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51. Max Tegmark on Why Treating Humanity Like a Child Will Save Us All

People I (Mostly) Admire

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Is There a Multiverse?

The idea that there is a multiverse is by far the most economical explanation of things we observe. You're not shocked that we'd happen to be living on earth rather than pluto or venus, exactly because there are many planets. In many ways, the conditions of our universe as a whole, or a way more fine tuned than earth's temperature, is life. The theory of cosmological inflation predicts a whole bunch of stuff that many people, including myself, have done precision tests of and survived with flying colors. So a common misconception is that multiverse talk is unscientific,. But multi verses are not a theory. They are a prediction of certain theories. And a theory

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