Dave Evans

It's not as big as it used to be because we had bigger ones now.

But this one's pretty good.

It still runs.

And I can put you in the tube and fire you to the end of the accelerator.

It's two miles long.

And by the time you get to the end, you're going 99.999% the speed of light, at which point you will experience the multiverse.

And you can have as many lives as you want simultaneously.

You could be the astronaut and the ballerina and the stay-at-home mom and whatever you want.

And you'll know about all the universes at the same time.

And then we ask, I said, on the count of three, one, two, three, tell me how many lives you want.

I go one, two, three, and people go everywhere from one, the really bored, burned out guy, to infinity.

But on average, seven.

Seven or eight is the average.

Seven or eight.

People want eight lives.

And I go, well, that just proves our theory.

There's more than one life in you.

If you could have all those lives, wouldn't it be cool?

Well, and particularly now, I tell my students, don't you hope five, ten years from now you're doing a job that hasn't even been invented yet?

I mean, do you really want to constrain yourself to, I'm just going to be this computer scientist or I'm just going to be this economist or something?