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The Meaning Of Human Existence, And The Search For Alien Life - Avi Loeb

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Problems With the Multiverse Theory

i want to ask you about the multiverse especially because there seems to be a word and a theory that has entered the public consciousness in recent years. It's not at least at this point in time it's not possible to disprove this idea experimentally so if someone would propose an experimental test of the multiverse by which we can do an experiment and figure out if it exists or not i would regard it as part of the scientific inquiry even in principle. As a physicist i think we should all all physicists should make what i call a galleon oath whereby the ideas that you proposed are at least in principle testable and can be proven wrong.

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