[JoeProBono]

[ketelone]

When he was a 13 year-old schoolboy in Orissa in eastern India.... the book remained unread for two years.... until he found himself struggling to prepare for a physics test on electrons and their antiparticle counterparts, positrons. At the age of 15??!!?

[samtheman]

I don’t have a problem with the anthropic principle with regard to the multiverse, or with regard to the solar system, for that matter.

We find ourselves on Earth, not on Mars or Venus, because Earth is suitable for life, Mars and Venus not. Does that cause us to suffer the pains of philosophical conundrums? No, because it’s obvious. Life is going to evolve in places where conditions are suitable and not evolve in places where conditions suck.

Same with the multiverse. We find ourselves in a universe that has the “right” combination of physical laws to make for stable stellar chemistries and the right bonding properties of atoms and we don’t find ourself in a universe in which stars are too cold to burn or in which they flame out in mere seconds. What’s so troubling about that? It seems to me no more or less obvious than life evolving on Earth and not on Venus or Mars.

I think some people are troubled by philosophical conundrums just because they’re put off by certain phrases, like “anthropic principle” (a phrase, by the way, that I think is unnecessary to discuss the possibility of a multiverse)... either that or they just want those $50,000 grants.

[SkyPilot]

[RegulatorCountry]

For some, the multiverse is a godsend because it provides an explanation, of sorts, for why our universe has its peculiar properties.

Or, maybe the "godsend" is that we really are special.

[Dr. Sivana]

Gee, the multi-verse theory started popping up almost 50 years ago in DC comics to explain the changes in some of their superheroes.

[SunkenCiv]

My Auntie Universe died years ago.

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[allmost]

Bizarrely, it helps if the hill is very large. At first, as you increase the size of the hill, quantum tunneling is suppressed; but then the rate of tunneling dramatically increases

Bizarro world. A theory that predicts everything imaginable with no distinction, predicts nothing. Well on the bright side, I don't have to shave in that universe. Unfortunately... the hairs grow into my face.