From: John Burgeson (burgythree@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Apr 11 2003 - 14:29:28 EDT
>>My understanding is that these successes have driven most cosmologists who
concern themselves with the anthropic principle to retreat to multiple
universe theories, where, out of many existing universes, ours by chance is
the only one that happens to be finely tuned to support human life. >>
I don't believe the "multile universe" theory posits that ONLY our universe
can support life. Maybe some variation of it does, though.
I am more entranced by the "practically infinite" universe theory which
denys the Schrodinger's Cat interpretation of QM by positing that at such
junctures the universe splits into two -- one where the cat is dead -- one
where it is alive.
The interesting thing is that this infinite universe theory CAN be
empirically tested. So far that test has not been performed, AFAIK.
Burgy
www.burgy.50megs.com
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