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To: TigerPaw who wrote (64968)	1/19/2015 11:43:43 PM
From: John	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Interesting thoughts. Have you ever read about the Boltzmann brain paradox? Even within the context of what you described, we are still limited by our inability to comprehend infinity in spatial and temporal terms, which is the limited way that we measure things. Even when we try to leap beyond our reality and mathematically define other dimensions, we still limit those when there actually are no limits. For example, the expanding foam that you mentioned, which may have a definable edge, exists in something larger that has no edge, no beginning, and no end. That is what we cannot comprehend, but we will try all the way to the grave to understand it within our limited mentality -- and isn't it bizarre that we are aware that we have a limited mentality! We know that there is something call infinity, but we can't understand it. Sure, we can say that we understand that infinity means that time and space go on forever in all directions, but really try to imagine what that means for a moment. It's quite maddening. -g- In our minds, we try to imagine what it would be like if we could travel to the edge of the universe, but there is no edge. Or, even if there are other dimensions beyond our dimension, there are no limits to those.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (64968)

1/20/2015 2:05:33 AM

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Pod: Multiverse: Avoiding the evidence of design in our universe

January 19, 2015

Posted by News under Design inference, Multiverse, News

Hey, we can avoid anything if we are determined, right?

Here:

Which requires more faith? A belief in multiple universes or a belief in the intelligent design of our universe? On this episode of ID The Future, host David Boze explores the ideas found in a Harper’s Magazine article by MIT physicist and author Alan Lightman. Some physicists attempt to side-step the intelligent design implications of our finely-tuned universe by suggesting that ours is merely one of countless universes, each with its own laws and constants.

Lightman: “If the multiverse idea is correct, then the historic mission of physics to explain all the properties of our universe…is futile, a beautiful philosophical dream that simply isn’t true.”

.So we pay taxes to support science for what reason exactly? Not opposing it, just wondering.

The Science Fictions series at your fingertips (cosmology).