Rob Sheldon on The Atlantic’s rotting multiverse
Responding to Barry Arrington’s comment that if The Atlantic thinks the multiverse is reaching its sell by date, surely the food waste dumpster looms, physicist Rob Sheldon comments, — That was a pretty ambiguous article, ending with a question. Because if the multiverse is a philosophy that is rotting culture, then we must dig down to its root, and ask “where did it come from?” I think, and we could probably ask 3 philosophers and get 4 opinions, that this multiverse concept is exactly what you expect from materialism. That is, the alternative to multiverse is NOT a determined, deterministic, Newtonian-Laplacian world. Nor is it a QM world of shadowy probabilities becoming realized by observation. Rather, the alternative to multiverse Read More ›