Mad Science of the Multiverse

Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?" - Samuel Johnson

“Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity." - Jean Cocteau

THE ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE IN A NUTSHELL

The"anthropic principle" is a hybrid idea – part scientific hypothesis and part philosophical argument - which seeks to account for our presence in a life-sustaining universe using inference and probability.

It asks the questions: why does our universe seem fine-tuned for human life? Did an Intelligent Designer plan this universe just for us, or is it simply one of many universes in a larger multiverse, the random byproduct of an endless process of creation with no beginning and no end?

Key Concepts

  Cognitive frames of reference informing the content and design of this website:

• Antinomianism - taboo-breaking as a means to wisdom, e.g., the "transgression" of Georges Bataille, Ikkyu , the "left hand" or "short path" of Tantra and Vamamarga.
• Animism - the…