Timeline for Why are physicists debating the "multiverse" so detached from professional philosophy?
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| Mar 26, 2014 at 14:47 | comment | added | Neil Meyer | Yes that is where that quote comes from. | |
| Mar 26, 2014 at 11:57 | comment | added | Urs Schreiber | @Neil, thanks for alerting me! Indeed. These quotes you have there are from Ellis's SciAm article of 2011, I suppose? | |
| Mar 26, 2014 at 8:00 | comment | added | Neil Meyer | A related question which the OP might find interesting. philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/8389/… | |
| Mar 25, 2014 at 15:37 | comment | added | Nikolaj-K | I second the surprise that Tyson mentioned multiverse theory in Cosmos, even implying it's fully mainstream. I mean I like the multiverse "theory" too (mostly for simplicity, while my adviser argued with unitarity), but there are big leaps between accepting electromagnetism, accepting the big bang and accepting the multiverse. My understanding is that one of Tysons goals is to prohibit emergence of more American kids with an creationist point of view by propagating scientific results. Why then does he feed his opponents with ideas that can't properly be backed up? This will not end well. | |
| Mar 24, 2014 at 21:29 | comment | added | Hunan Rostomyan | Good question. I was watching the latest episode of the new Cosmos two days ago. When Tyson started talking about multiverses I asked myself: is this not philosophy? If it is, then what do people like Maudlin, Sklar, the good folks at Pitt, and others have to say about these matters? I haven't had the opportunity to explore these aspects of philosophy of science, but I imagine there must be a lot of philosophical literature on it. | |
| Mar 24, 2014 at 19:38 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackPhilosophy/status/448182118779478016 | ||
| Mar 24, 2014 at 14:46 | comment | added | Urs Schreiber | @Drux, when you look at the discussion, you'll notice that after some initial motivation from physical input, the questions are very old ones of epistemology. But the resulting discussion among physicists often fall quite short of some basic quality measures, such as for instance witnessed by the inanity of the "Boltzmann brain"-discussion en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain | |
| Mar 24, 2014 at 14:25 | comment | added | Drux | What does professional philosophy have to say about multiverses? Just wondering. | |
| Mar 24, 2014 at 13:43 | answer | added | user5172 | timeline score: 7 | |
| Mar 24, 2014 at 13:34 | history | edited | Urs Schreiber | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 24, 2014 at 12:44 | history | asked | Urs Schreiber | CC BY-SA 3.0 |