HUNT FOR THE MULTIVERSE
Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov descends to the foot of the ladder before placing his boots into the grey dust. His words are beamed back to Earth and ring out of television and radio sets across the planet. “For my country, my people and the Marxist-Leninist way of life,” he says, as the hammer-and-sickle flag stands proudly behind him. For the first time in history human beings have finally set foot on the Moon.
If you're scratching your head knowing full well that the Soviets didn't land people on the lunar surface, this is the historical twist on which the new Apple TV drama For All Mankind rests: the Americans were beaten to the Moon, and the storyline follows the resulting fallout. Yet there's a chance that these events really did take place – just not in our universe. Many cosmologists increasingly suspect that ‘the’ universe should really be replaced with ‘our’ universe, one of many in a complex landscape of cosmoses called the multiverse.
If there are enough of them, eventually you'll end up in a universe where events repeat. In others history will be eerily similar, but with small variations such as the Soviets getting to the Moon first, you becoming US president or having three
