Multiverse promotion continues apace, with Steinhardt one of a rather small number of physicists publicly objecting. On Monday Alexander Vilenkin will explain to the public at the American Museum of Natural History that “the Big Bang was not a unique event in cosmic history and that other Big Bangs constantly erupt in remote parts of the universe, producing new worlds with a great variety of physical properties” (see here). A recent story on livescience has Brian Greene on the multiverse. Over at Massimo Pigliucci’s Scientia Salon Coel Hellier is starting a multipart series arguing against multiverse skeptics with The multiverse as a scientific concept — part I. Nothing in Part I about the problematic issues (untestable claims that fundamental physics is “environmental”), maybe in Part II… More.
“Environmental,” yeah, is a good word. It doesn’t matter whether it is true in nature or not. It is what people paid by government buzz in coffee shops. And it just has to be true in their philosophy.
See also Multiverse bubble bust?
This comment nails it:
of note; Darwinism is also unfalsifiable!
“Which god do YOU believe in? Bazinga!” asks the wise atheist.
Multiverse gives us Zeus, Thor, and the Flying Spagetti Monster. Multiverse is Heavenly. Somewhere in the Multiverse Thor is zapping an atheist. Bazinga!
Darwinism, inflationism, Big Bangism, Copenhagen interpretationism, materialism, young earth creationism, etc. It’s all voodoo nonsense. Almost everything that matters in science is crap. It almost feels as if some powerful evil force is trying to hide some very important truth from humanity. Why is that?
Graham Farmelo on Paul Dirac and Mathematical Beauty – video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfYon2WdR40
I wonder if it would be possible for a software program to determine whether or not it arose by accident within the constraints of the hardware platform that hosts it?
Those who posit a multiverse are assuming that with enough hardware platforms, certain software can arise by accident. Our uniform experience is the opposite. Hardware platforms host software that is developed independently.
The enormity of the protein search space problem confirms the intuition that the complexity of life exceeds the ability of the universe to generate it by accident (randomly).
Three conclusions follow:
1. Life exists beyond the confines of the universe
2. Life within our universe was planted here
3. The universe is not closed.