The multiverse has become a talking point on Capitol Hill

You can’t ground a discussion in basic reality, says one commentator, “without somebody, sooner rather than later, confidently pronouncing something like “our universe is just one of many universes that are constantly evolving and forever changing.” He offers a response, courtesy Regis Nicoll:

Everett imagined that each split created a parallel universe in which particles existed as mirror images of themselves. The result is that every possible state of a particle is realized somewhere.

“Taking many-worlds to its logical conclusion, cosmology consultant Marcus Chown quipped, ‘Elvis didn’t die on that loo eating a burger but is still alive in an infinite number of places.’

“The problems with many-worlds are many, including where all of these parallel universes exist, how an entire universe can be created by an infinitesimal change in a particle’s state, and the endless stream of universes created by every object in the cosmos at every moment in time. Mark Tapscott, “So You Think That Neat ‘Multiverse’ Theory Explains It All …” at HillFaith Blog

Well, you’ve got to hand it to many-worlds (multiverse) theory. It does explain the world of the tabloids, where Elvis lives. And always will.

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Regis Nicoll is a retired nuclear engineer and a fellow of the Colson Center who writes commentary on faith and culture.

See also: Sabine Hossenfelder: The Multiverse Is “A Fringe Idea”

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