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Old 19-09-2013, 04:08 PM
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Originally Posted by sjastro View Post
Cosmology occasionally borders on the philosophical and/or SF.

Brain Greene came closest to bringing up the Anthropic Principle, namely if the Universe was any different we wouldn't be around to observe it, hence our existence is simply coincidental with the parameters as they are, rather than the parameters being fine tuned for our existence to occur.
I much prefer this explanation.

There is much resistance in mainstream science to a Multiverse.
The Multiverse is beyond our Universe's particle horizon hence there is no way we can test for its existence. This puts it beyond the realm of Science into Philosophy.

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Steven
i find most theories fascinating, i do start to struggle when a model is relying on some kind of 'other' that can't be tested. it seems to me a shifting of the goal posts is happening, to some degree atleast, to make a solution fit.

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