The Multiverse: Another Speculation

"The big bang model has some problems - homogeneity, flatness, and lack of magnetic monopoles.

"Cosmic Inflation occurred when the entire universe shortly after its beginning, expanded exponentially fast for a fraction of a second. One implication of this is that the universe on large scales may not be so homogenous. Inflation could have ended at different times in different places. This would mean that the universe is bigger and more complex than we realize. This concept is called ETERNAL inflation."

Click on the link below for another possibility in support of the multiverse hypothesis:

Why the MULTIVERSE might be REAL: Eternal Inflation

The Multiverse: The Evidence Grows

"The team's model starts the Universe as a multitude of universes. Each universe in this multiverse has a different mass for the Higgs boson – some quite heavy, and some very light.

"Then, the physicists calculated how these universes would evolve over time. They found that universes with heavier Higgs bosons became unstable and collapsed very quickly in a 'big crunch', in a fraction of a second.

"The universes with lighter Higgs bosons survived. Under this scenario, our Universe emerged as perhaps the sole survivor of the catastrophic multiverse crunching, with a very light Higgs boson."

Click on the link below for another hypothesis for the multiverse. Yes, it is not falsifiable at this point, thus, it is not yet accepted science. However, the results of recent experiments point positively to such. Compare this to what theists propose: an unevidenced supernatural being behind it all.

Mind-Bending New Multiverse Scenario Could Explain a Strange Higgs Boson Feature

The Multiverse Hypothesis: The Evidence Behind it

The multiverse hypothesis is a common counter-apologetic against religious apologetics. However, the religious do have a point: it is not clearly true. That said, they ignore the facts behind its hypothesis. Click on the link below for a clear and concise presentation of scientific reasons for its possibility and, perhaps, its probability:

Do We Live in a Multiple Universe?

God Of The Gaps Explained

Place yourself at home in the morning and there is just you and two others in the house. You prepare your breakfast of toast and coffee and are ready to eat. However, nature calls and you have to answer it. When you return, one of the two slices of toast is gone. You asked the two others, "Where is my toast?" Both of them deny taking it. There is no evidence pointing to either one (a gap in knowledge), however, you make the claim that one of them did it (a leap of faith). THIS is what we are talking about when religious apologists make claims for a God.

The above can be illustrated by debunking the Cosmological Argument (Argument from First Cause, and its variants). The religious claims that there must be the first cause of everything and it is God. The science-based thinker states that such a claim is unsupported by objective evidence and, in fact, given the weirdness of reality at the sub-atomic level and some suggestive evidence for an eternal system of multiverses, the only reasonable stance is to say, "We don't know."

Is The Multiverse Scientific?

" - - - prominent physicists are divided about whether any other universes exist outside of our own. Some even go as far as to say that the multiverse is not a legitimate topic of scientific inquiry because it can not be empirically falsified. But Neil deGrasse Tyson among other prominent cosmologists thinks that given our understanding of quantum mechanics and the thoery of General relativity, the possibility of the existence of the multiverse is a legitimate scientific hypothesis."

At least there are tested scientific methods that point to its possibility, what does "Goddidit" have?

Click on the link below for a clarifying presentation on the subject.

The Multiverse

Quantum Physics IS Weird, But Real

"The quantum physics of large things: Macro quantum effect. Why don’t tennis balls behave like quantum particles? What happens to a baseball in a double-slit experiment? This experiment shows that atoms behave like waves of probability when not measured, and particles when measured. We also see that two quantum particles can be entangled, meaning that is connected through a sharing of one probability wave."

Why don't quantum effects occur in large objects?

"I learned quantum mechanics the traditional 'Copenhagen Interpretation' way. We can use the Schrödinger equation to solve for and evolve wave functions. Then we invoke wave-particle duality, in essence, things we detect as particles can behave as waves when they aren't interacting with anything. But when there is a measurement, the wave function collapses leaving us with a definite particle detection. If we repeat the experiment many times, we find the statistics of these results mirror the amplitude of the wave function squared. Hence the Born rule came into being, saying the wave function should be interpreted statistically, that our universe at the most fundamental scale is probabilistic rather than deterministic. This did not sit well with scientists like Einstein and Schrödinger who believed there must be more going on, perhaps 'hidden variables'."

Parallel Worlds Probably Exist. Here's why

"Is our universe a definitive single reality or is it merely one within an infinitely branching multiverse? "

The Many Worlds of the Quantum Multiverse

"Why is an observer key to quantum physics? Does the act of observation affect what exists and what happens in the external world? Why is Observation in the quantum world a mystery?

Observing Quanta, Observing Nature?

The Multiverse Simplified

"It’s only due to the fact that the Universe has been around for a finite amount of time that we can only observe a specific part of it. This is the most simple definition of Multiverse that’s out there: the idea that there’s simply more, unobservable Universe out there beyond what we can see."

The Multiverse For Non-Scientists

"the multiverse is a consequence of the best science we have available today, but it doesn't make any scientific predictions we can put to the test."

What Is (And Isn't) Scientific About The Multiverse

"Is the multiverse real? What could be more startling than many universes – multiple universes, innumerable universes, perhaps an infinite number of universes? But does the multiverse really exist?"

The Multiverse: What is Real?

Theists' Views Of Reality Are Very Narrow

After wasting several hours of my life recently attempting to have a rational discussion with a few Christian apologists (answer the questions!!!), I had to read something that brought me back to reality.  This lengthy article is full of speculation, but based on mathematics and observation.  Note:  nothing in the article gives support for the pre-science superstition of an interventionist deity.

Why there might be many more universes besides our own

Are We At The Limits of Physics?

"We may be entering a new era in physics. An era where there are weird features in the Universe that we cannot explain. An era where we have hints that we live in a multiverse that lies frustratingly beyond our reach. An era where we will never be able to answer the question why is there something rather than nothing."

The 2 most dangerous numbers in the Universe could signal the end of physics

The Mind Of A Theoretical Physicist

The Science Friday podcast interviews Alan Guth, a world-renowned theoretical physicist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Guth supports the idea that our universe is one of many, with even more universes yet to form.

10 Questions For Alan Guth

Is The Multiverse Science?

An excellent article on the Multiverse issue, as well as a look into how science works.

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/ask-ethan-96-is-the-multiverse-science-ecceb24fa2af

The Multiverse Hypothesis

It could be testable.  That is about all we can say presently, but it is still fascinating.

http://www.businessinsider.com/do-we-live-in-a-parallel-universe-2015-4