I am not a promoter of either the many worlds or anthropic principle ideas, but I don't rule them out. The difficulty is that we don't know enough about the universe to be able to measure things that can tell us if either are true or not yet. At present I think it makes sense to think about one (to a few) moves ahead of what we already know. I'm guessing that we may be able to test the many worlds idea in primative ways by the end of this century, and that we'll never know if the anthropic principle is right.
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Date: 2006-07-27 11:36 am (UTC)