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Multiverses, the Big Bang and laws of physics

Naked Astronomy, from the Naked Scientists

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The Origin of the Laws of Physics

There's as many different types of multiverse and universes within them as there are limits to our imagination. I think that what we're doing in taking the very best that we understand about the laws of physics and pushing them as far as we feel we can is getting some sort of insight into these very, very deep and difficult questions. We could easily imagine a multiverse that had a different set of laws that either wouldn't produce bubble universes or would produce very different types of structures. It may well be that we have to accept that science cannot provide us the ultimate answers to the question of existence.

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