Re: Interesting Article

Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Wed, 23 Sep 1998 15:49:09 +0000

At 04:57 PM 9/22/98 -0700, Kathryn wrote:

>I was thinking of such theories as Alexei Starobinsky/Alan Guth's 'daughter
>universe' theory, in which a false vacuum spot creates a wormhole with a
>bubble wall on the end of it that pops off to create another universe. Or
>Alexander Vilenkin's 'eternal inflation' theory, which posits repeat 'big
>bangs' that duplicate our own. Or Andrei Linde's 'self-reproducing' theory
>that involves additional universes in other dimensions.

The connection with string or M theory strikes me as tenuous. Re-entrant wormholes at the particle level, maybe - but that's within a single universe.

As for the budded cosmoses - Smolin's is a nice current version, and David Deutsch told me that his QT multiverse theory (the Cat is definitely both alive and dead) is not inconsistent with Smolin's, although they seem disjunct on an analytical level - both might be true, or one, or neither.

Damien Broderick