The
multiverse theory hasn't won over all physicists, but it is the theory of choice for some of the field's leading thinkers.
Yet the main response is the multiverse theory. Stephen Hawking's latest book explains that the positive energy of matter can be balanced by negative gravitational energy.
In that case, the multiverse theory will remain vulnerable to a better theory coming along.
While pleading in a Letter (April issue, page 12) for tolerance for the "very idea of God," Ronald Bashian seems surprisingly intolerant of the proponents of
multiverse theory and of the natural tendency of scientists to daydream.
Polkinghorne gently dismisses the
multiverse theory as "a metaphysical guess of a fairly extravagant kind." He believes that God programmed the universe from the moment of the big bang to be "fruitful" to enable life to develop--most importantly human life, with minds that could interact with Him.
This idea is called the
multiverse theory. It is presumed that a very large number of universes are out there, and the odds are that some of them will have the right conditions for life to exist.
Folger, "Science's Alternative to an Intelligent Creator: The
Multiverse Theory," Discover Magazine (December 2008): published online November 10, 2008, available at http://discovermagazine.com/2008/dec/10-sciences -alternative-to-an-intelligent-creator.
A naturalistic interpretation of the origin of the fine-tuning in our universe is the "
multiverse theory," favored by British astronomer Martin Rees and others, including Richard Dawkins.
He goes off on tangents such as his deity debates with William Lane Craig, discounting the origin of the universe as a "First Cause" or "Something from Nothing." He brings up the issue of
multiverse theory. One of my biggest complaints about this book is that the reader will not get a good idea of the claimed breadth and strength of the fine-tuning argument.
A given
multiverse theory posits some kind of universe-generating mechanism, and then argues the case for the special features of our universe by contending that the mechanism does generate whatever it can generate.
In the early chapters, Davies sets out the basic concepts of modern physics and cosmology and then describes the
multiverse theory and the arguments for and against it.