> I hope you are not confusing the MV multiverse with the Everett MWI multiverse
It seems that John Clark is. On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 12:24 PM, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 LizR <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
