Tape shows how physicist predicted parallel worlds

From The Guardian, Nov. 26, 2007

The only known recordings of a brilliant physicist who predicted the existence of parallel universes have been found in the basement of his rock star son's flat.

The tapes document how Hugh Everett, a quantum physicist, developed his idea at the age of 24, while a graduate student at Princeton University in 1957. Everett's theory gave rise to the concept of a multitude of universes, or a "multiverse", where all life's possibilities play out. It means that somewhere Elvis is still rocking, the Nazis won the second world war and England qualified for Euro 2008.

Full article here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/nov/26/usnews.sciencenews?gusrc=rss&feed=media

There is a bio on Hugh Everett in the December issue of Scientific American
magazine, but it is not free online:

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-many-worlds-of-hugh-everett