Paul Steinhardt, "Inflated Expectations: A Cosmological Tale" (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Theoretical Cosmology - Is There a Growing Feeling of Frustration?
Theory of the multiverse is largely accepted by communities in astronomy, particle physics and cosmology. But some people may not even know about or have thought about all aspects of the idea. And now inflation has produced an infinitude of possibilities that you can't measure without adding a principle to solve this problem. It's like trying to weigh different amounts of universe, difr diferent patches of universe that come out of the multiverses. So it'd be like if i gave you a bag of coins, of diames and nickels and a you could calculate which one is more probable. You're just gan back to where you started with your original theory.
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