{"id":162606,"date":"2023-04-22T00:23:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T05:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/the-multiverse-our-universe-is-suspiciously-unlikely-to-exist-unless-it-is-one-of-many"},"modified":"2023-04-22T00:23:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T05:23:07","slug":"the-multiverse-our-universe-is-suspiciously-unlikely-to-exist-unless-it-is-one-of-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/the-multiverse-our-universe-is-suspiciously-unlikely-to-exist-unless-it-is-one-of-many","title":{"rendered":"The Multiverse: Our Universe Is Suspiciously Unlikely to Exist\u2014Unless It Is One of Many"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2hIao4I4vsE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But we expect that it\u2019s in that first tiny fraction of a second that the key features of our universe were imprinted.<\/p>\n<p>The conditions of the universe can be described through its \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/physics.nist.gov\/cuu\/Constants\/introduction.html\">fundamental constants<\/a>\u201d\u2014fixed quantities in nature, such as the gravitational constant (called G) or the speed of light (called C). There are about 30 of these representing the sizes and strengths of parameters such as particle masses, forces, or the universe\u2019s expansion. But our theories don\u2019t explain what values these constants should have. Instead, we have to measure them and plug their values into our equations to accurately describe nature.<\/p>\n<p>The values of the constants are in the range that allows complex systems such as stars, planets, carbon, and ultimately humans to evolve. Physicists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/81884.Just_Six_Numbers\">have discovered<\/a> that if we tweaked some of these parameters by just a few percent, it would render our universe lifeless. The fact that life exists, therefore, takes some explaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But we expect that it\u2019s in that first tiny fraction of a second that the key features of our universe were imprinted. The conditions of the universe can be described through its \u201cfundamental constants\u201d\u2014fixed quantities in nature, such as the gravitational constant (called G) or the speed of light (called C). There are about 30 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,41,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-information-science","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}