The Multiverse Files: What Jeffrey Epstein's Documents Reveal About His Science Circle

Overview

Significant engagement with cutting-edge theoretical physics, particularly discussions about multiverse theory. These documents, spanning from 2018 to 2019, show Epstein was connected to prominent scientists, funded research initiatives, and participated in debates about fundamental questions in cosmology and consciousness.

Key Findings from the Documents

1. Lawrence Krauss and "A Universe from Nothing"

The documents include substantial excerpts from Lawrence Krauss's book "A Universe from Nothing," which explores whether our universe might be one among many in a vast multiverse. Krauss's epilogue, found in the files, discusses how the existence of a multiverse would fundamentally change our understanding of cosmic necessity versus accident.

Key philosophical question: If multiple universes exist with different physical laws, does that mean even a creator would be constrained by the requirement that at least one universe must support intelligent life capable of asking these questions?

Krauss concluded the passage with a provocative statement: "I find the possibility that in either scenario, even a seemingly omnipotent God may have no freedom in the creation of our universe, oddly satisfying. No doubt because it further suggests to me that she is probably unnecessary."

2. The "Closer to Truth" PBS Collaboration

Documents reveal that Epstein was collaborating with "Closer to Truth," a PBS television series and website focused on fundamental questions in science and philosophy. In February 2019, communications show plans to:

Interview prominent scientists about multiverse theory
Produce a major PBS series on "Breakthroughs" in mathematics and other fields
Feature specific researchers in episodes about the multiverse

One email from the series team to Epstein mentions: "We'll have 2-3 more math episodes, cut Multiverse and Rare Sentience." This suggests Epstein had direct input into the editorial direction of the programming.

3. Iourii Gribov's "Periodic Wave Guided Multiverse"

A particularly detailed document shows correspondence with physicist Iourii Gribov, who pitched his own multiverse theory to Epstein in early 2019. Gribov described his concept as potentially "a story which takes place once in 500 years—as an invitation to the 4-th Copernican Revolution."

Unlike standard multiverse theories with non-interacting bubble universes, Gribov proposed a "Periodic Wave Guided Multiverse" (PWM) featuring:

Gravitationally co-interacting sub-universes
A composite superfluid vacuum-medium theory
Matter-antimatter antigravity
Unified explanations for dark energy and dark matter

Gribov was clearly seeking Epstein's support for publication and recognition of his work.

4. The Anthropic Principle Debate

Multiple documents show extensive discussion of the anthropic principle—the idea that the universe must be compatible with the conscious life that observes it. The files contain detailed arguments about:

Whether fundamental constants are "environmental accidents" rather than necessary values
The implications of physics becoming an "environmental science"
Whether all the mysteries of particle physics could be explained by simply noting "if the Universe were any other way, we could not live in it"

This represents a fundamental tension in modern physics: Is it legitimate science to explain cosmic properties by reference to the fact that we exist to observe them?

5. AI and Virtual Worlds Research

Several documents reveal Epstein funded research into artificial general intelligence (AGI) and virtual environments, with specific references to "Multiverse" game engine technology. Projects included:

Virtual animal intelligence testing: A proposal for the "Epstein Foundation" to create customized game worlds for testing parrot intelligence using the OpenCog cognitive architecture
PetBrain simulations: Using virtual dogs in Second Life and Multiverse environments to develop AI systems
Robot simulators: Developing "massive multiplayer robot simulator" environments

These projects connected multiverse physics concepts metaphorically to virtual reality "multiverses" in game environments.

6. The Deepak Chopra-Consciousness Connection

Perhaps most surprisingly, the documents show extensive correspondence between Epstein's circle and controversial alternative medicine figure Deepak Chopra. These discussions merged multiverse physics with consciousness studies.

In one email, physicist Menas Kafatos (writing with Chopra) argued against "physicalism" and for "Consciousness is fundamental," stating: "As Planck said, you cannot get out of consciousness."

Another document quotes Chopra recounting a conversation with Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek about the nature of matter, concluding: "I ended up where I began, which is non-dualism, that there is only consciousness."

These exchanges reveal how multiverse theory was being used to bridge mainstream physics with more speculative consciousness-based frameworks.

What This Tells Us

About Epstein's Role

The documents paint a picture of Epstein as more than just a financial supporter of science—he appears to have been:

A gatekeeper: With apparent editorial control over PBS programming content
A convenor: Bringing together scientists, media producers, and alternative thinkers
A funder: Supporting specific research projects through his foundation
An active participant: Engaged enough to discuss specific scientific concepts and programming decisions

About the Science Funding Ecosystem

These files raise uncomfortable questions about how scientific research and science communication are funded:

How much influence should private donors have over educational programming?
What happens when controversial benefactors connect mainstream scientists with fringe figures?
Does funding create intellectual obligations that compromise scientific independence?

