{"id":15923,"date":"2014-10-28T10:02:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T09:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=15923"},"modified":"2014-10-28T10:05:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T09:05:21","slug":"are-there-really-multiple-universes-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=15923","title":{"rendered":"Are there really multiple universes out there?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vee and I are currently watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p0276p50\">the new BBC 2 series titled <em>&#8220;Human Universe&#8221;<\/em><\/a> which is written and presented by Professor Brian Cox. In the second programme in the series, entitled <em>&#8220;Why Are We Here?&#8221;<\/em>, Cox concludes that our universe is simply one of an infinite number of universes making up the multiverse.<\/p>\n<p>I confess that I find this notion mind-blowing. Among the many questions it raises in my mind are the following:<\/p>\n<p>Will we ever be able to prove the validity of such a theory? Is it simply like the medieval debate about the number of angels than could dance on the head of a pin? If the theory is correct, does it have any practical consequences for us in our universe? Or will it just be subject matter for works of fiction like the three novels by Philip Pullman that make up <em>&#8220;His Dark Materials&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>You can read a brief article on five reasons why there may be multiple universes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/18811-multiple-universes-5-theories.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vee and I are currently watching the new BBC 2 series titled &#8220;Human Universe&#8221; which is written and presented by Professor Brian Cox. In the second programme in the series, entitled &#8220;Why Are We Here?&#8221;, Cox concludes that our universe is simply one of an infinite number of universes making up the multiverse. I confess [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15923"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15930,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15923\/revisions\/15930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}