RE: Isn't the fine tuning argument ad hoc?
July 26, 2013 at 6:15 pm
(This post was last modified: July 26, 2013 at 6:38 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Is pressure release a parsimonious explanation for why there is more CO2 above a glass of champagne? It involves a vast number of redundant bubbles.
At its most basic, multiverse isn't the addition of an unnecessary assumption. Rather it is the subtraction of an unsupported, albeit as yet in falsified, assumption. Unique Universe asserts for some reason what we see for which we know of no cause is the only way things can be, and there is special cobstraints, as yet unknown, that prevented physical constants from being anything else. Multiverse does not assert that our universe is the only one, or that our physical constants are as the only way they could be. The most basic version of multiverse hypothesis simply allows these two dubious constraints to be removed and see what follows.
Multiverse could be thought of as the most parsimonious interpretation of reality possible based on what is really known of how the laws of physics work at its most basic level.
Unique universe view actually requires certain assumption which follows from no known first principle, and more overarching than could feasibly be verified by observation, to be taken for granted.
Multiverse theory on the other hand, removes these assumptions.
At its most basic, multiverse isn't the addition of an unnecessary assumption. Rather it is the subtraction of an unsupported, albeit as yet in falsified, assumption. Unique Universe asserts for some reason what we see for which we know of no cause is the only way things can be, and there is special cobstraints, as yet unknown, that prevented physical constants from being anything else. Multiverse does not assert that our universe is the only one, or that our physical constants are as the only way they could be. The most basic version of multiverse hypothesis simply allows these two dubious constraints to be removed and see what follows.
Multiverse could be thought of as the most parsimonious interpretation of reality possible based on what is really known of how the laws of physics work at its most basic level.
Unique universe view actually requires certain assumption which follows from no known first principle, and more overarching than could feasibly be verified by observation, to be taken for granted.
Multiverse theory on the other hand, removes these assumptions.
