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On Sunday night, Tar won the OscarThe popular name for the Academy Awards, referring to the gold-plated statuette of a medieval knight given to winners. for Best Picture. The actress Cate Blanchett made an amazing speech while thousands cheered.

Of course, this is not what happened. It was Everything Everywhere All at Once that won Best Picture. Michelle Yeoh, the lead actress, became the first Asian woman to win Best Actress.

But if you have watched Everything Everywhere All At Once, you might believe that there is a universeEverything. Including all of time and space and its contents. where Tar won.

The film is based on the idea of a multiverse. People who believe in the multiverse say there are many different versionsDifferent forms of the same thing. of the world. In each world, we live different versions of our lives.

Many think that every time we make a choice, there is a different universe in which we make a different choice. For example, you may have chosen to study history in this world, but in another world you chose geography.

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Some say choices make them worried. They fear they make the wrong choices.

So, for some people, the multiverse is a helpful idea. If you choose not to do something, it is not that it will never happen. It is just that it will happen for a different version of you in a different universe.

Yes! Strange as it may seem, scientists think the multiverse could be real. Some think that is very exciting news.

No! Other experts say there is no way that we can prove whether the multiverse is true or not. But just because it could exist, it does not mean that it does exist.