Big Bang Birthday: No multiverse take (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, March 24, 2014, 15:01 (3897 days ago) @ David Turell

Great essay by Scott Aaronson who sounds like Peter Woit to me:-http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1753-"Yes, these multiverses are a perfectly fine thing to speculate about: sure they're unobservable, but so are plenty of other entities that science has forced us to accept. There are even natural reasons, within physics and cosmology, that could lead a person to speculate about each of these multiverse levels. So if you want to speculate, knock yourself out! If, however, you want me to accept the results as more than speculation—if you want me to put them on the bookshelf next to Darwin and Einstein—then you'll need to do more than argue that other stuff I already believe logically entails a multiverse (which I've never been sure about), or point to facts that are currently unexplained as evidence that we need a multiverse to explain their unexplainability, or claim as triumphs for your hypothesis things that don't really need the hypothesis at all, or describe implausible hypothetical scenarios that could confirm or falsify the hypothesis. Rather, you'll need to use your multiverse hypothesis—and your proposed solution to the resulting measure problem—to do something new that impresses me."