The Multiverse Employee Handbook
by Robb Corrigan
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
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Wish You Were Here
The Multiverse Employee Handbook is taking a brief holiday. Our narrator is currently horizontal in a field outside Innsbruck, the Alps are doing their thing, and Season Four is being assembled somewhere in the quantum foam of late summer. We'll be back soon — with more actual science, delivered...
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Season 4 Trailer - The Multiverse Employee Handbook
Season 4 is Coming: The Universe Remains Uncooperative The Multiverse Employee Handbook returns for a fourth season of science, satire, and the quiet suspicion that reality was written by a committee with no editorial oversight. Season 4 dives deeper into the genuine absurdities of existence—the...
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Is Space Trying to Kill Us? (Radiation)
Space radiation is constant, omnidirectional, and entirely unbothered by your feelings about it. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM This week: what's actually out there, why Earth has been quietly protecting us for four billion years without asking for…
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Our Other Nearest Neighbours
Humanity has spent thousands of years naming constellations, building calendars, and writing mythology onto the night sky — largely ignoring the actual stars next door. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM This week, we meet the ten nearest star systems to...
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Is Tau Ceti Our Project Hail Mary?
Eleven point nine light-years away, in the constellation of a mythological sea monster, sits a star that astronomers, SETI researchers, and science fiction writers have been collectively obsessed with since 1960. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM In this...
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Rewind: Don’t Panic - 42 and the Cosmic Coincidences
Join us for a towel-mandatory celebration of Douglas Adams as we explore the most suspiciously significant number in the multiverse! 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM In this special birthday episode, we put aside our regular corporate chaos to honor the…
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Why The Renewed Interest in Uranus?
Uranus has been rolling through the solar system on its side for four and a half billion years, confidently labelled an ice giant since a single spacecraft spent six hours there in 1986 — and until very recently, nobody had particularly strong grounds to argue otherwise. Then 2025 happened. 🎧…
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What Happens if We Catch a Graviton? (It Changes Everything)
Gravity has been operating continuously, without maintenance, since approximately 13.8 billion years ago — and it still hasn't confirmed its own carrier particle. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM Every other fundamental force has one, but the graviton, the...
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Srinivasa Ramanujan: A Life in Numbers
In January 1913, Cambridge mathematician G.H. Hardy received a letter from an unknown clerk in Madras containing nine pages of mathematical theorems with no proofs—just raw conclusions that seemed impossibly advanced. 🎧 Did you listen? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM…
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Can We Live On the Moon?
More than fifty years after Eugene Cernan left the last human bootprint in lunar regolith, the Moon has become the focal point of a new space race driven by geopolitics, commercial ambition, and the promise of water ice. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM…
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The Red Dots At The Beginning of Time
In 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope discovered something impossible: compact, mysteriously bright red objects scattered throughout the early universe, glowing far too intensely for their size and existing far too early in cosmic history. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes:...
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Space Hotels Are Here (Sort Of)
Space tourism has arrived—sort of—transitioning from impossible dream to technically achievable reality for the extraordinarily wealthy. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM We trace the journey from Stanley Kubrick's prophetic 1968 vision of rotating orbital...
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Where Are We?
An exploration of humanity's most straightforward question that turns out not to be straightforward at all: where are we? 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM We examine why the Big Bang wasn't an explosion from a point in space but rather the expansion of…
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Artemis II
An exploration of Artemis II—humanity's first crewed return to lunar space in over fifty years, launching February 2026. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM Four astronauts will spend ten days proving we can safely get to the Moon and back without landing,...
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GPS: How the Military Built Your Fitness Tracker
An exploration of how GPS evolved from $12 billion military infrastructure designed to guide nuclear missiles into the civilian technology that tracks your morning jog, navigates your pizza delivery, and ensures you're never more than 200 metres from an argument about which restaurant to visit.…
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Aliens Are Probably Boring (And That’s the Real Problem)
A look at the Fermi Paradox, the Great Silence, and the unsettling possibility that advanced civilizations evolve into something indistinguishable from accounting software. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM We explore why the galaxy should be teeming with...
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2025 As a Mathematical Concept
As 2025 draws to a close, we're examining 2025 as a number—ignoring the arbitrary calendar to explore its mathematical properties. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM It's 45 squared, the sum of the first nine cubes, and simultaneously triangular and square....
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The End of the ISS (and What Comes After)
The International Space Station—humanity's most ambitious construction project and longest-running orbital flatshare—is scheduled for retirement in 2030. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM After twenty-five years of continuous occupation, 290 visitors from…
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That “Lost” Asteroid That Might Hit Earth
In 2007, astronomers spotted a 54-million-ton asteroid, tracked it for just 1.2 days, and then lost it. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM Those 29 hours of observation were enough to calculate 89 potential Earth impact dates—but not enough to tell us if any...
