Life and the Universe
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Transcript: Chaotic inflation and the concept of the multiverse are an extraordinary potential insight into our role in the universe. These theories say that at the time of quantum genesis, only one space time seed inflated to become the large and old universe that we live in. Many other possible space time fluctuations could have lead to other universes with physical properties utterly different from ours. However, in the huge range of possible physical properties or laws of nature, only very specific and narrow ranges accommodate the existence of carbon and chemistry and biology and life. So we live in one of the very small fraction of those huge number of potential universes in which life could exist. This is an attempt to explain the anthropic principle in terms of a huge number of universes. It violates the historical idea and the scientific method of Occam’s razor, but the simplest explanation is best. We’ve hypothesized a huge number of universes that are in principle unobservable because they are outside our space-time continuum and use it as an explanation for the particular properties of our universe. It has some attractions, but it’s not clear this is standard science because how could we test such an idea.
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