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bvf

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4. The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Tue Mar 22, 2016, 03:10 AM

Mar 2016

is still the best reading on this that I've seen.

Highly accessible, and you won't find a single reference to string theory. Great stuff on quantum computing, too.

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Why there might be many more Universes than our own [View all] n2doc Mar 2016 OP

Of course there are many universes cpwm17 Mar 2016 #1

"Fine-tuning" is an awfully antrophocentric point-of-view. DetlefK Mar 2016 #5

If you just take some random properties to make a universe cpwm17 Mar 2016 #6

But how do we know whether the universe's parameters are random? DetlefK Mar 2016 #7

Essentially your are saying that our Universe might be fine tuned cpwm17 Mar 2016 #8

I said nothing about life or the parameters serving to some higher end. DetlefK Mar 2016 #9

If only one property of our Universe, out of many properties, were just changed by a very little cpwm17 Mar 2016 #10

What's so bad about "shit happens?" DetlefK Mar 2016 #11

Many top scientist do believe that our "fine-tuned" Universe does need an explanation cpwm17 Mar 2016 #12

the problem with your last argument qazplm Mar 2016 #13

The Multiverse perhaps is just a brute fact of nature. cpwm17 Mar 2016 #14

The odds of you existing are zero (with rounding) Bob41213 Mar 2016 #15

That logic doesn't work in this situation. cpwm17 Mar 2016 #16

Particle Fever (2014) on Netflix Brother_Love Mar 2016 #2

just be prepared to surrender very quickly MisterP Mar 2016 #3

The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch bvf Mar 2016 #4