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Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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Originally posted by seer View PostI'm not sure Boxing how this would actually correlate to actual physical properties we would see or not see in possible universes. What physical property could we actually observe that would falsify the multiverse model."[Mathematics] is the revealer of every genuine truth, for it knows every hidden secret, and bears the key to every subtlety of letters; whoever, then, has the effrontery to pursue physics while neglecting mathematics should know from the start he will never make his entry through the portals of wisdom."
--Thomas Bradwardine, De Continuo (c. 1325)
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Originally posted by seer View PostI'm not sure Boxing how this would actually correlate to actual physical properties we would see or not see in possible universes. What physical property could we actually observe that would falsify the multiverse model.Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them? Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Act III:
go with the flow the river knows . . .
Frank
I do not know, therefore everything is in pencil.
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Originally posted by Boxing Pythagoras View PostThis would be an experiment with the hypothesis that the researcher lives in a universe amongst the posited multiverse wherein that quantum event was delayed for an inordinately longer than average period of time. An early death would falsify that hypothesis.Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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Originally posted by shunyadragon View PostA number of possible models have been falsified and not considered possible based on our present knowledge of physics and cosmology. Various current models have unresolved problems, such as variations that include the standard Big Bang expansion models, and Steinhardt's cyclic model, but these problem have not as of yet falsified these models. Remember the theorems and models are developed to demonstrated possibility of multiverses and not that they already exist. The same scientific methods were used to demonstrate the possibility of black holes, dark matter and energy.Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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There are things that pop into existence out of nothing though, and disappear split seconds later (quarks?)
I don't know the science that is involved - but it seems conceivable that these things aren't actually popping in and out of existence, but crossing from universe to universe.
Or if not these things, some other particles perhaps.1Cor 15:34 Come to your senses as you ought and stop sinning; for I say to your shame, there are some who know not God.
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Scripture before Tradition:
but that won't prevent others from
taking it upon themselves to deprive you
of the right to call yourself Christian.
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Originally posted by seer View PostYes, that is a clever argument. But how does that translate in to the actual physical properties we observe in the universe."[Mathematics] is the revealer of every genuine truth, for it knows every hidden secret, and bears the key to every subtlety of letters; whoever, then, has the effrontery to pursue physics while neglecting mathematics should know from the start he will never make his entry through the portals of wisdom."
--Thomas Bradwardine, De Continuo (c. 1325)
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Originally posted by Boxing Pythagoras View PostI'm not sure I understand. I think the idea that a universe is one amongst a multiverse is a fairly obvious physical property indicated in that hypothesis.
Yet some proponents of inflation who celebrated the BICEP2 announcement already insist that the theory is equally valid whether or not gravitational waves are detected. How is this possible?
The answer given by proponents is alarming: the inflationary paradigm is so flexible that it is immune to experimental and observational tests. First, inflation is driven by a hypothetical scalar field, the inflation, which has properties that can be adjusted to produce effectively any outcome. Second, inflation does not end with a universe with uniform properties, but almost inevitably leads to a multiverse with an infinite number of bubbles, in which the cosmic and physical properties vary from bubble to bubble. The part of the multiverse that we observe corresponds to a piece of just one such bubble. Scanning over all possible bubbles in the multi*verse, every*thing that can physically happen does happen an infinite number of times. No experiment can rule out a theory that allows for all possible outcomes. Hence, the paradigm of inflation is unfalsifiable…Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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Originally posted by tabibito View PostThere are things that pop into existence out of nothing though, and disappear split seconds later (quarks?)
I don't know the science that is involved - but it seems conceivable that these things aren't actually popping in and out of existence, but crossing from universe to universe.
Or if not these things, some other particles perhaps.Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them? Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Act III:
go with the flow the river knows . . .
Frank
I do not know, therefore everything is in pencil.
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Thanks.1Cor 15:34 Come to your senses as you ought and stop sinning; for I say to your shame, there are some who know not God.
