Multiverse - Critiques, Theories, Evidence: Multiverse theories have been widely criticized as speculation or philosophy rather than science, which is indeed a legitimate concern regarding the more-disconnected types of multiverses. Less legitimate are c
However, this situation is far from hopeless, as indirect evidence can be garnered to either support or refute the theory. Our essential reasoning is the following: the multiverse framework must be able to account for our observations, which consist of measurements of our values of the ...
Conversely, if we ultimately determine that all currently unknown habitability conditions turn out to be in line with multiverse expectations, we will accrue a long list of supporting evidence for the theory. It remains to check the compatibility of each habitability condition with the multiverse ...
Yet lines of corroborating evidence (beyond the elegance of the equations) have convinced many cosmologists to such a degree that cosmic inflation and eternal chaotic inflation have become, in essence, the "standard model" of cosmology. As for cosmic inflation, it seems to solve, at the same t...
The big knock on string theory, however, is that it lacks any observational evidence. Observational evidence for the multiverse itself isn’t that much more promising. But researchers have some prospects. For example, if a neighboring bubble universe happens to bump into our own, it would leave...
Hertog and Hawking used their new theory to derive more reliable predictions about the global structure of the universe. They predicted the universe that emerges from eternal inflation on the past boundary is finite and far simpler than the infinite fractal structure predicted by the old theory of...
Or, in 50 years, physicists may sheepishly present evidence that the early 21st-century’s pet cosmological theory was wrong. “We are working on a problem that is very hard, and so we should think about this on a very long time scale,” Polchinskihas advised other physicists. That’s no...
extant literature has provided limited evidence on (i) how NFR regulation affects (if at all) corporate reporting, (ii) whether such regulated reporting affects the users of corporate reports and, (iii) whether mandatory NFR has any 鈥渞eal effects鈥on how firms affect society and natural envir...
theory is too difficult for monkeys. It’s conceivable that machine intelligence could explore the geometrical intricacies of some string theories and spew out, for instance, some generic features of the standard model. We’d then have confidence in the theory and take its other ...
When this knowledge is gained, we will be able to compare with the predictions the multiverse framework has given us; if the results match, we will have evidence for the multiverse, and if they do not, we will have evidence against it. Though this will not be an easy undertaking, it ...