Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Big Bang of the Gaps

[Paul Davies] So is that the end of the story? Can the multiverse provide a complete and closed account of all physical existence? Not quite. The multiverse comes with a lot of baggage, such as an overarching space and time to host all those bangs, a universe-generating mechanism to trigger them, physical fields to populate the universes with material stuff, and a selection of forces to make things happen. Cosmologists embrace these features by envisaging sweeping “meta-laws” that pervade the multiverse and spawn specific bylaws on a universe-by-universe basis. The meta-laws themselves remain unexplained - eternal, immutable transcendent entities that just happen to exist and must simply be accepted as given. In that respect the meta-laws have a similar status to an unexplained transcendent god.

http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/article613773.ece

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  1. Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily. -- attributed to William of Ockham. Multiverse theorists need to review certain first principles.

    John Sellman

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