Why Some Scientists Embrace the 'Multiverse

Discussion in 'Politics' started by jem, Jul 8, 2013.

  1. jem

    jem

    which brings us back to this point..

    do you belive a troll like Stu...

    or this guy...





    Leonard Susskind (born 1 January 1940)[2] is the Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics at Stanford University, and Director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. His research interests include string theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics and quantum cosmology.[1] He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences,[3] and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,[4] an associate member of the faculty of Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,[5] and a distinguished professor of the Korea Institute for Advanced Study.[6]
    Susskind is widely regarded as one of the fathers of string theory,[7] having, with Yoichiro Nambu and Holger Bech Nielsen, independently introduced the idea that particles could in fact be states of excitation of a relativistic string.[8] He was the first to introduce the idea of the string theory landscape in 2003.[9]
    Susskind was awarded the 1998 J. J. Sakurai Prize.[10]

     
    #161     Jul 22, 2013
  2. jem

    jem

    1. if you don't want to go with Susskind...

    2. you can go with Hawking...

    ".... In particular a bottom-up approach to cosmology either requires one to postulate an initial state of the universe that is carefully fine-tuned [10] - as if prescribed by an outside agency"or..


    you can read the "or: yourself I have given it to you dozens of times.


    http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/hep-th/pdf/0602/0602091v2.pdf



    or

    3. carr

    “If there is only one universe,” British cosmologist Bernard Carr says, “you might have to have a fine-tuner. If you don’t want God, you’d better have a multiverse.” (Discover, December 2008)
     
    #162     Jul 22, 2013
  3. jem

    jem

  4. jem

    jem

  5. piezoe

    piezoe

    Jem, You sure that wasn't British Cosmetologist Bernard Carr. Here's his latest creation:
    http://paulmitchell.edu/files/public/timg/ce3538e3081f451d25aed213e61b9a65.jpg
     
    #165     Jul 22, 2013
  6. jem

    jem

    had you been interested in learning something other than leftist talking points... you might have clicked on the link to Professor Carr's video at the top of the page. I don't think you would have been ignorant enough to mistake him for a cosmetologist.


     
    #166     Jul 22, 2013
  7. Ricter

    Ricter

    What does "leftist" have to do with god or no god? After all, Obama is a Muslim.
     
    #167     Jul 22, 2013
  8. jem

    jem

    in this case... I was just commenting on piezoe's recent defense of the IRS which was similar to the leftist talking points we see on MSNBC.

    Its odd the a leftist likes you is able to say Obama is a Muslim. I am willing say say factaully that obama is in favor of the right to kill babies as they are exiting the womb... making him unlikely to be a Christian in the following Christ and not harming children sense of the word... but I have no information he is a currently a Muslim.

    I like to keeps facts and opinions separate.

     
    #168     Jul 22, 2013
  9. Ricter

    Ricter

    Me, I don't think Obama is a Muslim, I was repeating what so many here say.
     
    #169     Jul 22, 2013
  10. stu

    stu

    Talking of 'Obama is a Muslim', that's all over the net too. Doesn't mean it's correct.. you idiot. Funny how you have "no information of it" though.

    String theory was begun in 1940 when Susskind was 3 years old. How exactly does that make him the co founder.
    What's so laughable is you are in any event hyping up Susskind as co founder of a scientific theory which leaves your silly notions of fine-tuning utterly derisible and pointless.

    But let's face it, you haven't any kind of a clue what the hell you're doing anyway.

    ..by all means..

    "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going." Stephen Hawking
     
    #170     Jul 23, 2013