In addition, multiverse advocates must affirm that an inflaton field plus some string-theory universe-generating mechanism can together produce enough different universes to render probable the origin of the finely tuned initial conditions, laws, and constants of our universe.25 Bruce Gordon likens accepting all these postulations to believing “six impossible things before breakfast,” as in the Alice in Wonderland story—with, that is, a few more impossible (or at least implausible) things thrown in for good measure.