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Scripture before Tradition:
but that won't prevent others from
taking it upon themselves to deprive you
of the right to call yourself Christian.
⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛
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Originally posted by seer View PostWhat? I'm trying to find out how you could actually falsify the multiverse theory by observation.
That is to say, you are asking too much by expecting a single experiment which could falsify even all of a single multiverse hypothesis, let alone the several disparate ones which are being explored."[Mathematics] is the revealer of every genuine truth, for it knows every hidden secret, and bears the key to every subtlety of letters; whoever, then, has the effrontery to pursue physics while neglecting mathematics should know from the start he will never make his entry through the portals of wisdom."
--Thomas Bradwardine, De Continuo (c. 1325)
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Originally posted by seer View PostI'm asking you Tass, what would you need to believe in God?
If He spoke to you? Would that do it? And really, how is the multiverse theory any more than a philosophical argument since it can not be falsified by observation?
There is good reason to think that such experiences are no more than an evolved biological feature of the human brain and amenable to normal scientific study – as has been undertaken by the likes of Cosimo Urgesi, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Udine and many others, who are investigating the neural basis of spiritual experiences.
No Tass, you really do not understand Steinhardt’s objection. You could NEVER falsify ANY multiverse theory by observation. Try to follow the logic here. Any type of multiverse could produce any kind of universe - literally an infinite number of universes with an infinite number of different properties or configurations. The only universe we can actually observe is ours - and our universe has specific properties. But a multiverse could produce ANY outcome. How could you EVER falsify a theory that could literally produce ANY outcome by observation?
Even though only some components of the multiverse models have been verified and are falsifiable to date, the overall convergence of the evidence continues to support a multiverse because this is the model with the greatest explanatory power and the one which is continually being reinforced by ongoing exploration.
Frankly your demand for complete watertight evidence is unreasonable given the complexity and newness of multiverse theory - especially when your preferred ‘god-did-it’ hypothesis is supported by nothing more than subjective religious experience. Talk about double standards!
So Tass, in the future don't dare play the "science" card on me since it is clear you are willing to chuck the scientific method when it comes to your belief.“He felt that his whole life was a kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.” - Douglas Adams.
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A falsifiable Multi-verse would still not exclude God at any rate, since the question: "is the Greater Cosmos, the quantum vacuum, the zero point field, or whatever you want to call it, from out of which universes are born, is it itself eternal or created," would remain unanswered. But, we would still have no evidence of a creator, or a need for one.
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Originally posted by Boxing Pythagoras View PostGenerally, experiments are formed to falsify particular aspects or properties of a model. It is usually asking far to much to address a whole model by a single experiment. In rare cases, the property being tested is so crucial to the model that the whole concept falls apart without it, but more often than not, falsification of one property leads to a refinement-- not an abandonment-- of the model.
That is to say, you are asking too much by expecting a single experiment which could falsify even all of a single multiverse hypothesis, let alone the several disparate ones which are being explored.
The answer given by proponents is alarming: the inflationary paradigm is so flexible that it is immune to experimental and observational tests. First, inflation is driven by a hypothetical scalar field, the inflation, which has properties that can be adjusted to produce effectively any outcome. Second, inflation does not end with a universe with uniform properties, but almost inevitably leads to a multiverse with an infinite number of bubbles, in which the cosmic and physical properties vary from bubble to bubble. The part of the multiverse that we observe corresponds to a piece of just one such bubble. Scanning over all possible bubbles in the multi*verse, every*thing that can physically happen does happen an infinite number of times. No experiment can rule out a theory that allows for all possible outcomes. Hence, the paradigm of inflation is unfalsifiable…
He makes this point clear with the recent discovery of gravitational waves (which since has been rejected):
Yet some proponents of inflation who celebrated the BICEP2 announcement already insist that the theory is equally valid whether or not gravitational waves are detected.Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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