{"id":176308,"date":"2023-11-19T16:23:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T22:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/are-we-actually-living-in-a-multiverse-the-basic-math-may-be-wrong"},"modified":"2023-11-19T16:23:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T22:23:29","slug":"are-we-actually-living-in-a-multiverse-the-basic-math-may-be-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/are-we-actually-living-in-a-multiverse-the-basic-math-may-be-wrong","title":{"rendered":"Are We Actually Living in a Multiverse? The Basic Math May Be Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/are-we-actually-living-in-a-multiverse-the-basic-math-may-be-wrong2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the most startling scientific discoveries of recent decades is that physics appears to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/fortunate-universe\/780F63557252678C09B4198A2DC04F21\">fine-tuned for life<\/a>. This means that for life to be possible, certain numbers in physics had to fall within a certain, very narrow range.<\/p>\n<p>One of the examples of fine-tuning which has most baffled physicists is <a href=\"https:\/\/nautil.us\/why-the-tiny-weight-of-empty-space-is-such-a-huge-mystery-237188\/\">the strength of dark energy<\/a>, the force that powers the accelerating expansion of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>If that force had been just a little stronger, matter couldn\u2019t clump together. No two particles would have ever combined, meaning no stars, planets, or any kind of structural complexity, and therefore no life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most startling scientific discoveries of recent decades is that physics appears to be fine-tuned for life. This means that for life to be possible, certain numbers in physics had to fall within a certain, very narrow range. One of the examples of fine-tuning which has most baffled physicists is the strength of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,2229,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-mathematics","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176308","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}