In a special collaboration, the Paley Center for Media presented the American premiere screening of Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives. In this poignant documentary, Mark Oliver Everett, creative force behind the indie rock band “Eels,” embarks on a personal journey to understand the astounding contribution that his reclusive father Hugh Everett made to physics — a theory of parallel worlds.
Following the screening, Everett was joined by theoretical physicists Michio Kaku and Max Tegmark, and physicist/moderator Brian Cox, to explore why — fifty years later — his father’s work is now gaining wider acceptance. This program was presented in partnership with NOVA, which broadcast the film on PBS in the fall of 2008.
