Multiverse 2--Cosmological Constant Necessitates Multiverse

This video is a response to those who claim that the probability of humanity surviving into the next century might go all the way down to zero (I back it up with more documentary footage). The probability of our Cosmological Constant is so small, 1 part in 10 to the 120th power, that the fact that we're even here talking about this is EXTREMELY unlikely. The fact that we're already here probably narrows the probability and makes it even MORE likely. Thus, when we say that all probabilities in quantum mechanics simultaneously happen, it is pretty much inevitable that we'll survive in one of these infinite amount of universes. Besides, 1 part in 10 to the 120th power is pretty damn near close to 0. And, if you don't buy that, I think the Cosmological Constant still provides a formidable argument for multiverse theory Original vid here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCxyxmOtHbw

(Clips are from What We Already Know--BBC,The Elegant Universe PBS)

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[BombdePlume]

I'm still struggling to grasp the logic behind the assertion of a multiverse. Why doesn't the anthropic principle apply here?

[PostmodernAnomaly]

I don't know, the theory of relativity isn't false simply because a human discovered it. So, I suppose in the same manner we are talking about potentials understood in a limited way.

The anthropic principle does apply: we only have a limited understanding of it. But perhaps the anthropic principle needs to be expanded? We don't simpy project, we discover and seek. So, I suppose, the universe projects back to us.

[Rizzy55]

Blue juice Brian greene..you'd be eating your own poop if everything happened. Its funny how they dont see how absurd this is and just consider reasonable alternates. Did you know the odds are greater that Shakespeare would be written in the stars than human consciousness? Thats where multiverse leads.

The odds dont change either. The odds of life here in this universe are still zero--the other verses dont affect that.

It doesnt matter how many lottery tickets are sold. Your odds are the same.

[brianburleigh]

Well, within the first 30 seconds of the video, you got the entire idea of probability and the existences of universes wrong...from both a quantum mechanical view and a mathematical view. Only an idiot would be able to achieve such idiocy.

[Battery9876]

Maybe there's an explanation to the cosmological constant. Some phenomena appear extremely improbable until they are explained. TAke the fact that the universe is flat for instance. The problability is extremely small - don't know how it compares to 10e-140 - , but the theory of inflation explains it in a simple way.

This being said, I believe in the multiverse theory.

[digitalking1000]

hey dude i have nothing against you kid but i beleive in the multiverse theory.

[gallileotheguineapig]

There's an intresting article in Scientific American:Life in the Multiverse,where there could be universes with different physical laws that could sustain complex life

[chris11sholtz]

i disagree with how you are describing the multiverse. I think it is possible to have something like a multiverse, but they would have to be identical. quantum physics is based largely off of the particle-wave duality of matter, basically, everything that exists is BOTH a particle and a wave at the same time. and since a true wave has no end, and physics does not deal with dichotomous extremes, there must by definition be an infinite number of the same partical on each wave so that, if divided

[chris11sholtz]

equals one. (infinity/infinity=1) anything less than an infinite amount of particles (each extra partical would be a part of another universe) would, when divided, equal an infinitely small number, which as i said, physics cannot describe, therefore it cannot exist inside a universe.

[unemployedfreak]

1 in 10 to the POSITIVE 120th power.