• Question: What are your views on the multiverse theory?

    Asked by fireland to Indi, Jarv, John, Ken, Vicky on 16 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Vicky Young

      Vicky Young answered on 16 Mar 2012:

      Hi Fireland

      I don’t know much about it but I know there is no proof of evidence of it simply because if it does exist its just to far away. That’s not to say that in couldn’t change in the future. I think its important to believe that anything is possible in science.

    • Photo: John Prytherch

      John Prytherch answered on 19 Mar 2012:

      While science can’t ever ‘prove’ anything exactly, it is fundamentally about using observations to test whether some theory is possible, and how likely it might be.

      The trouble with theories like the multiverse theory, (and some other things at the limits of fundamental physics such as string theory) is that there aren’t any observations to allow us to test the theory, and at the moment it seems unlikely that there ever will be any observations that we could use in the future (though of course there may be some massive leap forward that would change this).

      Because of this some scientists don’t think of theories like the multiverse theory as science at all, just an elegant piece of mathematics with no relationship to reality, though there is a lot of disagreement over this.

Comments

  • Photo: fireland

    fireland commented on :

    But there is no proof of anything, what do you say to that?

  • Photo: Vicky

    Vicky commented on :

    Hi Fireland

    That there is no proof so its just a theory along with thousands of other theories. I’m not sure I personally believe it but lots of physicist believe it.

    The good thing about having a theory is that you can then go on to test it out but in this case it looks impossible with today’s technology. So its likely to remain a theory for a long time.

    You are right to be skeptical. Once all the scientists in the world thought the world was flat and you could fall of the edge if you got to close. Not every theory is right 😉