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People are not the result of a cosmic accident, but of laws of the universe that grant our lives meaning and purpose, says physicist Paul Davies.
  • trrll

    "...fallen by the wayside as clever experimenters have indeed devised ways of measuring the state of a particle without bouncing some other particle off of it, only to find that the fundamental uncertainty remains. Today, there no longer seems to be any way of evading the conclusion that a particle really does not simultaneously have a well-defined position and momentum." --trrll

    Exactly right. One concludes from this that it is the concept of "things in space-time" that is too limited: a result of the development of the unconscious mental appartus to model the world approximately, well enough for what we would call normal sizes, velocites, etc. With this realization, the multiuniverse theory appears as a very conceited way of applying a very limited viewpoint to the the whole universe.

    In a similar way the statement "the laws are too finely tuned" appears also to come from a lack of understanding. The big and the small are not united in our current understanding, and so we have too many laws and so see apparent, but not necessarily actual, fine tuning.