Searching for the Multiverse

Fine-tuning and the future of cosmology

Despite claims of a new age of ‘precision cosmology’, the origin of the universe remains a mystery. Confronting cosmic fine-tuning and the multiverse scientifically might help solve it, writes Geraint F. Lewis.

 

In little over a century, our understanding of the universe has changed dramatically. Driven by theoretical and observational advances in the first few decades of the twentieth century, the seemingly static and eternal cosmos known to the ancients was replaced by a dynamical and evolving universe.

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Jeffrey Baybick 17 March 2021

Science tells the HOW of the Universe. The theories proposed push back the proximate origin of the Universe but never actually address the question. All of the theories require creation ex nihilo at some point. This leads to a singularity where language, even the language of mathematics, fails in its ability to convey information. Some of the theories are para-theological (we are a simulation; our universe was created by a race of super-intelligent beings in a laboratory) where these alternate terms are used for God. None of the theories are incompatible with a theological interpretation as they focus on the HOW. The ultimate question is the WHY of the Universe. And there are only two possible explanations: it was an accident or it was on purpose. Everything else is commentary.