Further to The multiverse: Hi, Nonsense, meet Budget (This Perimeter Institute conference could be a party’s over signal; time to sweep up the streamers and bust balloons, and get back to evidence-based science):
Columbia mathematician Peter Woit is following the proceedings and notes,
You can follow a lot of what is going on at this conference on Twitter, here. For example, I was glad to hear about this comment from Dimopoulos
There is no difference that we know right now … between the story of divine intervention and the multiverse.
It’s great to see a conference on fundamental physics where the multiverse is coming in for some appropriate skepticism.
Nonsense, meet Prayer Beads. He has a wonderful plan for your life.
Update: One thing to say about the multiverse, it does provide an excuse for an endless number of popular articles mulling it over. Just today, there’s Caleb Scharf and George Johnson.
Oh dear. It seems Nonsense had to run off to an interview with two pop sci news sections and three pop sci mags, and was not able to discuss matters with either Budget or Prayer Beads.
That’s conferences for ya.
See also: Multiverse cosmology at your fingertips
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