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200 | Solo: The Philosophy of the Multiverse
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is There a Problem With Quantum Gravity?
The eternal fluctuating cosmology is a kind of a multi verse in time. It's not like different regions of space are different universes. But if you wait long enough, whatever kind of universe you want to think about will fluctuate existence. So it is effectively a multiverse. Every single one of these three options is a consequence of other ideas. And so that's a real problem. The paper that kemmon jason and i wrote tried to say that it's easy to avoid this problem if you make certain assumptions about quantum gravity. But of course, we don't know if those assumptions are true. Ok?
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