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Multiverse

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
January 2, 2021
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Multiverse
Physics
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Peter Woit, whom we sometimes follow because he is fun, looks back on string theory

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January 2, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, Physics
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He doesn’t seem to get the fact that string theory was a religious movement that was bound to end badly. The most distressing victim is science. But then that was well before the war on math, wasn’t it? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 28, 2020
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
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At Quanta: Are we looking at the end of physics?

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November 28, 2020
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, Physics
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Ah yes, the problem of dead-endedness that Sabine Hossenfelder often writes about. As does Columbia mathematician Peter Woit, on the subject of string theory. But surely much of the nonsense around string theory and the multiverse is in part due to a practical failure—the inability to find even a single particle of dark matter or similar evidence for dark energy. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 26, 2020
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Fine tuning
Intelligent Design
Multiverse
theism
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Wintery Knight: Does the multiverse counter the fine-tuning argument for God’s existence?

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July 26, 2020
Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, theism
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Knight: The multiverse is not pure nonsense, it is theoretically possible.But even if there were a multiverse, the generator that makes the universes itself would require fine-tuning, so the multiverse doesn’t get rid of the problem. And, as Lightman indicates, we have no independent experimental evidence for the existence of the multiverse in any case. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 24, 2020
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Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Design
Media
Multiverse
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Multiverse physicist Max Tegmark switches gears; seeks AI to combat “news bias”

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July 24, 2020
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Media, Multiverse
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Readers may recall him from the four levels of multiverse he advocated in Scientific American in 2003. But forget that. He now thinks there is too much bias in American media and he is working on an AI program to combat it Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
June 4, 2020
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Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Multiverse
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Robert J. Marks on why there cannot be an infinite number of universes

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June 4, 2020
Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Multiverse
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The Big Bang Theory sitcom’s Sheldon Cooper insists that in no universe would he dance with Penny. That mighrt be true, says Marks but there still isn’t an infinite number of universes: But, some claim, there is an infinite number of universes in the multiverse. That is ludicrous because there are no infinities in the physical world. Even if there were, Cantor’s theory of the infinite shows that, if there were an infinite number of contingencies, not all contingency combinations could be accounted for by an infinite number of universes. Therefore, even if there is an infinite number of universes with an infinite number of contingencies, then—among an infinite number of Sheldons—it’s possible that none of the Sheldons dance. Robert Read More ›