Posts Tagged by Ethan Siegel
The fight over the universe has turned ugly, with accusations of “cheating”
| August 30, 2018 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Culture, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, Naturalism |
We are told: “Wherever you look in the cosmos, things don’t seem to add up.” And now physicists like Sabine Hossenfelder are accused of cheating: Ethan Siegel, astrophysicist-blogger behind Forbes’ Starts With a Bang! blog, responded with a post titled “There’s A Debate Raging Over Whether Dark Matter Is Real, But One Side Is Cheating.” […]
How to talk yourself into believing in a multiverse
| August 28, 2018 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Multiverse |
It’s becoming obvious that post-modern science will have its multiverse irrespective of evidence from nature and will prefer it and its component beliefs to evidence from nature. That is why some of us think that the multiverse is science’s assisted suicide.
Startling admission about the science (i.e., non-science) basis for the multiverse
| July 25, 2018 | Posted by News under Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Multiverse |
From Ethan Siegel at Forbes: So why do so many theoretical physicists write papers about the multiverse? About parallel Universes and their connection to our own through this multiverse? Why do they claim that the multiverse is connected to the string landscape, the cosmological constant, and even to the fact that our Universe is finely-tuned […]
At Forbes: Maybe fine-tuning doesn’t matter as much as some claim. Many planets might support life…
| July 9, 2018 | Posted by News under Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design |
From Ethan Siegel at Forbes: Based on everything we know, it seems like the conditions that make life possible are a lot more diverse and flexible than most people would expect. … Take Earth’s large moon, for example. The gravitational forces from it keep our planet rotating on the same axis over time. Our present […]
