Re: Time without end: Physics and Biology in an Open Universe

From: Peter F (fell_trapforspambot_in_at_ozemail.com.au)
Date: 10/30/04 

Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 17:32:02 +0000 (UTC)

"Maurice Barnhill" <mvb@udel.edu> wrote in message news:cloeln$2n28$1@darwin.ediacara.org...
> Michael Ragland wrote:

> I think that there are at least two meanings of multiple
> universes, and I don't understand all the possibilities. One,
> however, is that we are inside an expanding bubble of space-time
> which is only part of the complete universe. There could be
> other bubbles that we will never be connected to, and the
> "constants" of physics might even be different in the other
> bubbles. In passing, it is pretty obvious that this idea can
> easily fall prey to Occam's Razor.

That would be the razor of irrelevance, would it not? :-)

Other than that, to my miniscule mind the only obvious thing
with the idea of a Multiverse is that it is the only idea (of Infinity)
that makes sense as far as it logically offers us the opportunity
to exist ;-).

That is, exist through the quasi Darwinian anthropic principle.

P

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