‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ won seven awards at the Oscars Sunday and although science fiction, the film’s plot combines two physicist-backed theories about the multiverse.
The award-winning film focuses on Evelyn Wang (played by Michelle Yeoh), who must connect with parallel universe versions of herself to prevent a powerful being from destroying the multiverse.
The multiverse is a theory that our universe may not be the only one but is one of an infinite number of parallel universes that contain infinite versions of ourselves.
The film’s creators said they pulled inspiration from the ‘many worlds’ interpretation and cosmic bubble theory when developing the
One suggests that when you decide, you split the universe in two and the other goes back to the universe forming during the Big Bang.
‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ focuses on Evelyn Wang (played by Michelle Yeoh), who must connect with parallel universe versions of herself to prevent a powerful being from destroying the multiverse
‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ won the Oscar for best motion picture, along with others for best supporting actress and actor.
The story focuses on Evelyn, a middle-aged Chinese immigrant who owns a laundromat being audited by the IRS.
She and her husband, Waymond (played by Ke Huy Quan), go to an IRS building to discuss the issue and here, Waymond is controlled by a version of himself from another world – the Alpha-Verse.
The Alpha-Verse was the first to develop technology to track the other universes’ direction and the ability to tap into the different parts of the multiverse mentally.
Waymond is remotely controlled by an alpha-Waymond and gives Evelyn a device to jump into the minds of Evelyn of other realities.
And the ability to jump through worlds was presented by Burt Goldman, a self-proclaimed spiritual master and energy healer.
Goldman created this as a self-help technique, believing people can shift their consciousness to access other realities and change their lives.
Physicist Cynthia Sue Larson has written the book ‘Quantum Jumps: An Extraordinary Science of Happiness and Prosperity.
Evelyn and her husband, Waymond (played by Ke Huy Quan), go to an IRS building to discuss the issue and here, Waymond is controlled by a version of himself from another world (pictured) – the Alpha-Verse
Larson proposes a similar idea that coincides with her ‘paradigm shift’ theory that we exist in an interconnected holographic multiverse.
While traveling through the multiverse, Evelyn comes in contact with different versions of herself, including a movie star and king fu master.
‘Everything All At Once’ was written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, who call themselves the Daniels.
In an interview with the New York Times, the Daniels reveal how the film combines the two multiverse theories.
‘It’s fun to imagine both versions,’ Kwan said. ‘Both of them are pointing toward infinity or just pointing toward the unknown.’
The ‘many worlds’ interpretation supports the idea that there are multiple versions of ourselves, which several physicists from well-known research centers, like Oxford University and MIT, created.
This interpretation proposes each event could have more than one outcome causing reality to splinter and branch off to create new universes where alternate events happen.
Evelyn is played by Michelle Yeoh (left), who won the Oscar for best actress, and Ke Huy Quan, who plays her husband, won the Oscar for best supporting actor
Max Tegmark, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a supporter of the idea, told The Washington Post: ‘I actually try to think, when I get a parking ticket, ‘Hey, there’s another version of a parallel universe where I didn’t get ticketed,’ so I can feel a bit better. And there’s another version where my car got towed.’
The cosmic bubble suggests that since the universe expanded at an extraordinary speed after the Big Bang, it created quantum fluctuations that caused separate bubble universes that developed in their own ways.
Speaking with the New York Times, the duo said the movie is less about physics and more about how physics makes you feel.
‘If you could see alternate lives, that would be — that would send you spiraling,’ Scheinert said.
‘It would send any of us kind of spiraling about, like, lives you could have led and choices you could have made.’