Some years ago I attended a public lecture in the packed historic, Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford. I do not doubt that the string of degrees, academic awards and degrees-to-be present would have put my meagre attainments to apparent shame. Starting from that deserved humility I became increasingly incredulous as the evening wore on (wore having a special reference given the uncomfortable seating). For this was a lecture postulating the Multiverse.
It is always good to reduce complex ideas to simpler ones and if I have a gift to offer the Great Minds of Oxford it is perhaps this as I seek each Sunday to convey deep truths to people coming off a week at the shop, office or rest home. So the summary goes something like this.
- The Universe exists, so it must be explicable.
- The existence of the Universe is proving inexplicable to natural science (too much complexity, not enough billions of years etc.).
- There must therefore be ever so many other 'Universes' and we've happened in the one that works. [As Uni = one we have to change it to Multi = many]
The minor hole in this wild speculation would be the existence of a Creator which easily explains the complexity. What a laughable idea . . .
Or to put it another way: although this blog post appears to contain thoughts and words in the English language it has not been written by a Writer and is simply one of an infinite number of blog posts and you have simply happened upon the one that randomly looks as though it was written.
Great minds think, but thinking is never enough.
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