Laetoli footprints (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Monday, April 12, 2010, 17:32 (5338 days ago) @ David Turell


> > The fine-tuned universe that David references resolves around the fact that many properties of the universe, had they gone one way or another would have resulted in a dead universe. (I and several cosmologists dispute this.) One problem that gets solved in a many-universes scenario is this one--if you have infinitely many universes you are guaranteed to get one like ours, no God required for direct intervention.
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> The problem with this approach is it will be total fiction until string theory is proven. Multiuniverse is pie-in-the-sky, and can never be proven if this universe has a finite edge bent back on itself. Who are the reputable cosmologists in dispute? Please don't use Stenger. He is a wack job.-You seem to have forgotten that the "many worlds" interpretation is rooted in current quantum mechanics--and has nothing at all to do with String Theory. -(Though I will repost this:)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090706113702.htm
If String Theory starts to have more successes like this in explaining phenomenon untouched by the Copenhagen Interpretation--I think you'll start to see more experimental physicists aligning with theoretical physicists. (Right now 9/10 of new theoretical physicists grads study String Theory.) -There's two views in physics that have a fairly equal number of supporters--consistent histories, and many worlds. Seth Lloyd is consistent histories. (And so am I.) I think Brian Greene is many-worlds, as is those physicists named on the wikipedia page for "many worlds interpretation." -Both views try to solve the problem of how a single photon appears in two places at once. Neither is necessarily experimentally valid (which is why they're called interpretations.) But both strive to explain physical phenomenon--both without resorting to strings. (Strings just solve the problem of a quantum theory of gravity.)

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