John Mikes wrote:
> Brian,
> I started to read the text and found the 1st sentence:
>
> /"In modern cosmology, a /
>
> /multiverse is defined to be a collection of possible physical universes"/
>
> that pissed me off: 'possible' in our today's sense includes many
> 'impossibilities' in the sense of a mindset of 1000 years ago and I
> assume does NOT include lots of 'possibles' in the scientific(?) mindset
> 1000 years hence.
>
> I find the position a 'present-day restricted' reductionist approach
> adjusted into our 2009(or earlier?) cognitive inventory of physics.
>
> In rigorous science I could not do better, but is it a position you
> would really deem a "a very interesting read"?
>
> JohnM
I agree with JM. Whenever I read the word "possible" I feel the intellectual
ground shift and I look for a hand hold in case it turns to quicksand.
Brent
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Received on Thu Jul 02 2009 - 12:37:22 PDT