Before the Zero

[Doug Millison]

Enjoying the group read so far.  I am especially curious to hear what
readers think about ways that GR may reflect the theorizing that has
developed into the ongoing discussion about the multiverse.

"All fiction that does not violate the laws of physics is fact."
-David Deutsch, THE BEGINNING OF INFINITY in the chapter called "The
Multiverse" (2011)

>From the same chapter: "....Whenever we observe anything - a scientific
instrument or a galaxy or a human being - what we are actually seeing is a
single-universe perspective on a larger object that extends some way into
other universes. In some of those universes, the object looks exactly as it
does to us, in others it looks different, or is absent altogether. What an
observer sees as a married couple is actually just a sliver of a vast
entity that includes many fungible instances of a couple, together with
other instances of them who are divorced, and others who have never
married...."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse
....The multiverse (or meta-universe) is the hypothetical set of finite and
infinite possibleuniverses, including the universe in which we live.
Together, these universes comprise everything that exists: the entirety of
space, time, matter, energy, and the physical lawsand constants that
describe them.
The various universes within the multiverse are called "parallel
universes", "other universes" or "alternate universes."....
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