"Maurice Barnhill"  wrote in message
news:cloeln$2n28$1{at}darwin.ediacara.org...
> Michael Ragland wrote:

> I think that there are at least two meanings of multiple 
> universes, and I don't understand all the possibilities.  One, 
> however, is that we are inside an expanding bubble of space-time 
> which is only part of the complete universe.  There could be 
> other bubbles that we will never be connected to, and the 
> "constants" of physics might even be different in the other 
> bubbles.  In passing, it is pretty obvious that this idea can 
> easily fall prey to Occam's Razor.

That would be the razor of irrelevance, would it not? :-)

Other than that, to my miniscule mind the only obvious thing
with the idea of a Multiverse is that it is the only idea (of Infinity) 
that makes sense as far as it logically offers us the opportunity 
to exist ;-).

That is, exist through the quasi Darwinian anthropic principle. 

P
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