Lightspeed Magazine Issue 17 by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: science fiction, magazine, short story, science fiction magazine, short stories
ISBN: 9781607013259
Publisher: Prime Books
Published: 2011-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

The Reasons Behind It All

We could, of course, not really understand the universe. It could be there is some yet undiscovered underlying rule, some beautiful set of equations, that will dictate that all of the impossible coincidences must exist.

Another possibility is that there is a force outside our universe—outside our space and time—that is dictating the constants of our cosmos. Perhaps there is a God, a watchmaker, a greater power tweaking our forces to make life possible. (By definition, this possibility is beyond the testing of science.)

A third possibility is, to some scientists, the ugliest and, to others, the most elegant. This theory says that our universe is just one of many and that our improbable reality is able to occur because every possible combination of constants exists somewhere in the multiverse of universes. This theory may or may not be testable. And this possibility falls out of many different ideas.

There is also the probability argument: In theory, if enough monkeys pound on typewriters for long enough, they’ll end up with Hamlet, and so it makes sense to also say that if enough universes are allowed to exist, eventually life will emerge. But saying that something makes sense just isn’t enough.

Luckily, many scientists find more compelling arguments to suggest multiple universes.

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