About Multiverse Theory's Cultural Position

The documents show how multiverse theory occupies a unique position in contemporary culture:

It's simultaneously cutting-edge physics and philosophical speculation
It attracts both rigorous theorists and those seeking to validate non-materialist worldviews
It serves as a meeting ground for different intellectual traditions—sometimes productively, sometimes problematically

Conclusion

The "Multiverse Files" don't reveal any scientific misconduct or conspiracies. Instead, they offer a revealing window into:

How elite science funding and communication networks actually operate
The blurred boundaries between rigorous science, philosophy, and speculation
The uncomfortable dependencies created when scientific discourse relies on wealthy private patrons

For anyone interested in either the Epstein case or the sociology of science, these documents provide valuable—if troubling—insights into how ideas travel and who gets to control the conversation about humanity's biggest questions.

All documents cited are publicly available through the U.S. Department of Justice at justice.gov/epstein:

THE DATA

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00603032.pdf

"A Universe from Nothing: Epilogue 185

the Universe. As I have alluded this is the most fascinating question for me because
it provides the basic motivation for almost all research into the fundamental
structure of matter, space and time—the research area that has occupied me for
much of my professional life. I used to think there was a stark choice in the answer to this question, but in the process of writing this book, my views have altered.

Clearly if there is a single
theory involving a unique set of laws that describe and indeed prescribe how our
Universe came into being and the rules that have governed its evolution ever
since—the goal of physics since Newton or Galileo—then the answer would appear
to be in the negative. But what if our Universe is not unique, but a part of a vast, and possibly infinite
multiverse of Universes?

Surely the answer to Einstein's question in this case is a
resounding yes! I am not so sure. As I have described, it could be that there are an infinite set of
different combinations of laws, and spaces, and varieties of particles and substances
and forces that may arise in such a multiverse. However, it may be that only a
certain very restricted combination, that results in the Universe in which we live, or
one very much like it, can support the evolution of beings that can ask such a
question. Then the answer to Einstein will still remain negative in this case. A God,
or a Nature which could produce a multiverse is then as constrained by the
existence of a Universe in which Einstein could ask the question as either would be
if there is only one choice of a consistent physical reality.

Epilogue 186
I find the possibility that in either scenario, even a seemingly omnipotent God
may have no freedom in the creation of our universe, oddly satisfying. No doubt
because it further suggests to me that she is probably unnecessary."

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01029372.pdf

Feb 15, 2019

"...We would like to explore your ideas by interviewing you for Closer To Truth, website and PBS TV. As you know, Jeffrey and Closer To Truth are collaborating on a major series for PBS on "Breakthroughs" in
mathematics and other areas (e.g., biology, music) - and we surely want to feature you in one or more of the mathematics episodes. Hopefully, we will coordinate schedules. At the same time, we can explore your thoughts on the multiverse as well."

"...This publication is very important for me, because now nobody can ignore this multiverse-concept and my authorship in the subject - it is very possibly can become a story which takes place once in 500 years —as an invitation to the 4-th Copernican Revolution. It is not common fantastic Linde's multiverse of the non-interacting, hyper-enormously big bubble-universes — which cannot explain the DE&DM nature at all,this is never directly testable dead lock by definition, as for example, the string theory postulate about"elementary" 1D-strings with 10^-35m.This article is about the periodic wave guided multiverse (PWM) with the intrinsically identical/Standard Model (SM)-like/, gravitationally co-interacting sub-universes - 3D-waveguides, it unites &expands the 4D-multiversal nature of the basic 3D-physical laws (SR, QM, gravity, includes the multiversal quantum gravity concept, establishes the multiversal weightless - composite superfluid vacuum-medium theory, impossible without matter-antimatter antigravity, Where our particles are quasi-particles -elementary holes in it, (that naturally explains the basic QM-miracles, etc) the multiversal by the nature.The PWM simultaneously explains the dark energy (DE) and dark matter (DM) nature and their trivially arising fine tuning + steady universe flatness + self-levering density + its acceleration expansion, etc.Waiting of yours response,Sincerely,Iourii Gribov"

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00918813.pdf

To: "jeffrey E."
Subject: Kuhn - Breakthroughs
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2018

"Great talk. Totally agree.

I'll work on a revised list of the 13 episodes. We'll have 2-3 more math episodes,cut Multiverse and Rare Sentience.

