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“Multiverse” is a collection created by Enrico Magnani belonging to the universe cycle. Multiverse is inspired by recent theories that foresee the existence of multiple universes contemporary and parallel to our own. Quantum multiverses, as the name suggests, arise from a quantum view of reality transposed to macroscopic scales, while inflationary universes are theorized from particular dynamics that may have taken place during the big-bang.

Quantum multiverses, as the name suggests, arise from the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics (Everett, 1957), where the wave function does not collapse, but branches into orthogonal states. Quantum multiverses are one of the most fascinating ideas in modern science: an “archipelago” of parallel universes that arise from the same laws of quantum mechanics that govern electrons and atoms. According to this view, every time a quantum event occurs - such as the decay of a particle or a measurement in a laboratory - reality branches out, creating alternative versions of the cosmos. Imagine a tree whose leaves are universes with different physical laws: some might have a stronger gravity, others a different speed of light.

Inflationary multiverses are theorized from particular quantum dynamics that may have taken place during the inflationary phase of the Big Bang (10-³⁶-10-³² seconds after the singularity), when the universe underwent a ~10²⁶-fold exponential expansion. In this context, fluctuations in the inflaton field would have generated causally disconnected regions - 'bubbles' of space-time with different symmetry breaks of the fundamental forces, each characterized by its own values of the physical constants (α, G, Λ). According to the theory of eternal inflation (Linde, 1986), our observable universe would represent only a single bubble in a sea of brother-universes, separated by membranes at false vacuum energy (~10¹⁴ GeV) that prevent their interaction. Experimental verification remains elusive, but possible traces could be present in the polarization of the CMB (B modes) or in statistical anomalies in the fossil radiation.