In my opinion no. We know for a fact a universe is possible and there is one example of a universe. It is as speculative to say we are the only universe as it is to say there are others. There has never been a god proved on facts, it is pure speculation.
you could just as easily go the opposite way... The universe is the creation that testifies to a Creator in the absence of facts to the contrary. the multiverse is speculation to the contrary... not facts to the contrary.
Universe/multiverse. If you are an atheist, the multiverse hypothesis is a godsend. As cosmologist Bernard Carr told Discover magazine, âIf there is only one universe you might have to have a fine-tuner. If you donât want God, youâd better have a multiverse.â Like the God hypothesis (or Linusâs Great Pumpkin hypothesis), the multiverse hypothesis is a tidy catch-all for getting out of every thorny dilemma of probability: Lifeâs beginning? âWith God the multiverse all things are possible.â Consciousness? âDitto.â If you adopt belief in The Great Pumpkin the multiverse, it makes every implausibility inevitable. But how the multiverse multiplies itself, or ever arrived at its spectacular powers of creation, who knows? If atheists have a god in the closet, itâs Fortuna, their Great Pumpkin. http://spritzophrenia.wordpress.com/2010/11/08/the-multiverse-returns-or-daddy-is-there-a-god/
Actually, it might make some sense, only it's wrong. Jem seems to think that multiple universes were an ad hoc hypothesis to explain the "fine tuning". If that were the case, it might be a better hypothesis than "a godly miracle did it", but still a hypothesis. However, multiple universes are permanently generated in the 11 dimensional space that string theory is based on. This follows from the brane dynamics of that space, and has nothing to do with fine tuning. The natural explanation of fine tuning is not the motive, but only a byproduct of string theory. There are many papers on the Internet about the birth of universes, f.i : http://www.cyberastronomo.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=dvNBo3WeWIM=&tabid=78&mid=432
According to the authority you keep repeating like a crazed cut&paste machine-bot, the answer is no. Leonard Susskind included "The Illusion of Intelligent Design" in his book title. So 'a tuner' doesn't even make it to speculative.
It makes no sense and it's wrong. The universe testifies to a universe in the absence of facts to the contrary.
how can you keep misrepresenting what Susskind says... I give you the video... don't you get tired of lying. In the video he says one possibility for the tuning is God. another possibility is multiverse. Note... the multiverse has not been observed or proven. In fact string theory has not been proven. It is a collection of ideas. And so far the Large Hadron Collider has failed to find verify and of string theories expected to results. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/lhc-black-holes-string-theory/ http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2392094,00.asp and it is hurting since the hadron collider did not observe the hoped for results. but wait... the software could be off. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/life-and-physics/2012/apr/01/1 Complex software models are used to understand the results from the Large Hadron Collider. These include simulations of the particle physics in the proton-proton collisions, as well as of the material and geometry of the detectors and the strength of the various magnetic fields. As more data are accumulated, the required precision of this software increases. A recent review recommended that the number of decimal places used to represent numbers in the software should be increased. This means all mathematical constants such as e and pi, as well as physical constants and the measured dimensions of the detectors. So far, so routine. But when adding more precision to pi, a strange effect was noticed. The alignment of charged particle tracks across detector boundaries actually got worse when a more precise value was used. In addition, the agreement between simulation and data also got slightly worse. This really should not happen - more precision should mean better alignment and better agreement. Boring scientists say this is probably evidence that some physicists don't know how to write proper code. However, string theorists have pointed out that a firm prediction of string theory is the existence of extra space-time dimensions. In a space which is curved into a higher dimension, the apparent value of pi can deviate from that seen in real life. And thus the LHC may have proved that they were right all along. More data are needed before we can be sure. Less welcome news for CERN is that since they have been near to the beams for two years, the values of pi used in those parts of the ATLAS which were built in the UK are now hot, and therefore as of today will attract VAT.