The Secret Science Club presents a mind-blowing screening of "Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives," Tuesday, August 24 @ the Bell House, 8 pm, FREE!
Can time move backwards? Is the future different on different worlds? Are meetings of the Secret Science Club forbidden in a parallel universe? Singer-songwriter Mark Everett of the band Eels grew up not knowing that his father, Hugh Everett , was a genius —to him, his dad was the chain-smoking guy who didn’t say much at the dinner table. The fact that Hugh Everett was one of the world’s pre-eminent quantum mechanics , the physicist who came up with the Theory of Parallel Universes was just one more thing they didn’t discuss. Sadly, Hugh Everett’s theory was so revolutionary—so trippy in fact—that its elegance and importance were not recognized until well after his death. (Mark Everett was just 18 when he found his father lying dead at age 51 on the family’s couch.) Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives chronicles the journey of the musical-but-math-challenged son to learn more about his father’s profound contributions to science and the “Many Worlds” in which we all—for better or worse