proponents of the inflationary multiverse argue that, since the inflaton field can produce an infinite number of other universes, every event that has occurred in our universe is bound to occur somewhere endlessly many times. It follows that events or conditions that appear extremely improbable, considering only our universe, are actually highly probable—or even inevitable. Sooner or later some universe had to acquire the finely tuned conditions necessary to sustain life. Our universe just happened to be the lucky one. According to this theory, since we only observe the bubble universe in
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