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
String Theory May Create Far Fewer Universes Than Thought
Some physicists claim the popular landscape of universes in string theory may not exist.
Scientific American
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
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
Topics: Multiverse Universe
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.
Martin Rees on Speculative Physics
Astronomer Royal Martin Rees on the size of the physical universe, reconciling the physics of the very small with the physics of the very large, and more.
Big Questions Online
Topics: Big Bang Martin Rees Multiverse String Theory Universe
Multiverse – Where Do We Go from Here?
What is the latest on the theory of the multiverse? A new interview series asks world-famous physicists.
Closer To Truth
Topics: Cosmic Inflation Multiverse
Pondering the Imponderables: The Biggest Questions of Cosmology
Physicists and cosmologists are closing in on how the universe operates at its very core. But even with powerful telescopes and particle accelerators pushed nearly to their limits, experimenters struggle to keep up as theoreticians march forward, leaving grand theories untested.
World Science Festival
Topics: Alan Guth Andrei Linde Cosmic Inflation Infinity Multiverse String Theory Universe
A Cold War Among Cosmologists Turns Hot
Two camps of theorists are bickering in public — with one saying the others’ ideas don’t even qualify as science.
The Atlantic
Topics: Alan Guth Andrei Linde Avi Loeb Cosmic Inflation Multiverse
Evil Triumphs in These Multiverses, and God Is Powerless
How scientific cosmology puts a new twist on the problem of evil.
Topics: Multiverse Problem of Evil
Stars Burning Strangely Make Life in the Multiverse More Likely
Supporters of the multiverse often cite a specific reaction in stars that seems tuned for life, making our universe improbable — but now there’s a new idea.
New Scientist
Topics: Extraterrestrial Life Multiverse Stars Universe
In the Beginning
Cosmology has been on a long, hot streak, racking up one imaginative and scientific triumph after another. Is it over?
Aeon
Topics: Big Bang Cosmic Inflation Multiverse Universe
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