Our Improbable Existence Is No Evidence for a Multiverse
Experts in probability have spotted a logical flaw in theorists’ reasoning.
Scientific American
Topics: Multiverse Universe
Big Bounce Simulations Challenge the Big Bang
Detailed computer simulations have found that a cosmic contraction can generate features of the universe that we observe today.
Quanta Magazine
Topics: Big Bang Cosmic Inflation Cosmic Origins Multiverse Universe
Big Space
Our planet is a tiny porthole, looking over a cosmic sea. Can we learn what lies beyond our own horizons of perception?
Aeon
Topics: Cosmic Inflation Cosmic Origins Multiverse Universe
Philosophy of Cosmology
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Closer To Truth
Topics: Big Bang Cosmic Inflation Meaning Multiverse Universe
‘Einstein’s Biggest Blunder’ May Have Finally Been Fixed
The cosmological constant has plagued physicists for more than a century.
Live Science
Topics: Dark Energy Gravity Multiverse Relativity Universe
‘Cosmological Koans’ Review: Matter and Mystics
Eastern philosophies can have an uncanny congruence with cutting-edge physics.
The Wall Street Journal
Topics: Anthony Aguirre Cosmic Origins Multiverse Nature of Time Quantum Mechanics Reality Universe
Quantum Monism Could Save the Soul of Physics
The multiverse may be an artifact of a deeper reality that is comprehensible and unique.
Topics: Entanglement Multiverse Quantum Mechanics Reality Universe
Thinking Really Big
UC Santa Cruz Magazine
Topics: Anthony Aguirre Cosmic Inflation Cosmic Origins Multiverse Reality Technology Universe
What’s the Reality Behind Multiverses and Alternate Realities?
What makes the idea of the multiverse special is that it’s unique among sci-fi tropes in its acceptance from the general population and some factions of the scientific community as a potentially factual reality. But is that confidence deserved?
Syfy Wire
Topics: Cosmic Inflation Multiverse String Theory
Philosophy Has Made Plenty of Progress
Philosopher Tim Maudlin sees advances in free will, morality, and the meaning of quantum mechanics.
Cross-Check, Scientific American
Topics: Consciousness Ethics Free Will Multiverse Quantum Mechanics
The Fourth Copernican Revolution
Is our universe one island in an archipelago?
Nautilus
Topics: Big Bang Martin Rees Multiverse Universe
What Is Nothing? Martin Rees Q&A
From a mysterious energy of empty space to parallel universes, cosmology’s view of ‘nothing’ is anything but boring.
The Conversation
Topics: Dark Energy Martin Rees Multiverse String Theory Universe
String Theory May Create Far Fewer Universes Than Thought
Some physicists claim the popular landscape of universes in string theory may not exist.
Topics: Dark Energy Multiverse String Theory Universe
Parallel Universes Could Be Hospitable to Life, Scientists Say
New research conducted by scientists from Durham University, Western Sydney University, and the University of Western Australia has demonstrated that other universes may in fact harbor the conditions to support life — if they exist.
Newsweek
Topics: Dark Energy Extraterrestrial Life Multiverse
Stephen Hawking’s (Almost) Last Paper: Putting an End to the Beginning of the Universe
In his last paper on cosmology, Stephen Hawking and a younger colleague attacked cosmic inflation and its discontents.
Science
Topics: Big Bang Cosmic Inflation Cosmic Origins Multiverse Stephen Hawking Universe
Making Sense of Many Universes
Q&A with theoretical physicist John Donoghue.
Knowable Magazine
Topics: Multiverse
Why Earth’s History Appears So Miraculous
The strange, cosmic reason our evolutionary path will look ever luckier the longer we survive.
The Atlantic
Topics: Anthony Aguirre Bias Multiverse Quantum Mechanics Universe
Cosmic Thinker Worries About Ends of Science and Humanity
Cosmologist Martin Rees holds forth on multiverses, biothreats, AI, utopia, God, and “posthuman” science.
Topics: Limits of Science Martin Rees Multiverse Technology
Universes With No Weak Force Might Still Have Stars and Life
An alternate cosmos could do without one of the fundamental forces, physicists say.
Science News
Scientific Theory and the Multiverse Madness
An increasing number of theoretical physicists think that our universe is only one among infinitely many — but this speculation is not based on sound logic, says Sabine Hossenfelder.
13.7: Cosmos & Culture
The Case for Cosmic Pantheism
In multiverse cosmologies, we find a creative principle that is the ever-evolving universe itself. This sort of theology, which identifies God with the physical universe, is a position historically known as pantheism.
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