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Welcome to the Multiverse
Multiverse Mania makes the big time this week, with a cover story Welcome to the Multiverse by Brian Greene in Newsweek. While the title indicates that the Multiverse is here and part of our scientific world-view, the subtitle is a … Continue reading
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String Theory Skeptics and Multiverse Mania
My endless rants here about the hot field of multiverse studies are mainly motivated by concern about the effect this is having on particle theory. Multiverse scenarios all too often function as an excuse for not admitting that string theory/extra-dimensional … Continue reading
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The Ultimate Guide to the Multiverse
Yet another cover story about the Multiverse can be found this week at New Scientist, which calls it The Ultimate Guide to the Multiverse. As just one more in a long line of such stories over the last decade, a … Continue reading
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Welcome to the Multiverse
The October issue of Discover magazine has a new feature, a column by Sean Carroll, whose inaugural effort is now on-line as Welcome to the Multiverse. Sean makes the argument that opposition to multiverse mania is due to people having … Continue reading
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Questions About the Multiverse
The August issue of Scientific American has the multiverse on the cover, with a skeptical feature article on the topic by George F. R. Ellis, Does the Multiverse Really Exist?, which argues that heavily promoted multiverse research isn’t really testable … Continue reading
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Is the Multiverse Immoral?
[Warning, somewhat of a rant follows, and it’s not very original. You might want to skip this one…] In the last week or so, I’ve run into two critiques of the currently fashionable multiverse mania that take an unusual angle … Continue reading
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First Hint That the Multiverse Really Exists
Multiverse mania rolls along, with New Scientist this week running a cover story entitled Touching the Multiverse. They advertise the story by claiming that “we reveal the first hint that the multiverse really exists”. It turns out that this is … Continue reading
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Life in the Multiverse
The latest Scientific American features a cover story on Life in the Multiverse: Could the strange physics of other worlds breed life? The magazine earlier this year fired a third of its staff and replaced its editor (the new editor … Continue reading
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In Search of the Multiverse
The ongoing pseudo-scientific multiverse mania continues, with the recent publication in the UK of a new book by John Gribbin promoting this to the public: In Search of the Multiverse. Gribbin expounds at length the usual string theory anthropic landscape/multiverse … Continue reading
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Manufacturing universes in a fractal multiverse
I gather that the World Science Festival here in New York a week or so ago was a great success, although I was out of town for most of it. The one part of the program I was dubious about … Continue reading
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