Professor Robert Mann, “Puzzled by Particularity”

Event Details

Date:

Friday, 29 May 2015 - Friday, 29 May 2015

Time:

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Room:

Riverview Room

UQ Location:

Emmanuel College (St Lucia)

URL:

http://centressrs.org/events/seminars/

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Full Description:: It is now clear that our cosmos is riddled with a considerable degree of particularity. In responding to this, a number of scientists have in recent years advocated a “super Copernican” revolution in which our universe is regarded as a small part of a much larger structure known as the multiverse. Scientifically, this entails an unprecedented combination of broadened theoretical perspective with severe empirical limitations, implicitly redefining what is meant by science. Theologically, it introduces a new question: Why is there something instead of everything?

This talk will give an overview of the epistemic costs the multiverse extracts for both science and theology. Robert will also explore what alternatives there might be for understanding the atypicality of our observable universe.

Robert Mann is Professor of Physics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

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