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One of the most startling scientific discoveries of recent decades is that physics appears to be fine-tuned for life. This means that for life to be possible, certain numbers in physics had to fall within a certain, very narrow range.
The most popular explanation for the fine-tuning of physics is that we live in one universe among a multiverse. If enough people buy lottery tickets, it becomes probable that somebody is going to have the right numbers to win. Likewise, if there are enough universes, with different numbers in their physics, it becomes likely that some universe is going to have the right numbers for life.
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Wouldn’t it make more sense that life evolved to take advantage of the laws of physics?
Relevant Douglas Adams quote:
If you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn’t it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!
I feel like this is just blabbering. Fine-tuned physics and multiverse is sensational coolaid wording.
What is more probable in my opinion is that we live in a “pocket” of circumstances that is exponentially hard to break out of. It is enclosed as to prevent sudden intrusion, so it gives a certain stability to our existence. There are no multiple universes because the concept of universe itself is to describe everything.
Whatever you imagine is happening in “parallel universes”, can be described as happening in THE universe. It is infinite, it is all reoccuring patterns, it has every ability to even do the “same thing happening almost similarly but not quite” thingy people find to be fun and getting lot of views.
Sounds like that might be a distinction without a difference :/
It is like polytheist gods and monotheist God. People are really bad with the concepts for exactly the same reason.
Multiverse theory is literally just religion with sciency words at this point.
Physics is the same everywhere in the universe. It’s possible there are other universes with different physics to ours.
Did you look at what the concept “universe” means?
Yeah it includes all space and time as we understand it. Doesn’t mean there can’t be different universes.
From wikipedia: “The universe is all of space and time[a] and their contents,[10] including planets, stars, galaxies, and all other forms of matter and energy.”
If not everything is in it, we dont call it a universe. Simple.
The multiverse is the hypothetical set of all universes.[a] Together, these universes are presumed to comprise everything that exists: the entirety of space, time, matter, energy, information, and the physical laws and constants that describe them. The different universes within the multiverse are called “parallel universes”, “flat universes”, “other universes”, “alternate universes”, “multiple universes”, “plane universes”, “parent and child universes”, “many universes”, or “many worlds”. One common assumption is that the multiverse is a “patchwork quilt of separate universes all bound by the same laws of physics.”[1]
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Unless its not infinite, you cannot produce conclusive evidence for anything.
Science is more like a string of coherence without a beginning or end. You cannot actually get to a conclusion or a source.
In order to believe in conclusive evidence, you have to believe that you can empirically determine something without infinitely running the same “experiment”. Thus you have to believe that there is no infinite variation.
Now that is a pretty outlandish speculation.
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