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Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far out there.

We are actually living in a million parallel realities every single minute.

There are many of us thinking of one version of parallel universe theory or another. If it's all a lot of nonsense, then it's a lot of wasted effort going into this far-out idea. But if this idea is correct, it is a fantastic upheaval in our understanding.

It's hard to imagine anything more interesting than learning how we're woven into the enormous tapestry of existence. Where did our universe come from? How special is our world, and how special are we? We allocate tens of billions of dollars annually to NASA, NSF and academia in search of the answers.

My view is that you don't tell the universe what to do. The universe is how it is, and it's our job to figure it out.

We are here to make another world.

If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world.

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

It's an audacious thing to build a model of the cosmos. It's exciting how little we know.

We don't know why we are here and the context of our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's something the human mind can't really grasp. It's statistically impossible that there's not life on other planets.