Comment by corry
3 days ago
Do you find the idea of an infinite regress -- "our universe is a child of another universe and that is a child of another universe and so forth" -- holds much explanatory power for you?
To me it's prima facie a hollow explanation. I get that some models, like eternal inflation or certain cyclic cosmologies, entertain the idea of an infinite past or blur the standard arrow of time... but how does pushing the origin question back indefinitely actually resolve anything?
The problem is that:
- We have a parent universe we will never be able to observe.
could be a true statement.
The "infinite sequence" part is just a likely implication, it isn't necessarily true. We would need information we can't access to find out.
I doubt you understand what science is about. The proposed theory, like any theory, should be judged on its power of prediction and simplicity. It doesn't matter if it doesn't satisfy your curiosity.
Well said
where is the "prediction and simplicity" part in this theory?