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To: Brumar89 who wrote (51296)4/1/2014 7:09:54 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (2) of 69300
 
the value of multiverse

The study of the multiverse is one way to examine the limits of randomness in our universe. If our universe has no random component, then the whole universe is predestined to some outcome. It may be complex, but it would be completely determined. (i.e no free-will, no possibility to influence the future).

Now in my current thinking the multiverse is unlikely to such a degree as to be essentially impossible. That is because it requires or implies an infinity of universes which actually get larger at a non-linear rate as time goes on. Mathematically, not all infinities are the same and this infinity is much much larger than competing possibilities (and therefore much much less likely to represent reality). Still, it would not be the first thing that I didn't understand.

There are other ways to prove there is no God (or at least no goal in the unfolding of the universe). They mostly involve the essential randomness at the heart of physics. There may be an infinity of possibilities, but they don't all have to actually happen.
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