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
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.
This week we tackle nothing—not the Seinfeld variety, but the rather more complicated scientific sort that refuses to behave properly despite centuries of reasonable requests.
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Our investigation reveals that achieving true emptiness requires more paperwork than a government depar...
Discover cosmic measurement scales that make ant farms look like thriving metropolises as we dive into humanity's hilariously insignificant position in the universe.
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In this episode of The Multiverse Employee Handbook, we explore the Kardashev Scale and other cosmic humbling devices, combining civilizational energy consumption metrics with interdimensional co...
This week, we examine China's approach to space exploration, which bears a striking resemblance to that employee who arrives fashionably late to the group project but somehow ends up with their own functioning rocket program while everyone else is still arguing about meeting schedules.
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Stargazing, if we’re honest, is just flipping through the universe’s backlog of outdated correspondence. Every speck of light is a cosmic memo delivered with the urgency of a sleepy postal clerk who’s just discovered black holes and lost interest in everything else. The night sky isn't showing you what's happening now—it's showing you what happened then, filed under Eventually by a universe that never learned to sort things by date...
Season 3 drops on September 2nd!
The multiverse of employment expands once again! Season 3 of The Multiverse Employee Handbook arrives with more science history, astronomy, astrophysics, and quantum mechanics than the universe strictly requires, all delivered with our trademark cosmic indifference.
We're treating the profound mysteries of existence—neutron stars, black holes, and the bewildering behavior of subatomic particles—as i...
In keeping with the ancient corporate rite of pretending time is a measurable thing, The Multiverse Employee Handbook presents its inaugural performance review — a dignified audit conducted over quantum tea and biscuits that are, frankly, not keeping their quantum states to themselves.
We sift through a year in which reality once again outperformed the imagination department, featuring interstellar drop-ins, cosmic interns with qu...
Join us for our last episode of season 2 as we explore how MIT's groundbreaking 2025 experiment finally settled the century-old Einstein-Bohr debate about quantum mechanics.
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Using ultracold atoms as both slits and measurement devices, Wolfgang Ketterle's team proved that wave-pa...
Join us as we explore humanity's 70-year quest to harness controlled nuclear fusion for space propulsion, where the gap between science fiction's convenient Epstein Drive and Princeton's actual plasma physics laboratory represents the difference between cosmic elevator rides and heating deuterium to disappointment for 300 milliseconds.
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Welcome to the ultimate cosmic real estate disaster! Join us as we explore how 65 years of space exploration accidentally turned the Moon into humanity's most expensive storage unit, complete with over 200 tons of abandoned equipment, crashed spacecraft, and yes—96 bags of astronaut waste.
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Scientists have discovered Earth may be floating in a 2-billion-light-year-wide bubble of cosmic nothingness—the universe's equivalent of premium rural real estate that nobody wanted. This cosmic isolation might solve physics' biggest headache (the Hubble tension) while making us statistically improbable cosmic lottery winners. Meanwhile, Quantum Improbability Solutions markets this as "excl...
Are we about to make first contact… or have aliens left us on hold for the last 50,000 years with a playlist titled “Symphony for Quasar and Dark Matter in B-flat Minor”?
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This week, we uncover the universe’s most sophisticated hold music, decode messages about our planet’s extended warranty, and ask the big question: are we alone, or just really bad at cosmic...
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