From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in message news:441ebb61{at}w3....
> Robert Comer wrote:
>>>However in which case I go back to my original comment wrt
>>>faster than light. If external to the universe is not a void then (A)
>>>the universe wouold have to shove stuff out of the way (at some
speed) &
>>>(B) to an outside observer the edge of the universe would be travelling
>>>much faster than light.
>>
>>
>> I'll buy that, but you can't expect that whatever is outside follows the
>> same physical laws as we do here inside.
>>
>
> Oooer that sounds more like belief than empirical or even theoretical
> science.
>
>
> Adam

So you've given up on "almost anything happens" of quantum
mechanics?  

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/generalscience/5mysteries_universes_02020
5-1.html
But Andreas Albrecht, a cosmologist at the University of California at
Davis, says the question isn't open for debate. Why? You can't argue with
quantum mechanics. "As far as we can tell," Albrecht says,
"that's the fundamental language that Nature speaks. Nature doesn't
answer questions for certain; it answers questions by giving
probabilities."

And in quantum mechanics, "There's a possibility that almost anything
happens." Including other universes. And if cosmologists are queasy
about that, they don't have a choice. "It comes out of the
mathematics," Albrecht explains. "It's forced down our
throats."

"Quantum mechanics will not give up these other alternatives on its
own," says Albrecht. "And we really don't know what to make about
that. On one hand it sounds totally metaphysical. On the other hand, it's
all we have to work with at the moment."

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