22-July-2007, 09:00 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Limpus
I've read some compelling logical arguments that a multiverse would account for the constants being as they are. My favorite one uses the analogy of waking up in a hotel of many different rooms; perhaps someone else remembers exactly how it goes. In any case I'll try to find a link later.
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Here is the quote I was thinking of:
"Although we cannot interact with other Level II parallel universes, cosmologists can infer their presence indirectly, because their existence can account for unexplained coincidences in our universe. To give an analogy, suppose you check into a hotel, are assigned room 1967 and note that this is the year you were born. What a coincidence, you say. After a moment of reflection, however, you conclude that this is not so surprising after all. The hotel has hundreds of rooms, and you would not have been having these thoughts in the first place if you had been assigned one with a number that meant nothing to you. The lesson is that even if you knew nothing about hotels, you could infer the existence of other hotel rooms to explain the coincidence."
Prof. Max Tegmark
http://www.uboeschenstein.ch/boe/the...ltiversum.html
Prof. Max Tegmark's website:
http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/multiverse.html
Last edited by Steve Limpus : 26-July-2007 at 12:55 AM.
Reason: added link
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