Stephen Hawking Gives a Final Verdict on the Multiverse

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Not everything that counts can be counted and everything that is counted truly counts- Albert Einstein

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Directly or indirectly, Stephen Hawking, a man of impeccable communication and many talents, happens to be one man that I respect a lot. That he had quite a challenging disability and could still bring himself to fit the world into his mind, expressing the thoughts of the world to the people living within, makes me think of and embrace possibilities. Nothing is ever so far from the mind so far as the mind attempts to reach it. Hawking died on the 14th of March at the age of 76, leaving the world thrown into a perplexity about what lies at the end of his life's work. But being a man who was always prepared, Hawking didn't so much as leave us puzzled about the summation of what's he considers to be the events that binds the cosmos. He gave a final Verdict, and you should be all too glad to receive it because its simplicity will probably make the world live easy with itself.

... IN THE BEGINNING

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The inflation and its causative world growth

The theory of the big bang made plain lies at the centre of Hawking's former and recent theories of the multiverse. The Big Bang which is one of the popular theories meant to explain the beginning of the world elucidates that something big and massive hit the cosmos creating the universes which have evolved to be what we know them to be now. Now, following the big bang, several other physicists have asserted that there were other minor bursts in connection with the big bang which have led to the cosmos inflating and expanding into tiny universes which are now like infinitesimal dots all over the the universe. These tiny dots of universes do not all look alike or bear the same markings; the irregular cosmo-inflation caused them to have variations as variegated as they are many. This perception has formed the basis for the belief that that pervades both realistic science and science fiction, in that, most people buy to the idea that some worlds are filled with water, some with hails, some are in a state of limbo and some, well, people believe that some planets are filled with creepy, vampiric characters that will scare the living daylight out of humans!

This attempt to explain away the multiplicity of universes, however, poses some salient questions. For example, it is impossible to question the fact humans alone, or better put, Earth alone has the attribute of orderliness and perfectness which has been denied the other universes with the explanation of cosmic inflation. The question is why has Earth been chose3out of all other planets for a positive, perfect rebound? In many ways, the Big Bang theory is like a fallow ground that needs to be finely tuned for it to reach perfection.

THE VERDICT

Stephen Hawking, in trying to establish a meaning to the multifarious explanation of the multiverse, didn't pull down the entire Big Bang Theory. He punctured and deflated it. Hawking denounced that these universes, so scattered all over the cosmos, are not exactly filled with all the variations accrued to them, they are just as similar as our world here on Earth. Whatever happened back there, the cosmic inflation and all, would have reduced the multiverse into a compact set that is easily manageable just as ours is, hence making them have the same attributes as we do here.

The possibilities embedded within this simple assertion are obscure, but infinite. Saying other universes are not quite as very parallel to ours would rid us of the guilt and puzzlement about why we turned out fine while other worlds didn't. Then, the whole talk about evolution has suddenly been handed more foregrounding given that it no longer applies to us as a planet alone but is applicable to the other worlds that have been said by Hawking to be in sync with the Earth. This theory receives validation through the age-long string theorythat explains the world through an interaction amongst objects that are one-dimensional.

Interesting enough, this is not the first time that Hawking has tempered rightfully with the Big Bang. Back when he was on the quest to give a Grand Theory of Everything, Hawking gave an insight into the beginning of the beginning, that is, the beginning of the Big Bang through a theory of singularities.

THE PARTNERS

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Thomas Hertog

It is almost characteristic of Hawking to pull others into his work and the foundings of his theories. The String Theory, founded in 1980, was a collaboration between Hawking and a certain James Hartle. This new theory which was established few weeks before his death had the imprint of Thomas Hertog, a Belgian physicist.

CONCLUSION

While The Big Bang elucidated on the beginning and the founding of the universe, it failed to clear doubts about the other universes, as well as our relationship to them. But with Hawking saying other universes hold less disparity with our world, we could juxtapose and place our world side by side with the rest of the universe and use it in better understanding the entire cosmos. As to hoping whether they are right, Hertog, Hawking's partner in this matter trusts that the universe will definitely give a tell tale sign, an emissary in form of some discovery underlying its evolution into manageable spheres. But on the part of these men, they have succeeded in helping us breathe easy by explaining away the things that are counted and emphasizing on the things that really count.

To better understand Stephen Hawking's verdict on the multiverse, you can check up the Wednesday edition of the Journal of High Energy Physics.

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