RC Question 12 Explanation
DISCUSSION: In the multiverse theory of the 3rd paragraph, almost all universes don’t have the right laws for life. But because there are many universes, a few randomly succeed in having the right laws.
So, the action hero would be one of millions, and most had failed along the way. But a few heroes succeeded due to luck and randomness. An individual hero is a single universe, the multiverse is the set of all heroes.
Hero alive = universe capable of supporting life
Hero dead = universe incapable of supporting life
Millions of heroes on same mission = multiverse with many universes
Remember, the answers are comparing an action hero to a universe. Most of the wrong answers would require some sort of God (how else would you “train” a universe, for example). Gods weren’t discussed in the passage or by the cosmologists.
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- What would be the analogy here? A team of Gods working to make sure our universe supports life. Not sure who else could work to support a universe behind the scenes.
- CORRECT. See the discussion above. The idea behind the multiverse is that our universe is improbable, but it came out of a set of many, many universes, most of which failed to support life.
Likewise, if we put many, many heroes in a situation with a high chance of failure, almost all will die. But a handful may survive due to luck. We make an action movie of these successful heroes who miraculously survive. - Remember, the hero is an analogy for….a universe. So in this, the universe would have had multiple training runs to prepare it for supporting life? Who is training the universe, a God?
- The first part of this is right. But cosmologists aren’t arguing that that are many universes succeeding in supporting life, so they wouldn’t argue that many action heroes will succeed in risky missions.
- How would a universe have a map? What would be the equivalent? The only way I can think of is if some God or other universe creator had a rulebook for how to create a universe to support life.
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