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#257 – Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Multiverse Is a Manifestation of Infinity, Right?

Is it that the multiverse somehow has a philosophical negative effect on humanity? Like it makes us, maybe make life seem more meaningless? Is that where he's getting at a little bit, or is this not reaching that far? Well, no, I think those are both kind of perceptive. In one sense, it's meant kind of to explain this fine-tuning problem: we find ourselves in a universe that's particularly façon that has features consistent with our existence. On the other hand, a theory that predicts everything, literally everything, can be said to predict nothing.

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