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He said it: What’s wrong with the multiverse is the multiverse
The real battle in cosmology today is the war on rationality and orderliness. From physicist Bruce Gordon, “Balloons on a string,” The Nature of Nature (ISI Books, 2011) p. 585: The mindless multiverse “solution” to the problem of fine-tuning is, quite literally, a metaphysical non-starter. What the absence of efficient material causality in fundamental physics and cosmology reveals instead is the limit of scientific explanations and the need for a deeper metaphysical understanding of the world’s rationality and orderliness. That explanation has always been, and will forever be, Mind over matter. When the logical and metaphysical necessity of an efficient cause, the demonstrable absence of a material one, and the realized implication of a universe both contingent and finite in Read More ›