Cosmologic philosophy: multiverse (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, January 09, 2017, 17:30 (2875 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: Since nobody knows what happened before the big bang (if the big bang happened), and nobody knows the extent of our universe, that part of the universe which we know could be microscopic, and the big bang (if it happened) could have been a blip. Alternatively, the one universe could have undergone innumerable “big bangs” in its eternal history.

All the current evidence says the topography of this universe is flat, will continue expanding and die a heat death. Your scenario requires a contraction of the topography, with no evidence for that this time.

DAVID:My view is we have to find some 'meaning' for our individual lives and live by those precepts. I don't find life pointless, a concept Steven Weinberg alluded to.

dhw: I agree with you completely. But our individual meaning does not denote that the universe itself has any meaning.

The meaning is the presence of us, thinking and debating.