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Post by swamprat on Jan 14, 2017 18:21:28 GMT -6
If Our Universe Is Just a Random Occurrence, Science Has a Big Problem by Robby Berman, September 18, 2016
According to theoretical physicist Alan Lightman, scientists — and in particular, physicists — have long assumed that they’d someday be able to work out the basic principles and laws that logically and inevitably lead to our universe. Current theories, however, raise another, very unnerving possibility.
So what do we do if what causes the cosmos can lead to myriad outcomes, of which our universe is just a single, random one? Remove its inevitability, and you remove the ability to empirically test the validity of any of our theories. If what we observe is only one possible outcome, how do we prove or disprove anything? Should we just give up trying? Has the logic of theoretical physics undone science itself?
Down the rabbit hole we go.
Watch the Alan Lightman video: bigthink.com/robby-berman/if-our-universe-is-just-a-random-occurrence-science-has-a-big-problem?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#link_time=1483719233
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2017 0:02:59 GMT -6
well...it's called theory for a reason...cause no one knows. We have people (scientists) staying that we're just some hologram..I don't know how to tell if I am one or not..or am I thinking the thoughts my other self/s have already thought and passed along to me? Ahh...there may be many many earths with but some slight variation...how do I know I am not one of them? Oh..and if there are hollograms of them...that could get pretty busy. Wait..if I'm a hologram..am I responsible for paying my bills? How could I have any? yep..here comes the headache..
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