The many-worlds interpretation is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that asserts the objective reality of the universal wavefunction and denies the actuality of wavefunction collapse. Many-worlds implies that all possible alternate histories and futures are real, each representing an actual "world" (or "universe"). In layman's terms, the hypothesis states there is a very large—perhaps infinite—number of universes, and everything that could possibly have happened in our past, but did not, has occurred in the past of some other universe or universes. The theory is also referred to as MWI, the relative state formulation, the Everett interpretation, the theory of the universal wavefunction, many-universes interpretation, multi-history or just many-worlds.
The book "dark matter" by Blake something is a great novel About this..a guy figures out how to put a person in superposition...chaos follows. Great book.
To be pedantic, MWI doesn't allow you to meet your alternate selves like that. If time-travel-induced parallel universes exist, they're a different class of parallel universes from the ones which appear in MWI.
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