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EXPLANATION FOUR: UNIVERSALITY IN MANY-WORLDS: PROLOGUE (IMPOSSIBLE BUT TRUE)

alschroeder

on July 20, 2014

Continuing down the list of six possible explanations for the "anthropic" coincidences in nature which allow intelligent life to evolve…largely inspired and derived from George F.R. Ellis' brilliant brief book, BEFORE THE BEGINNING.  He is NOT responsible, though, for the liberties I've taken with his logic or how I've chosen to illustrate it.

To many of you this is old hat, of course.  But I have to assume many of you don't know of this– and I suspect many of you who DO know of this have lived with this so long that you've lost your sense of wonder about it. Unless you understand this, you'll not understand why many-worlds, to many scientists, seemed a reasonable interpretation.

Next time: INTERPRETING THE IMPOSSIBLE.