4/23/11

A Comment on Ensemble 3 Multiverses and Christian Theology

I wanted to write something about the cosmological concept that there may be more than one universe briefly. These days I am very limited on computer time. The wikipedia article on multiverses linked below is to the point and worth reading for its ensemble 1-4 classification system devised perhaps by Tegmark (I hadn't time to read the entire article).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse

Stephen Hawking of course published his controversial book on an ensemble 3 universe (I believe it was) 'The Grand Design' in 2010. Hawking is a better theoretical physicist and mathematician than historian or theologian though, so I wanted to provide a few comments on the relationship of ensemble 3 universes with their all-possible quantum permutations to theological ideas.

Fundamentally there are no delimitations upon the quantity of universes that God may have created, must create, could create or might have created in scripture. It is exceedingly challenging even for theoretical physicists to delimit the meaning of time-periods of creation such as the six days of Genesis. Days to God even with relativistic concepts have a value uncertain to human intellect.

The idea of an infinite profusion of Universes created anew as a continua seems to require that a universe itself becomes the minimal quantum size or element requiring a new universe birthed from each individual 'new' idea or act. Such universes would be implicitly incomplete and emerge in particular space-time vectors even though the physical constants might be entirely different. A caphony of chaotic universes not seperated by supervening laws could result, and the production of an infinite number of universes and space would require an even greater supply of virtual particles and even virtual space-time borrowed from an inexhaustable supply.

My comments aren't written with just Dr. Hawking's bookin mind, for ensemble three ideas for infinite numbers of universes are not his alone.

God is not limited to physical laws and constants in his universe or multiverse. The entire continuum of an infinite number of universes might exist just within the mind of God in zero-dimensional space known entirely from alpha to omega complete in eternity even as it expands infinitely. For God, I would think that all space-time and universes in whtever scale are contingent being. He might create an infinite number of Universes and reduce the focus of creation to just a particular one instantly.

Theological cosmology considerations would differ from those of physical cosmology. Philosophy too would not be bound from considering metaphysical multiverse topics drawn fromand going beyond that of physical cosmology.

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