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Universes everywhere

A universe could form inside this room and we’d never know.

Sean Carroll

Hmmm… Why does it sound quite familiar to me?

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4 Responses to “Universes everywhere”

  1. nige Says:
    June 18, 2008 at 4:19 pm

    This reminds me of the question:

    “How much skepticism is necessary to be a scientist?”

    There is a spectrum of views with two extremes views which are not helpful:

    (1) Those who are so skeptical they find all evidence to be suspect, and spend their time doubting everything they can and never being constructively critical at all.

    (2) At the other extreme of the spectrum, there are people who are interested in the occult fringes of science, and believe in being so “open minded” that (using an expression of Dawkins) “their brains are falling out of their heads”.

    Niels Bohr in 1957 reacted to Wolfgang Pauli’s new theory of elementary particles by saying:

    “We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.” (W. H. Cropper, “The Quantum Physicists”, Oxford University Press, London, 1970, p57.)

  4. Jeff McKee Says:
    June 9, 2009 at 2:17 am

    I agree that time is fundamental not only at the level of counting changes as in a clocks tick rate, but also in the duration of the changes themselves as in the clocks temperature.

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