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One Cosmic Question, Too Many Answers
"But the same calculations confirmed that string theory could have a vast number of solutions, each representing a different universe with slightly different laws of physics. The detailed characteristics of any particular one of these universes � the laws that describe the basic forces and particles � might be decided by chance.
As a result, string theorists and cosmologists are confronted with what Dr. Leonard Susskind of Stanford has called "the cosmic landscape," a sort of metarealm of space-times. Contrary to Einstein's hopes, it may be that neither God nor physics chooses among these possibilities, Dr. Susskind contends. "
�Dennis Overbye NYTimes Science September 2, 2003
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{OK. Infinite space, in an outward, spherically expanding conception of the universe that starts where you are, that point inside your head where you begin wondering, seeking the outer edge of everything. That's how we get hold of things, we get the outline then fill it in. So you look for the edge. But there isn't one. But at the same time there's something bigger, another context within which *this* is. So this must have an edge, because it's inside something else. But it doesn't have an edge, it's infinite. So the problem is how to fit something infinite inside something else. The nice part is we know the problem's solvable because here we are.
OK, now the other direction. It's not the same. There's only one going out. But there's an infinity going in. All over the place. That's not theoretical that's as real as Mars. Tangible, physical, present. How to connect them is the problem. Because that one outwardly expanding universe exists in, fits inside of, is held within, an infinity of larger, greater, similar 'universes'. Similar in an interior sense. Interior in that it goes in from *here*, this relative position occupied by the human frame.
That's where the door is. And it isn't only smaller and smaller, there's a parallel aspect, an equality of stature, in addition to the little ones, and then�just now reading this article�of course. It goes out from here and into...more of the same! The hugeness of the universe is itself small and held within a hugeness that is itself a miniature version of something that...}