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from Part IV - Wider Still andWilder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2021

Simon Friederich
Simon Friederich
Affiliation:
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
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The chapter concludes the book with some reflections on the future of physics in the light of the possibility that we may neither ever be able to discard multiverse theories as pseudoscience nor obtain compelling evidence in favor of some multiverse theory or for the correct theory of fundamental physics as determinately “not” being a multiverse theory. We may never find out, in other words, whether there are other universes with different parameters. Our knowledge of physics “at large” – just as our knowledge of physics “at small” – may forever be limited.

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science versus pseudo-sciencefuture of physicsfundamentalitylimits to knowledgehumility
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Multiverse Theories
A Philosophical Perspective
 , pp. 178 - 184
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Simon Friederich, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
  • Book: Multiverse Theories
  • Online publication: 07 January 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108765947.012
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  • Simon Friederich, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
  • Book: Multiverse Theories
  • Online publication: 07 January 2021
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  • Simon Friederich, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
  • Book: Multiverse Theories
  • Online publication: 07 January 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108765947.012
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