🧑‍🚀 Cosmic Multiverses

You know how we're always searching for meaning, trying to make sense of our existence?

Well, cosmologists and astrophysicists have been doing just that for centuries, expending vast amounts of public funds and divine wisdom to unravel the mysteries of the universe.

From the Liber formularum of Eucherius in the fifth century, to the Liber numerorum of Isidore of Seville in the seventh, to the De Universo of Rabanus Maurus in the ninth, as well as the Miscellanea of Hugh of St. Victor in the twelfth century, all the way up to General Relativity and the Plank epoch in the twentith century, and the rise of dark matter in the twenty-first century, all such ideas and concepts have been trying to uncover the many divine mysteries of the universe.

And there are plenty of ideas and concepts going around. Including are good old friend, String Theory, which is an attempt to bring macro and micro views of the cosmos together in one Grand Unified Theory (GUT).

However, when it comes to understanding the universe, much of the world's prevailing Standard Model relies on General Relativity.

However, General Relativity has had to accommodate continuous new data and reformulated hypotheses, giving birth to the concepts of dark matter, dark energy, and even Multiverses. But there is no agreement on the nature of such dark matter, such energy or such force.

It's a bit of a conundrum.

Multiverse

The Multiverse is a lesser-known model suggesting that our universe has experienced numerous big bangs over time.

The idea implies that there is a Multiverse containing countless mini or bubble universes, each with its own set of laws and constants. Many believe this is more likely than a single all-seeing divine universe.

Some of these bubbles may even contain life.

Intriguing, isn't it?

In short, the Multiverse theory has different kinds of interpretations.

But from the gist of it, it more or less refers to different regions of space in our universe. And the different regions of space can include varying laws of physics. So, different regions of space compute different conditions.

However, the existence of a Multiverse doesn't mean there's nothing left to explain about our world.

It's just a nice way to help think about some of the great cosmic mysteries.

You still need laws, special conditions, and a plethora of constraints to think about the Multiverse idea.

In fact, by integrating such a concept, we've merely pushed the problem up a level.

In the beginning

So, if there really is a Multiverse, is it eternal or did it have a beginning?

Well, it seems more likely that the Multiverse has been around forever, with numerous universes coming and going.

In a single-universe scenario, we'd expect it to run out of steam eventually.

But even more curiously, in a Multiverse with many universes, we would still need some sort of law-like organized arrangement, very specific conditions such that a particular structure of life was created?

How did such a structure come to exist?

Whether we turn to String Theory or the Multiverse to explain the fine-tuning of our universe, we're stuck in the realm of theory, with no experimental support to prove either one is correct.

It's like there still seems to be a "super spooky intellect" toying around with the laws of physics. Right under our noses.

Even more, there still remain some fundamental polarities with regard to the geometry and shape of the universe?

Take dark matter.

Our Universe is not just expanding but accelerating in its expansion, thanks to the mysterious dark energy. And the energy of empty space, even in the quantum mechanical sense, is far from empty.

Individual Awakening

I think it's important to recognize that distinctions like the ones above are based on human cognition (as it is now) and may or may not be true.

One of the attractions of cosmology is the capacity to reinvent the categories through which the creation of the universe is understood.

Many belief systems of the past purported to explain everything. Some continue to do so. Whilst other belief systems are taking shape through new scientific lenses, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI).

For a new model of coherence to be achieved, it has become necessary to hypothesize "dark matter," "dark energy," and "dark flow" - whatever existence means when such phenomena remain beyond conventional detection and comprehension.

I wonder if AI holds the key to unlock a new progressive model here?

In the realm of particle physics, experiments such as the Muon g-2 in the US and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN have discovered intriguing anomalies, hinting at undiscovered particles.

With all these gaps in our knowledge, maybe we're just a bit too eager to determine whether the universe is fine-tuned for life.

If we develop AI of sufficient power, we can let it loose on these cosmic conundrums.

Imagine, after a thousand years of cogitation, AI comes along and reveals the secrets of existence. Or have I gone mad?

However, even if AI manages to uncover such secrets, they might still be outside the scope of human understanding and comprehension, much like explaining Quantum Mechanics to my dog.

Then what?