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Generalproof alternate universes exist, and that anyone can get a job on television Pin
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Meh, that glow is the nose of Rudolph. Apparently it was Christmas at that time.

It's really funny actually. The background of the whole argument. It goes back to Einstein's biggest blunder, the cosmological constant. He put a constant in the equations of general relativity to balance out the expansion of space-time, because he couldn't agree that this is happening.

Now later on Hubble discovered that yes the universe is expanding, so there is a cosmological constant, now the quantum physicists tried to theoretically calculate the value of that constant and came up with a result that is 1.10^120 that's 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 times larger than the actual estimated observed value of almost zero, very slightly above zero. Looks like very fine fine tuning.

Now in order to explain that fine tuning without invoking the hand of a divine intervention the bright minds like the above referenced background radiation scientist decided that there are 10^500 universes where the constants vary randomly until they come by chance to that particular value, so that we can sit in front of our computers to write about it.

So basically when you can't figure out something, the scientific way of solving the problem is to say, well there are 10^500 universes, somewhere in one of them I might be right.
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