HOW A MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHER DREAMED UP THE ‘MULTIVERSE’
he idea that our universe may be one among many has intrigued modern cosmologists for some time. But this concept might have appeared, albeit unintentionally, back in the Middle Ages. When scientists analysed a Latin text and applied modern mathematics to, which means ‘On Light’, by philosopher Robert Grosseteste – into English. They then tried to understand what he was aiming to explain, and wrote down his ideas as if they were modern mathematical equations. A team used a computer to solve these equations and to see whether they explained the universe as Grosseteste imagined it.
