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PBS Space Time
Does Life Need a Multiverse to Exist?
Season 5
Episode 39
Life exists in our universe. There we go - one hopefully uncontroversial statement. Therefore our universe is capable of producing and supporting life. How am I going? Two for two? Let’s try for three: therefore there are countless universes. Hmmm. Did I break my streak?
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