09.07.10
M theories, multiverses, and cosmological hells
Although I am not a conventional theist, or atheist, the one thing that makes me suspicious against multiverse theories is their unstated invocation of an absolute cosmological hell of the most terrifying proportions.
Note what is said: an immense, perhaps infinite, spectrum, roughly half, of alternate universes, indiscrimate in their character beyond physical parameters.
Such universes would include billions of worlds of immense, absolute suffering, hells beyond reckoning in which every evil finds it maximum pain coefficient.
So multiverse theory is grotesque beyond reckoning.
I find it hard to believe such a monstrosity could exist, without something that could intervene.
You know what, that does not sound right. The message is cockeyed, must be the messenger’s fault.
A principle of selection is surely at work. A meta principle related to an ethical selection from phantom mathematical fictions. Surely something is missing. I have offered no proof of this, of course.
An ethical objection doesn’t disprove it, but it makes one wonder why physicists never realize what they are saying.
I find it far more likely that multiverse theory is a mathematical artifice in an incomplete state of theory and that it is attractive to atheist promoters, and those who dislike the fine tuning argument (which wasn’t an attempted proof of the existence of god).
From now on, I would be wary of physicists. They are going to rig M theory, if necessary.
Hawking may be pulling you leg.
Stephen said,
September 7, 2010 at 2:53 pm
Hell? Perhaps, but it is heaven for the likes of Hawking and Dawkins. Note the “awkin” in both names!
nemo said,
September 8, 2010 at 1:12 pm
I think that the principle of selection is already there, but was subtly discardeded when multiverse theory took over QM