Once you approve, I'll get our team to find links to every suggested participant (videos where available) "

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00603034.pdf

" Universe from Nothing 8: A Grand Accident? 138

'probability distribution' for four-dimensional universes embedded in a larger
dimensional multiverse. One might find, for example, that the bulk of such
universes that had small vacuum energy also had three families of elementary
particles and four different forces. Or one might find that only in universes with
small vacuum energy could there exist a long-range force of electromagnetism. Any
such result might provide reasonably compelling evidence that a probabilistic
anthropic explanation of the energy of empty space makes solid physical sense.
Needless to say, such mathematical conditional probabilities have not resulted
thus far. That does not mean they do not exist however. Nevertheless, in the
meantime particle physics have taken anthropic reasoning a step further.

Particle physicists are way ahead of cosmologists. Cosmology has produced one
totally mysterious quantity: the energy of empty space, about which we understand
virtually nothing. However, particle physics has not understood many more
quantities for far longer!

For example: Why are there three generations of elementary particles? Why is
gravity so much weaker than the other forces in nature? Why is the proton 2000
times heavier than the elecdtron? And so on.

Some particle physicists have now jumped on the anthropic bandwagon in the
extreme. For perhaps not just one fundamental quantity in nature is an
environmental accident. Maybe all of the mysteries of particle theory can be solved

Universe from Nothing 8: A Grand Accident? 139

by invoking the same mantra: If the Universe were any other way, we could not live
in it!

One might wonder if such a solution of the mysteries of nature is any solution at
all, or more importantly, whether it describes science as we understand it. After all,
the goal of science, and in particular physics, over the past 450 years has been to
explain why the universe must be the way we measure it to be, rather than why in
general the laws of nature would produce universes which are quite different
I have tried to explain why this is not quite the case, namely why many
respectable scientists have turned to the anthropic principle, and why a number
have worked quite hard to see if we might learn something new about our universe
based on it

Let me now go further and try and explain how the existence of forever
undetectable universes, either removed from us by virtually infinite distances in
space, or right beyond the tip of our noses, removed from us by microscopic
distances in possible extra dimensions, might nevertheless be subject to some kind
of empirical testing.

Imagine, for example, that we devised theory based on unifying at least three of
the four forces of nature in some 'Grand Unified Theory', a subject of continued
intense interest in particle physics (among those who have not given up looking for
fundamental theories in four dimensions). Such a theory would make predictions
about the forces of nature that we measure and about the spectrum of elementary

Universe from Nothing 8: A Grand Accident? 140

particles that we probe at our accelerators. Should such a theory make a host of
predictions that are subsequently verified in our experiments we would have very
good reason to suspect that it contains a germ of truth.

Now, suppose this theory imagine such a theory also predicts a period of
inflation in the early universe, and in fact predicts that our inflationary epoch is
merely one of a host of such episodes in an eternally inflating multiverse. Even if we
could not directly explore the existences of such regions beyond our horizon, then,
as I have said earlier, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck... well you know.
Possible empirical support for the ideas surrounding extra dimensions is more
far-fetched, but not impossible. There are many bright young theorists who are
devoting their professional careers to the hope of developing the theory to the point
where there might be some evidence, even indirect, that it is correct. Their hopes
might be misplaced, but they have voted with their feet.

So, after a century of remarkable, truly unprecedented progress in our
understanding of nature, we have found ourselves able to probe the universe on
scales which were previously unimaginable, we have understood the nature of the
Big Bang expansion back to its earliest microseconds, and have discovered the
existence of hundreds of billions of new galaxies, with hundreds of billions of new
stars. We have discovered that 99% of the Universe is actually invisible to us,
dominated by dark matter that is most likely some new form of elementary particle,
and dark energy, whose origin remains a complete mystery at the present time.

Universe from Nothing 8: A Grand Accident? 141

And after all of this, it may be that physics will become an 'environmental
science'. It could be that the fundamental constants of nature, so long assumed to
take on special importance, could just be environmental accidents. If we tend to
take ourselves too seriously, maybe we have taken our universe too seriously too.
Maybe literally, as well as metaphorically, we are making much ado about nothing,
or at least the nothing that dominates our universe!. Maybe our universe is rather
like a tear buried in a vast multiversal ocean of possibilities. Maybe we will never
find a theory that describes why the universe has to be the way it is.
Or maybe we will.

