On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > For the purposes of this thread I'm specifically interested in whether > the MV "opposes" supersymmetry in some sense. > Not really. If String Theory is true there are at least 10^500 other universes with different laws of physics and maybe a infinite number, but Supersymmetry is a narrower idea than String Theory. Supersymmetry is consistent with String Theory but does not require it. So Supersymmetry could be true but String Theory false. And Supersymmetry is not dead yet but it's not looking very healthy right now; most thought that when the LHC came online we'd find Supersymmetry almost immediately, but instead there is still not even a hint of it. > I hope you are not confusing the MV multiverse with the Everett MWI > multiverse > It's conceivable they are the same thing, that's why I thought the discovery of the polarization variation of the Big Bang microwaves was such a big deal. Inflation theory predicted that the enormous acceleration of the very early universe would create gravity waves that would distort the Big Bang microwaves in a certain way and that is what seems to have been discovered in March. Alan Guth postulated a inflation field that decayed away in a process somewhat analogous to radioactive half life, and after the decay the universe expanded at a much much more leisurely pace. But then Andre Linde proved that for Guth's idea to work the inflation field had to expand faster than it decayed, Linde called it "Eternal Inflation". Linde showed that for every volume in which the inflation field decays away 2 other volumes don't decay. So one universe becomes 3, the field decays in one universe but not in the other 2, then both of those two universes splits in 3 again and the inflation field decays away in one and doesn't decay in 2 others, and it goes on forever. So what we call "The Big Bang" isn't the beginning of everything it's just the end of inflation in our particular part of the universe. So according to Linde this field created one Big Bang, then 2, then 4, then 8, then 16 etc in a unending process. Maybe in one of those universes Schrodinger's cat is dead and in another the cat is alive. So if that variation of the Big Bang microwaves turns out to be real (and we should know by Christmas) it would be a big shot in the arm for Everett. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
