The Multiverse Employee Handbook
The Multiverse Employee Handbook is a science comedy podcast where workplace humor meets cosmic exploration. From quantum mechanics explained through staff meetings to space history through annual reviews, we decode scientific mysteries through corporate metaphors. Each episode combines rigorous science with absurdist office scenarios, whether exploring the strange physics of black holes or the equally baffling logic of expense reports. Perfect for curious minds who suspect their workplace might exist across multiple dimensions, we deliver astronomical insights wrapped in corporate satire. Whether you’re fascinated by the mysteries of dark matter or the inexplicable disappearance of break room snacks, our show provides genuine scientific knowledge with existential humor. Subscribe now to navigate both the cosmos and cubicle culture with equal parts wonder and skepticism! New episodes arrive every Tuesday, regardless of temporal anomalies.
Episodes
In January 1913, Cambridge mathematician G.H. Hardy received a letter from an unknown clerk in Madras containing nine pages of mathematical theorems with no proofs—just raw conclusions that seemed impossibly advanced.
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"They must be true," Hardy concluded, "because if they were not true, no one would have the imagination to invent them." Thus began one of his...
More than fifty years after Eugene Cernan left the last human bootprint in lunar regolith, the Moon has become the focal point of a new space race driven by geopolitics, commercial ambition, and the promise of water ice.
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This episode examines whether humans can actually establish permanent residence on the lunar surface, exploring NASA's Artemis programme and...
In 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope discovered something impossible: compact, mysteriously bright red objects scattered throughout the early universe, glowing far too intensely for their size and existing far too early in cosmic history.
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Space tourism has arrived—sort of—transitioning from impossible dream to technically achievable reality for the extraordinarily wealthy.
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We trace the journey from Stanley Kubrick's prophetic 1968 vision of rotating orbital hotels in 2001: A Space Odyssey through Dennis Tito's pioneering twenty-million-dollar ISS stay in 2001, the billionaire suborbital joyrid...
An exploration of humanity's most straightforward question that turns out not to be straightforward at all: where are we?
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We examine why the Big Bang wasn't an explosion from a point in space but rather the expansion of space itself—happening everywhere simultaneously—which makes asking "where did it occur?" a conceptually broken question. We discover why eve...
An exploration of Artemis II—humanity's first crewed return to lunar space in over fifty years, launching February 2026.
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Four astronauts will spend ten days proving we can safely get to the Moon and back without landing, because apparently fifty years is enough time for a civilization to completely forget how to do something it supposedly mastered in 1969. We...
An exploration of how GPS evolved from $12 billion military infrastructure designed to guide nuclear missiles into the civilian technology that tracks your morning jog, navigates your pizza delivery, and ensures you're never more than 200 metres from an argument about which restaurant to visit.
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When a young project manager at Macro Improbability Solutions sug...
A look at the Fermi Paradox, the Great Silence, and the unsettling possibility that advanced civilizations evolve into something indistinguishable from accounting software.
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We explore why the galaxy should be teeming with aliens—the math practically insists on it—yet we've detected profound, statistically improbable silence for seventy years. From the Drake ...
As 2025 draws to a close, we're examining 2025 as a number—ignoring the arbitrary calendar to explore its mathematical properties.
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It's 45 squared, the sum of the first nine cubes, and simultaneously triangular and square. Unlike revolutionary constants like π or e, 2025 achieves significance through structural perfection—it's the reliable example that demons...
The International Space Station—humanity's most ambitious construction project and longest-running orbital flatshare—is scheduled for retirement in 2030.
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After twenty-five years of continuous occupat...
In 2007, astronomers spotted a 54-million-ton asteroid, tracked it for just 1.2 days, and then lost it.
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Those 29 hours of observation were enough to calculate 89 potential Earth impact dates—but not enough to tell us if any of them are real. Join us as we explore humanity's cosmic inventory problem: from "lost" asteroids like 2007 FT3, to the football-field-s...
This week marks fifty-one years since humanity’s most enthusiastic “Hello” to the cosmos — a three-minute binary broadcast known as the Arecibo Message.
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In this episode, The Multiverse Employee Handbook explores what happens when a species armed with optimism, megawatts, and questionable messaging strategy decides to introduce itself to the universe. From the...
November 15th, 2025 marks forty-eight years since the release of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the film that turned alien contact into a musical duet and made communication itself the star of the show. In this special bonus episode, The Multiverse Employee Handbook celebrates Spielberg’s luminous masterpiece — the five-note conversation that redefined science fiction, inspired generations of scientists, and reminded us that t...
In "Your Quantum Startup Kit Has Arrived," we explore quantum mechanics—the operating system running everything from atoms to stars—starting with superposition, where particles genuinely exist in multiple states simultaneously until measured, with probabilities fundamental to nature rather than gaps in knowledge.
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We dive deep into the double-slit experiment, ...
When an interstellar comet drifts through our Solar System, the scientists study it—and the Square-Haired Boss throws it a welcome party with no cake, no funding, and no guest. From the desks of Quantum Improbability Solutions, we explore what 3I/ATLAS revealed to the James Webb Space Telescope, and what it accidentally taught us about the galaxy, deep time, and our own cosmic paperwork.
Explore the Alpha Centauri system—our nearest stellar neighbors at 4.37 light-years—and discover why "nearby" in cosmic terms still means impossibly far away.
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We examine a triple-star system humanity has emotionally invested in as Plan B, despite knowing roughly as much about it as we do about Neptune's internal policies. Learn why Proxima Centauri's "habitab...
Another rewind. This time, 'Oumuamua!
AI Transparency: In a universe of AI-generated content, we believe in being transparent about what's human and what's not. Your time is valuable, and you deserve to know what you're experiencing. The narrator, David, is a professional voice actor who has digitized his voice through ElevenLabs' voice cloning technology and is fairly compensated for his vocal performance. Thumbnails are created...
In this rewind episode from season one, we dive into Nick Bostrom's simulation argument, which suggests there are only three possibilities: advanced civilizations never develop simulation capability, they have no interest in running simulations, or we're almost certainly living in one. We'll explore how quantum mechanics looks suspiciously like efficient memory management, why the speed of l...
Join us as we explore whether the multiverse is legitimate science or elaborate excuse-making for fine-tuning problems.
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We examine string theory's 10^500 possible configurations, eternal inflation's bubble universes, and quantum mechanics' many worlds—discovering these aren't assumptions but consequences of established physics. We investigate Occam's Razor (w...
This week we examine the rather optimistic notion that one might construct a room capable of becoming anywhere in the universe, provided one doesn't mind the minor inconvenience of rewriting several fundamental laws of physics. The holodeck represents humanity's most ambitious attempt to make reality optional—a project that has proven marginally more challenging than anticipated.
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