Sunday, August 13, 2017

The Multiverse Paradigm

In the June 2017 issue of Scientific American, the cover article was "The Quantum Multiverse." You may or may not have heard of this paradigm, but it is rapidly gaining popularity in the world of physics. It says that our universe is part of a much larger structure of "bubble universes."

The very early cosmos expanded exponentially through a process called inflation. As the cosmos was expanding, some parts of it stopped expanding sooner than others, creating these bubble universes. Our universe is but one of many.

In a single universe, events occur a finite number of times, and so scientists are able to predict what will happen next by looking at the number of times an event has already occurred and mathematically determining the chances of it happening again. But in a multiverse which expands infinitely, prediction is not possible. Everything that can happen, does happen, in some other universe or reality.

This means that no matter what event you are able to imagine, it can and has or will happen somewhere else. That means there are universes out there where you do exist and universes out there were you were never born. And this brings up an interesting thought.

If you've ever had the thought "There is a god" and you've questioned that thought, as we should do with all our thoughts, you've had to honestly conclude that you cannot absolutely know that it's true. There is no proof one way or the other. I personally feel quite comfortable saying that in the universe we currently inhabit, there is not a god.

But if the multiverse paradigm is true, then there could actually be a universe out there where there is or was a god.

This brings up an interesting thought experiment. Why did some universes develop with a god and some develop without one?

Ah, but you say, the nature of God is such that he is everywhere. He would be the God of all universes. He is omniscient, omnipresent, etc. The creator of all.

And yet, the multiverse paradigm requires that every possible combination of events does happen in some universe out there. So there HAS to be a universe out there where there is no god, and there never has been one.

So this opens up the concept that god is something that develops out of the universe rather than being the origin of it. Because if some universes develop and have no god and some develop with one, then God cannot be the creator of a universe in which he or she does not exist.

Quite interesting, and the next question that comes to mind is, what set of circumstances would have to happen in a universe for a god to develop? And is he/she a real god or just perceived to be one by the inhabitants?

In the multiverse paradigm, there is a universe where he/she is just a perceived god, and there is one in which he/she is a real god. This begs the question, if some universes develop without a god, and they are fine, then why do we need a god in any universe?

The good news is, we don't need to know. What is true in another universe doesn't matter to this one because they don't interact. The laws of one universe do not apply to any others.

Just the fact that there are some universes out there where no god exists makes it possible to conclude that there ARE circumstances where a god is not necessary. And therefore, we have to ask ourselves, why do we feel that one is necessary at all? It changes the whole nature of our present reality.


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