The Joy of Why

Are There Reasons to Believe in a Multiverse?

May 17, 2023

48:48

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David Kaplan

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Observable Universe

2min

The Multiverse and the Origins of the Universe

5min

The Mystery of the Multiverse

1min

The Higgs Boson and the Standard Model

6min

The Higgs and the Borderland

3min

The Higgs Boson: A Fine-Tuned Situation

2min

The Higgs and the Strong Force

3min

The Higgs and the Multiverse

4min

10.

The Higgs Mass and the Structure of the Universe

3min

11.

The Observational Bias in Astronomy

2min

12.

The Fine-Tuning of the Multiverse

2min

13.

The Mass of the Higgs and the Cosmological Constant

1min

14.

The Cosmological Constant and the Multiverse

5min

15.

The Cosmological Constant

2min

16.

The Anthropic Principle and the Origins of the Universe

2min

17.

The Multiverse and the Cosmological Constant

4min

Several areas of physics suggest reasons to think that unobservable universes with different natural laws could lie beyond ours. The theoretical physicist David Kaplan talks with Steven Strogatz about the mysteries that a multiverse would solve.

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