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A Brief History of Humans Yelling Into Space: The Arecibo Message
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. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM In this episode, The Multiverse Employee Handbook explores what…
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Bonus: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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...
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Your Quantum Startup Kit Has Arrived
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...
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What 3I/ATLAS Taught Us About the Galaxy—and Ourselves
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,...
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Could We Actually Travel to Alpha Centauri?
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. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM We examine a triple-star system humanity has emotionally…
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Rewind: Oumuamua. Not What Astronomers Thought
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...
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Rewind: Are We Living In A Simulation?
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...
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Is The Multiverse Real? Or Just Bad Science?
Join us as we explore whether the multiverse is legitimate science or elaborate excuse-making for fine-tuning problems. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM We examine string theory's 10^500 possible configurations, eternal inflation's bubble universes, and...
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Engage: The Science of the Holodeck
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...
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We Explain Nothing!
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. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM Our investigation reveals that achieving true...
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The Kardashev Scale And Other Measurements That Make Us Feel Small
Discover cosmic measurement scales that make ant farms look like thriving metropolises as we dive into humanity's hilariously insignificant position in the universe. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM In this episode of The Multiverse Employee Handbook, we...
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What is China Doing in Space?
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. 🎧 Love…
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The Light That Left Before You Were Born
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…
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Season 3 Trailer - The Multiverse Employee Handbook
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…
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Our First Trip Around the Sun: A Multiverse Evaluation
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...
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Einstein Was Wrong?
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. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM Using ultracold atoms as both slits and…
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Fusion Propulsion: Almost Working Since Forever
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...
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A Trash Tour of the Moon
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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The Great Cosmic Void: Rethinking Our Place in Space
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...
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Are We Close To Finding Alien Life?
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”? 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM This week, we uncover the universe’s most...
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NASA and the Cosmic Tragedy of Apollo 18–20
Discover how trained astronauts, assembled rockets, and planned lunar bases fell victim to the most destructive force in the universe: bureaucratic entropy. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM In this episode of The Multiverse Employee Handbook, we explore…
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The Long, Strange History of Lagrange Points
Ever wondered how to achieve perfect work-life balance in the vacuum of space? Join us for humanity's most successful example of building infrastructure before knowing what it's for! 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM Join us as we explore gravitational...
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Project West Ford: The Day the U.S. Tried to Fill Space with Needles
Discover the most audacious Cold War experiment ever launched: America's plan to solve communication vulnerabilities by gift-wrapping Earth in 480 million copper needles. Explore how Project West Ford's spectacular failure accidentally created modern space law, international cooperation…
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Bonus Episode: The Strange Science of Time Crystals (feat. Frank Wilczek’s Wild Idea)
Perpetual motion machines that actually work? Welcome to the impossible physics of time crystals! https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com Join us as we explore the bizarre world of temporal physics through the lens of academic accidents and quantum corporate bureaucracy. In this special bonus...
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Is Time Real - Or Just An Illusion?
Ever wondered why time flies when you're having fun but crawls during team meetings? Scientists now think your subjective experience might be revealing profound truths about quantum reality itself. Tell us what you love, what you tolerate, and what our HR department should really stop doing—take...
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This Tube of Dirt Will Take 15 Years to Get Here
The most expensive dirt delivery service in the solar system meets the universe's most unforgiving schedule. https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com Join us as we explore Mars Sample Return through the lens of interplanetary project management gone beautifully wrong. In this episode, we present…
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Dark Matter: Does It Matter? (featuring the Rubin Observatory)
From the Atacama Desert at the foot of the revolutionary Vera C. Rubin Observatory, we explore the universe's greatest cosmic mystery: why most of reality has been playing hide-and-seek for 13.8 billion years. Tell us what you love, what you tolerate, and what our HR department should really stop...
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Math is Weird
Discover why humanity's greatest intellectual achievement involves strategic symbol arrangement and existential confusion about whether "nothing" can be "something." https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com Join us as we explore humanity's 5,000-year mathematical journey through the lens of Dr....
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Part 2, The Employee Guide to Planetary Termination
The panic intensifies! We conclude our Towel Day tribute to Douglas Adams with the top four most efficient methods for planetary termination. From asteroid impacts that make dinosaur extinction look like a minor HR incident to vacuum decay events that rewrite the laws of physics faster than...
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Trailer - Part 2, The Employee Guide to Planetary Termination
Ready to add some cosmic perspective to your Memorial Day weekend? This trailer previews Tuesday's apocalypse finale, where we count down the universe's ways to delete humanity faster than you can say "So long, and thanks for all the fish." Missed Part 1? Go back and catch up on extinction...
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The Employee Guide to Planetary Termination, A Towel Day Special
Don't panic! In honor of Douglas Adams, we present the universe's most efficient methods for serving humanity an "Existence Eviction Notice." https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com From satellite debris cascades trapping us behind a barrier of our own technological waste to dark matter filaments,...
About this show
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.
Hosted by
Robb Corrigan