Why is there anything at all? (Introduction)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Monday, June 09, 2008, 23:44 (6009 days ago) @ David Turell

Personally, I don't buy the "multiverse" theory since it violates Ockham's razor by miles. But of course I can't prove this, and there are many respectable scientists (e.g. the Fantasist Royal, oops sorry, the Astronomer Royal, Martin Rees, and the quantum computerist, David Deutsch) who support it. - I prefer the arguments of Wilczek and Stenger, which favour the view that the universe is the way it is because it could be no other way. But of course this preference is partly for aesthetic reasons. I'm prepared to change my opinion if evidence becomes available that points some other way. - Incidentally according to relativity the "expansion" of the universe is not supposed to be "within" or "into" anything, it creates its own space and time as it expands.