in space but rather the expansion of space itself—happening everywhere simultaneously—which makes asking "where did it occur?" a conceptually broken question. We discover why every observer in the universe legitimately sees themselves at the

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37:55

Artemis II

The Multiverse Employee Handbook ·

2026/01/20

An exploration of Artemis II—humanity's first crewed return to lunar space in over fifty years, launching February 2026. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM Four astronauts will spend ten days proving we can safely get to the Moon and back without landing, because apparently fifty years is enough time for a civilization to completely forget how to do something it supposedly mastered in 1969. We examine why returning to the Moon required rebuilding everything

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31:25

GPS: How the Military Built Your Fitness Tracker

The Multiverse Employee Handbook ·

2026/01/13

An exploration of how GPS evolved from $12 billion military infrastructure designed to guide nuclear missiles into the civilian technology that tracks your morning jog, navigates your pizza delivery, and ensures you're never more than 200 metres from an argument about which restaurant to visit.🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM When a young project manager at Macro Improbability Solutions suggests in 1993 that satellite positioning might be useful for

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32:40

Aliens Are Probably Boring (And That’s the Real Problem)

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2026/01/06

A look at the Fermi Paradox, the Great Silence, and the unsettling possibility that advanced civilizations evolve into something indistinguishable from accounting software. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM We explore why the galaxy should be teeming with aliens—the math practically insists on it—yet we've detected profound, statistically improbable silence for seventy years. From the Drake Equation's optimistic predictions to the Great Filter's darker

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30:39

2025 As a Mathematical Concept

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2025/12/30

As 2025 draws to a close, we're examining 2025 as a number—ignoring the arbitrary calendar to explore its mathematical properties.🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM It's 45 squared, the sum of the first nine cubes, and simultaneously triangular and square. Unlike revolutionary constants like π or e, 2025 achieves significance through structural perfection—it's the reliable example that demonstrates principles without complications. We'll explore why

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48:21

The End of the ISS (and What Comes After)

The Multiverse Employee Handbook ·

2025/12/23

The International Space Station—humanity's most ambitious construction project and longest-running orbital flatshare—is scheduled for retirement in 2030.🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM After twenty-five years of continuous occupation, 290 visitors from 26 countries, and over 4,000 experiments, the 420-ton station will make a controlled descent to Point Nemo, the spacecraft cemetery in the South Pacific. But what comes next? We explore the $843 million

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36:55

That “Lost” Asteroid That Might Hit Earth

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2025/12/17

In 2007, astronomers spotted a 54-million-ton asteroid, tracked it for just 1.2 days, and then lost it.🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM Those 29 hours of observation were enough to calculate 89 potential Earth impact dates—but not enough to tell us if any of them are real. Join us as we explore humanity's cosmic inventory problem: from "lost" asteroids like 2007 FT3, to the football-field-sized rock that arrived with same-day notice in 2019, to how we've

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28:29

A Brief History of Humans Yelling Into Space: The...

The Multiverse Employee Handbook ·

2025/11/18

This week marks fifty-one years since humanity’s most enthusiastic “Hello” to the cosmos — a three-minute binary broadcast known as the Arecibo Message.🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM In this episode, The Multiverse Employee Handbook explores what happens when a species armed with optimism, megawatts, and questionable messaging strategy decides to introduce itself to the universe. From the jungle hills of Puerto Rico to the far reaches of M13, we unravel

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19:35

Bonus: Close Encounters of the Third Kind

The Multiverse Employee Handbook ·

2025/11/14

November 15th, 2025 marks forty-eight years since the release of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the film that turned alien contact into a musical duet and made communication itself the star of the show. In this special bonus episode, The Multiverse Employee Handbook celebrates Spielberg’s luminous masterpiece — the five-note conversation that redefined science fiction, inspired generations of scientists, and reminded us that the universe might just be trying to say hello.🎧 Love the show? Help

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36:26

Your Quantum Startup Kit Has Arrived

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2025/11/11

In "Your Quantum Startup Kit Has Arrived," we explore quantum mechanics—the operating system running everything from atoms to stars—starting with superposition, where particles genuinely exist in multiple states simultaneously until measured, with probabilities fundamental to nature rather than gaps in knowledge. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM We dive deep into the double-slit experiment, the elegant proof that particles explore every possible path at once,

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28:42

What 3I/ATLAS Taught Us About the Galaxy—and Ourselves

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2025/11/04

When an interstellar comet drifts through our Solar System, the scientists study it—and the Square-Haired Boss throws it a welcome party with no cake, no funding, and no guest. From the desks of Quantum Improbability Solutions, we explore what 3I/ATLAS revealed to the James Webb Space Telescope, and what it accidentally taught us about the galaxy, deep time, and our own cosmic paperwork.🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM AI Transparency: In a universe of

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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

The Multiverse Employee Handbook ·

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?

The Multiverse Employee Handbook ·

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?

The Multiverse Employee Handbook ·

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?

The Multiverse Employee Handbook ·

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

The Multiverse Employee Handbook ·

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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