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Build Your Own Universe

NPR: Is this a joke? No, say a bunch of physicists. One day, it may be possible for a person to create a universe!


This is not going to happen tomorrow. Not even close. But according to Columbia University physics professor Brian Greene, it is theoretically not impossible (which is his way of saying the possibilities are not zero) that one day, a person could build a universe.

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