That, finally, is the most accurate picture of reality as we now understand it that
I can paint. It is based on work of tens of thousands of dedicated minds over the
past century, building some of the most complex machines ever devised, and
discovering some of the most beautiful and also the most complex ideas humanity
has ever had to grapple with. It is a picture whose development emphasizes the
best about what it is to be human. And we owe it to ourselves to draw wisdom from
it. To do otherwise would do a disservice to all the brilliant and brave individuals
who helped us reach our current state of knowledge.
If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our
significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions should be
based on empirical truths. A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to

Universe from Nothing 8: A Grand Accident? 142

conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice-versa, whether or not we like the
implications. "

Email form Jeff team(likely) to Deepak Chopra, discussing science things including multiverse briefly:

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01062428.pdf

A document Titled - "Validating an Integrated Cognitive Architecture
via Intelligence Testing with Virtual Animals"..."Proposal for Epstein Foundation"

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01105809.pdf

"...For the proposed project, we will create a customized game world specifically for parrot intelligence,creating objects and situations oriented toward parrot intelligence testing as to be outlined below. This will comprise a natural extension of prior work done using OpenCog to control virtual animals in virtual worlds, e.g. recent work in a Unity3D based Minecraft-like world, and earlier work in a Multiverse based game world

...Figure 3: OpenCog's MOSES component has been used to learn procedures enabling virtual dogs to play fetch, dance and carry out other simple behaviors,
in a game world built using the Multiverse game engine."

Another context with Deepak Chopra

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00821866.pdf

"On the gravity itself, of course "isolated from" implies an external reality. But that is again a postulate so all the multiverse arguments etc. are based on that, which take gravity as the only thing that exists, i.e. actually assuming a universal space-time. So that's as far as your previous e-mail. With respect to your most recent e-mail, what is the difference between internal imagination and sensation? Aren't they both qualia? Deepak and I have argued that instead of particles and waves, we should be talking about qualia. Wolfgang, with all due respect you are a physicalist. Which is fine, after all a lot of good science is based on that framework. But in that case, you have to take physicalism to its logical end and accept (as most physicalists do) that the mind itself is a physical entity or created in the brain. That
you end up to the huge (it really is huge) problem of fine tuning which then directly leads to the multiverse idea, which although could be "true" in some sense, is a circular argument.

WE (Deepak and I, the great traditions of both East and West and an increasing number of scientists, I would say) take the opposite postulate, Consciousness is fundamental. Which leads you then to the conscious universe framework.
As Planck said, you cannot get out of consciousness.
Best,
Menas "

Apparently building a video game (see #6, #9)

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00624128.pdf

"....at the moment there is no such thing as a "massive multiplayer robot simulator," and so the choice is between a multi-participant virtual environment (like the Multiverse environment currently used with the PetBrain) or a small-scale robot simulator. Our experiments with virtual worlds so far have used the high-level approach described here; but we are also experimenting with using physical robots and corresponding simulators, as will be described below"

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01114145.pdf

"...Data mining applications have spanned text classification, bioinformatics and computational finance. OpenCog has also been used to control virtual agents in videogame type worlds (including current work in the M-Lab, and earlier work controlling virtual dogs in Second Life and Multiverse) and humanoid robots (in the BLISS Lab at Xiamen University).

While OpenCog is not closely based on the human brain, it derives its overall
architecture from cognitive science, and as such it shares some general properties withhuman intelligence."

10)

Nautilus Issues Library

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00805690.pdf

"ISSUE 41
Selection
Even Mother Nature can seem reluctant to choose, keeping cats both dead and alive, and running up a large multiverse tab. By some accounts, there is no such thing as time, or events, which means that what we experience as choices are just mathematical solutions to distant boundary value problems."

11)

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02645872.pdf

From: Deepak Chopra
Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 11:32 AM
To: Jeff Epstein
Subject: Lunch with Deepak I: LSD, Quantum Healing, and Plato I Psychology Today

"...I interviewed the Nobel laureate Wilczek, physicist from MIT. So I said, "What is matter?" "It's particles." I said, "What are particles, subatomic particles?" He says, "They are little things." I said, "But then everybody says that's a wave potential, that's in Hilbert space. What is that? Where is Hilbert space?" He says, "It's mathematical." "What is it?" "It's infinitely dimensional or zero dimensional." "Where is it?" The usual answer is "Shut up and calculate," right? So I realized that the entire new paradigm of multiverse, superstrings, eternal inflation, whatever, is all in mathematical imagination. Hilbert space is in mathematical imagination, the wave potential is in mathematical imagination. I said to Wilczek, "What is matter?" And he said, "We're still trying to figure that out." [Laughter.] I mean this is coming from a Nobel laureate who discovered a particle, you know. So I ended up where I began, which is non-dualism, that there is
only consciousness. "

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