Observing the Multiverse (Guest Post)

Cosmic Variance
By Sean Carroll
Dec 22, 2010 6:48 PMNov 20, 2019 1:06 AM

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It's a big universe out there -- maybe bigger that we think. A lot of people these days are contemplating the possibility that the wider world isn't just more of the same; it could be that there are regions very different from ours, even with different low-energy laws of physics, outside our observable universe. It's an old idea, which we now label the "multiverse," even though we're talking about regions of space connected to ours. A lot of other people are aghast that this is considered science. Personally I think science talks about unobservable things all the time, and this question is going to be resolved by people doing hard work to make sense of multiverse scenarios rather than by pronouncements about what is or is not science.

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