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Multiple Universes

Started by Unbeliever, December 18, 2007, 04:31:27 pm

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December 18, 2007, 04:31:27 pm Last Edit: September 23, 2008, 02:33:54 pm by Unbeliever
Parallel Universes

Fine-tuning, Multiple Universes, and the "This Universe" Objection

Philosophical Implications of Inflationary Cosmology

In the Matrix: Martin Rees
QuoteAll these multiverse ideas lead to a remarkable synthesis between cosmology and physics...But they also lead to the extraordinary consequence that we may not be the deepest reality, we may be a simulation. The possibility that we are creations of some supreme, or super-being, blurs the boundary between physics and idealist philosophy, between the natural and the supernatural, and between the relation of mind and multiverse and the possibility that we're in the matrix rather than the physics itself.
"Some say God is living there [in space]. I was looking around very attentively, but I did not see anyone there. I did not detect either angels or gods....I don't believe in God. I believe in man - his strength, his possibilities, his reason."
Gherman Titov, Soviet cosmonaut, in The Seattle Daily Ti