The idea of there being an infinite number of parallel universes is hard to imagine, not least because it means that everything that can happen will happen, and is also happening right now on another level of the multiverse. But this is just sci-fi fantasy isn’t it? The Many-Worlds theory was created in 1954 by Princeton University doctoral candidate Hugh Everett the Third.String Theory tells us that all matter and all forces have strings which dangle down to a level below the quantum level. The cold spot refers to a region of space in the radiation left over from our universe’s formation which is noticeably cooler than anywhere else.