(December 25, 2017 at 10:34 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(December 25, 2017 at 8:18 pm)Grandizer Wrote: My point is that saying a universe containing a multiverse is like saying a family member containing the family.
And if youre making a joke, its lost on me. Sorry.
To me, this whole scientific branch is basically someone smoking a joint and saying, "It's all. . . circles in circles in circles, maaaannnn!"
That being said, fractals. There's no reason why you couldn't have universes nested inside super-universes. There's also no reason why every singularity in OUR universe might not itself be a complete universe in its own right. Who knows? Maybe at the heart of every subatomic particle is an entire dimension. There's really no limit to what might constitute reality.
But at some point you have to stop smoking that joint and ask. . . what seems to be the case based on what we can currently observe? And I'm 99% sure that the multiverse theory is purely mathematical rather than scientific.
Im sure people in the distant past were thinking something similar about people speculating about entities beyond this planet or beyond the solar system or galaxy.
And yes, a lot of the hypotheses and interpretations popping up recently out of nowhere (silly joke intended) is based on a lot of maths. I have been told that the many worlds interpretation is mathematically the neatest explanation of the shit going on at the quantum level. Other interpretations have to add extra stuff to the formulas and equations or whatever. I have no idea exactly the details, so you might want to consult the smarter people like Alex_K about the maths.
