RE: Is there really any problem with an infinate regresion of universes?
April 5, 2015 at 8:28 am
(April 2, 2015 at 10:59 am)MrNoMorePropaganda Wrote: Religionists like to claim that there can't be infinite regresses.Only because they give god a special exemption by making him 'eternal.' which, as I often joke, means that it literally took him forever to create the universe. In any event, getting around the problem of who created god by simply giving him a new super-power doesn't really deal with the issue of infinite regress.
I don't know if there's a problem with an infinite regression of universes, or if the multiverse theories are valid or even possible. I simply don't understand the physics anywhere near well enough to say. It's a fascinating concept, especially if you imagine the scale of something like a "bubbling soup of universes." What if this universe is just one of dozens being used by magnificent cosmic entities to play a game of marbles in their reality? What if some of the dust motes we wipe off of our furniture are universes like ours, whose intelligent life make up such a tiny fraction of its mass that they measure its distance in billions of light years?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould