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Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
''Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives'' is a British Academy of Film and Television Arts, BAFTA-winning television documentary broadcast in 2007 on BBC Scotland and BBC Four, in which American rock musician Mark Oliver Everett talks with physicists and the former colleagues of his father—Hugh Everett III, Hugh Everett—about his father's many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. The documentary was shot and directed by Louise Lockwood and edited by Folko Boermans. The American premiere screening was at the 2008 inaugural World Science Festival in New York City. The documentary was shown in full before each concert during the 2008 world tour of Eels (band), Eels. A petition was started to persuade the BBC to issue the documentary on DVD. ''Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives'' was broadcast in the United States on the Public Broadcasting Service, PBS program ''Nova (American TV series), Nova'' on 21 October 2008. The US version of the documentary features American voice actor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Tegmark
Max Erik Tegmark (born 5 May 1967) is a Swedish-American physicist, machine learning researcher and author. He is best known for his book ''Life 3.0'' about what the world might look like as artificial intelligence continues to improve. Tegmark is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the president of the Future of Life Institute. Early life Tegmark was born in Sweden to Karin Tegmark and American-born professor of mathematics Harold S. Shapiro. While in high school, he and a friend created and sold a word processor written in pure machine code for the Swedish eight-bit computer ABC 80, and a 3D Tetris-like game called Frac. Tegmark left Sweden in 1990 after receiving his Master of Science in Engineering, M.S.E in engineering physics from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Arts, B.A. in economics the previous year at the Stockholm School of Economics. His first academic venture beyond Scandinavia brought him to California, where he stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |