Cosmic coincidences?: New Scientist says multiverse is best explanation!
From New Scientist on our universe’s five most startling coincidences: 1. Dark matter and energy balance 2. Universe lines up along “axis of evil” 3. Universe flat as a pancake 4. Space is all the same temperature 5. Higgs boson keeps the universe stable Having decided that these cirumstances are not coincidences, the New Scientist staff happily burble, One idea explains all the weird coincidences in the universe Don’t believe in coincidences but stuck for an explanation? Time to call up the anthropic principle and the multiverse … Why believe in the multiverse? Because a process such as inflation (see “The universe is flat as a pancake. Coincidence?“), if left unchecked, could produce a multitude of causally disconnected universes. String Read More ›