Has the Multiverse Finally Become Necessary?
Long ago, the protons had formed a massive star via gravity, and for quite a while it had fused hydrogen into helium, living a long and healthy life, but its death would be even more spectacular.
In its death throes, this massive star goes out with a bang—first collapsing, then triggering a supernova explosion bright enough to drown out the light of an entire galaxy. A shock wave of precious stellar debris hurtles outward into space at tens of millions of miles per hour, containing the heavier elements that wall make up planets, create more stars, and even create life.
Well, here we are, being made of the atomic elements—stardust, or chemicals, if you will, and to this dust we’ll one day return, like it or not.
Suppose some of those protons had been just 0.2 percent larger; they’d have been unstable and would have decayed. No atoms would have existed, ever.
Suppose gravity had been slightly more; then he stars would have been smaller, being more compressed, and they would have sputtered out long before they had a chance to evolve. No life.
Suppose the electron had been twice as large; no life.
Suppose that, when two hydrogen atoms were fused into helium in a star, 0.006 or 0.008 of the mass was turned into energy (E=MCC) instead of 0.007; the universe would then have been filled only with hydrogen, if it had been 0.006, or their would have been a universe with no hydrogen, if it had been 0.008. This is a very small tolerance.
Suppose the early universe had not a delicate balance, but had headed into runaway expansion, too quick for galaxies to form, or had headed the other direction into implosion. No life.
Suppose matter had been more evenly distributed; it would not have formed galaxies. If matter had been clumpier, it would have all condensed into black holes. No life.
What if the strong force were slightly more powerful? Then all protons in the early universe would have paired off and there would have been no hydrogen to fuel long-lived stars. No life.
It is because we are here that we can now look back to see that the universe was made for us. We had to be in a universe that had reached a certain age, a certain stage of evolution after stars had formed, so that life could arise. It is that in our universe the odds for life were just right, as they had to be,or we would not have been here to marvel about it.
Inflation might be an ongoing process throughout the universe, where even now some different regions of the cosmos are budding off, undergoing inflation, and evolving into essentially separate universes, then doing the same again, eternally.
The expansion of the universe is even accelerating; something is pushing everything apart. Yet, it’s not too fast and not too slow. Too much [dark energy] and gravity would have been overwhelmed. This particular fine-tuning seems to be extreme luck.
Our universe may have been one of perhaps infinite universes, each with their own laws of physics…
Now, while string theory is useless in the way that it cannot prove anything, it does have 10**1000 solutions of unique ways to produce a universe, meaning that a multiverse might spawn real universes, in all those possible ways.
Our universe could be just one of a multitude, one that just happened to have the right kind of physics for life.
It seems that the “All” has always gotten bigger and that this is the next step for our realizations—and so our universe may not be all that important in the scheme of all things, it being but a tiny spec in the overall multiverse.
Once we thought that the Earth was the center of all, then the sun, the the galaxy, then the universe, but now…the multiverse! We are so small. So tiny—a spec on a spec on a mote of dust.
Did the multiverse come into being so that our one flower could bloom and blossom for just a moment?
Are all the universes real or does this all happen in “Potential/Possibility form”?
Also, how is it that the many universes can have different physical laws?
Did something have to be? Yes. Why? Otherwise, nonexistence would have [been all around], but it could not. Thus things forming is the natural way.
Could all have been forever? No. Why? Forever could not have already happened. All would be worn out. Most importantly, how could something be without it being made? What would have determined its amount, where it was, why it was, how it was, its nature, and so forth.
What then? The potential and possibility of stuff was around forever, being outside of time, and needing no regress of the even smaller to be made of. It even evolved all possible universes, the only way to get some of them to work. Why? Natural law—the natural extension of “physical” dimension beyond the actual 3-D. Never heard of it? Kind of like the everywhere of superposition in the quantum realm.


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