At Mind Matters News: Sabine Hossenfelder asks, is the multiverse science or religion?

Or pseudoscience? The no-nonsense theoretical physicist reveals a gift for comedy as she tries to explain theories that place no constraints on what can happen:

Don’t miss her take on Many Worlds and the String Theory Landscape, especially if you wish to experience “elephants in the room which you coincidentally can’t see” — oh, and getting married to Elon Musk (but maybe only in that universe). On a serious note, she later addresses specific claims from physicists who defend the idea.

News, “Sabine Hossenfelder asks, is the multiverse science or religion?” at Mind Matters News (September 11, 2022)

Takehome: Introducing her new book, Existential Physics, Hossenfelder makes a strong case that the multiverse is not right or wrong; it’s fun but not really science.

Here are some other articles you may enjoy about the multiverse concept:

In an infinity of universes, is another you reading this article?

In an infinity of universes, countless ones are run by cats

Multiverse cosmology is not a good argument against God

Here is a way we can be sure if we are living in a multiverse. (Eric Holloway)

We don’t live in a multiverse because the concept makes nosense (Michael Egnor)

Is Big Bang Theory’s Sheldon right re the multiverse? (Robert J. Marks)

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