[extropy-chat] Weinberg on multiverse

[Dirk Bruere]

On 11/5/05, scerir <scerir at libero.it> wrote:
>
> Steven Weinberg about the 'Multiverse'
> in a long paper here:
> http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0511037
> "It must be acknowledged that there is a big di
> erence in the degree of confidence we can have
> in neo-Darwinism and in the multiverse. It is
> settled, as well as anything in science is ever settled,
> that the adaptations of living things on earth
> have come into being through natural selection
> acting on random undirected inheritable variations.
> About the multiverse, it is appropriate to keep
> an open mind, and opinions among scientists differ
> widely. In the Austin airport on the way to this meeting
> I noticed for sale the October issue of a magazine called
> 'Astronomy', having on the cover the headline "Why You Live
> in Multiple Universes." Inside I found a report of
> a discussion at a conference at Stanford, at which Martin
> Rees said that he was sufficiently confident about
> the multiverse to bet his dog's life on it,
> while Andrei Linde said he would bet his own life.
> As for me, I have just enough confidence about the multiverse
> to bet the lives of both Andrei Linde and Martin Rees's dog."
>

Deutsch is probably the most fervent supporter of the MWI when it comes to
multiverses.

Dirk
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