Cooper: When you talk about other universes with different laws of physics, do you mean completely different underlying equations like different terms in GR or different gauge symmetries in QFT? He says the string theory landscape comes about because we think there are extra dimensions of space that can be curled up and hidden from our view. Cooper: Every time a result comes in some parameters are tuned to produce an even higher value than those expected by standard model. No wonder the standard model agrees with experiment after Experiment 1! he asks.
Welcome to the November 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable number — based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good — and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic. Enjoy!
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