On November 6, 2024, the day after Donald Trump’s election victory, “the term ‘darkest timeline’ trended in Google searches, and several physicists posted musings on social media about whether we were actually in it.” So wrote George Musser in Scientific American a few days later. Maybe the multiverse is real, and we all just drew the short straw. “Somewhere out there in the great beyond,” he asks, “might there be a parallel world in which Kamala Harris electorally triumphed instead?”
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