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To be science, a theory needs testable hypotheses and falsifiability. Per my understanding, the multiverse theories have neither. Just because scientists specu
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 8y ago
To be science, a theory needs testable hypotheses and falsifiability. Per my understanding, the multiverse theories have neither. Just because scientists speculate about something, doesn’t make it science, just as a lot of Isaac Newton’s speculations were not science.
In the Middle Ages, learned people used to debate how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. Now they debate multiverses. Neither are really science.
- xamuel 8y agoQuite right. Incidentally, you might be interested in a recent paper of mine arguing that one extremely specific type of 'multiverse' (an extremely specific type of our living in a simulation run in a higher universe) is falsifiable. It's a super short paper using a deus-ex-machina you would never guess: soft errors! :) https://philpapers.org/archive/ALEATO-6.pdf https://philpapers.org/archive/ALEATO-6.pdf
- yedawg 8y agoif "angels" are subatomic particles then... lmao
- brookhaven_dude 8y agoAnd yet someone like Newton did speculate on those matters. Just because something is not science does not mean it does not warrant our attention. Or is not fun to contemplate.