I do understand the basic concepts reported in the article, and so it being a serious theory, I hesitate launching one of my lighter blurbs...but, do you suppose that our current universe is the result of some sharp teen-ager playing around in a higher universe with a school homework lab?
It does create myriad fascinating possibilities. You could create your own universe and have it your way. And if things go south, just walk away and create another one more to your liking!
Back in the Forties, Robert Heinlein wrote a pulp sci-fi story exploring precisely this scenario. The flaw of this universe was the "Bird" and the "Sons of the Bird". Keywords: "The Bird is cruel."
That would explain a lot.
...do you suppose that our current universe is the result of some sharp teen-ager playing around in a higher universe with a school homework lab?
Someone on FR the other day mentioned something very similar to what you just said. It floored me when I read it then. Perhaps it was you. Anyhow, it just happened again.
In 1982 while pondering cosmic questions related to my life and the human species I imagined a guy with long white hair and beard wearing a black leather motorcycle jacket working on his college thesis paper and created a universe in the process.
Three years prior to that I imagined scenario of multiple universes as chicken broth soup and how the oil spots separate and collect. About a year later I read a similar scenario using boiling steam bubbles.
Sixteen years prior to that in second grade learning about the solar system the teacher said then there is the Universe and that's it. As soon as she said that I imagined a picture beyond the Universe. Told my mom about it that afternoon.
Jumping ahead. After the leather jacket guy image, in 1987, again pondering the cosmos and my and the human species relation with it I created an animation in my mind of a guy sitting with his dog on the stoop of his country home -- looking up at the clear night sky and pondering how it all came about. Suddenly he remembered his bowl of soup waiting for him in the kitchen was probably getting cold. He stood up, turned and opened the door.
The dog followed him though the door and they were in the kitchen. There in the center of the kitchen was a lone table with a red and white checkered table cloth and a bowl of soup. He sat at the table and peered into the soup. His mind wandered back to his thoughts out on the stoop. As he pondered this his subconscious was aware of a speck of pepper floating across the coup t the edge. It moved up the edge of the bowl, down the outside of it and proceeded across the table cloth to the edge -- down the table cloth to the table leg all the way to the floor. Continuing toward the door it was getting larger -- going though the doorway, on the other side, it was him sitting on the stoop with his dog looking up at the night sky pondering how it all come about. It was like a daydream. I thought about it for awhile. Latter that day I conveyed the animation it to a friend. I did the same years earlier with the multiple universe day-dream like image.
Almost there.
Three years later, April 1990, I listened to the author of The Long Wave give a presentation of it on audio cassette. Originally developed/written in 1985, he disturbed it back then as a litmus test. Now on the WWW titled A Cosmology of Infinite Riches. I was astonished. For, it paralleled what I had developed but his was in much greater detail -- scientific as well as traversing the five branches of philosophy.
Here it is.
1) Conscious beings acquire new knowledge. Knowledge begets new knowledge inductively and deductively.
2) Technology advances exponentially. The Law of Accelerating Returns explains how it has progressed in history of life on earth and man's advancement of technology. A brief glimpse to empasize: How communications technology advanced over the past 150 years. Telegraph used to track train movements > radio > telephone > telex > computer networks > Internet > FAX > cell phone > WWW > WiMAX broadband. Another one -- computation technology is on the cusp of it's fifth wave advancement. The second waive of computation was the vacuum tube computer -- ENIAC. Moore's law over 35 years has doubled the transistors per unit measure on a CPU and reduced the cost from ten dollars per transistor to a hundredth-of-a-penny per transistor. A video wherein Ray Kurzweil explains the law of accelerating returns and much more is here. One more. Conscious humans have far outpaced evolution. 3,000 yeas ago man lived to the age of 25. That was normal throughout most of man's pre-conscious history. Today, human longevity is 78 years. We're at the knee of the curve in advancing technology. The cusp of an explosion of rapidly advancing technology.
3) Conscious beings increasingly understand nature to increasingly control nature. Man has certainly progressed and increased prosperity by advancing technology -- ever increasing control of nature. Man is in his infancy of advancing technology.
4) Albert Einstein identified/acknowledged two macro components of existence. 1) matter, and 2) energy. There's a third macro component. 3) consciousness.
5) Conscious beings are the controllers of mater and energy.
When will conscious humans have the information, knowledge, tools and technologies to create universes? What traditions and status quos -- some having endured for thousands of years -- will be rendered obsolete by conscious man and woman coming into their own? The answer to the first question probably won't be known for at least fifty years. The second question is mostly knowable now. Take in the information at the three links given in this post.