The Multiverse Employee Handbook

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.

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May 12, 2026 1 min

The Multiverse Employee Handbook is taking a brief holiday. Our narrator is currently horizontal in a field outside Innsbruck, the Alps are doing their thing, and Season Four is being assembled somewhere in the quantum foam of late summer.

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Season 4 is Coming: The Universe Remains Uncooperative

The Multiverse Employee Handbook returns for a fourth season of science, satire, and the quiet suspicion that reality was written by a committee with no editorial oversight.

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March 31, 2026 34 mins

Space radiation is constant, omnidirectional, and entirely unbothered by your feelings about it.

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This week: what's actually out there, why Earth has been quietly protecting us for four billion years without asking for credit, and what happens when you leave that protection behind. Exploding stars, Van Allen's doughnuts, the surprisingly violent history of how...

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March 24, 2026 29 mins

Humanity has spent thousands of years naming constellations, building calendars, and writing mythology onto the night sky — largely ignoring the actual stars next door.

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This week, we meet the ten nearest star systems to Earth: a collection of failed stars, violent flare stars, one object colder than a freezer, and a sales territory that Brad from Quantum Impr...

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March 17, 2026 33 mins

Eleven point nine light-years away, in the constellation of a mythological sea monster, sits a star that astronomers, SETI researchers, and science fiction writers have been collectively obsessed with since 1960.

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Join us for a towel-mandatory celebration of Douglas Adams as we explore the most suspiciously significant number in the multiverse!

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In this special birthday episode, we put aside our regular corporate chaos to honor the man who taught us the importance of always knowing whe...

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March 10, 2026 34 mins

Uranus has been rolling through the solar system on its side for four and a half billion years, confidently labelled an ice giant since a single spacecraft spent six hours there in 1986 — and until very recently, nobody had particularly strong grounds to argue otherwise. Then 2025 happened.

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Gravity has been operating continuously, without maintenance, since approximately 13.8 billion years ago — and it still hasn't confirmed its own carrier particle.

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Every other fundamental force has one, but the graviton, the particle that ought to be riding gravity's Nobel Prize-winning waves, remains the most wanted and most elusive entry in the whole of fund...

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February 24, 2026 33 mins

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...

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February 17, 2026 35 mins

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...

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February 10, 2026 34 mins

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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February 3, 2026 42 mins

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...

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January 27, 2026 34 mins

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...

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January 20, 2026 37 mins

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...

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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...

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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 ...

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December 30, 2025 30 mins

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...

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December 23, 2025 48 mins

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...

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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...

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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...

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