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Originally Posted by Spaceman Spiff
However, I am uncertain that even at the present time this is entirely the case for the multiverse "model" (but I'll leave that to Linde et al.), and if you had asked physicists in Mr. Karl Schwarzschild's day whether black holes had a snowball's chance in  to exist in this reality outside of the mathematics of GR or that we could ever study them even if they did, I doubt you'd find many takers. |
But black hole models make specific predictions. It has nothing at all to do with my feeling like something is "unphysical", I would not impose my philosophy. Indeed, my whole point is that there is no need to invoke philosophy at all-- we find the truth by looking. It is clear enough to me what we are looking at when we talk about black holes-- what are we "looking at" when it comes to multiverses? My problem is not that they make predictions that I find unlikely, my problem is that they don't make predictions at all. And if they do, they are sure doing a far worse job of publicizing those predictions than they are of weaving semi-scientific parables to convince others of the absence of mystery here.