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Date/Time 24 Feb 2017 11:19:59am
second part.

Re evidence of the multiverse I refer you to Quantum Entanglement and the experimental results of John Clauser and Alain Aspect that showed that Entanglement is real, quantum particles can be linked across space, measuring one thing can, in fact, instantly affect its distant partner, as if the space between them didn't even exist, because the space between them doesn't exist in other dimensions because they are still linked in other dimensions.

In 1989, NASA launched the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite, followed by a second satellite, W.M.A.P. that would put inflation to the test by looking at the cosmic background radiation. The temperature variations found in the cosmos were a match with the predictions of the theory of inflation.

Later two physicists (Andrei Linde & Alex Vilenkin) would discover that the equations of inflation held a secret that our universe may not be alone. Vilenkin realised that that the end of inflation doesn't happen everywhere at once and that if inflation doesn't end everywhere at once, then there's always some part of space where it's still happening. So the Big Bang is not a unique event that happened. There were multiple bangs that happened before ours, and there will be countless other bangs that will happen in the future, yielding an eternally expanding multiverse. The idea became known as "eternal inflation". This theory was then later confirmed by a discovery made by astronomers exploring the universe on the largest scale, that dark energy exists.

It turns out that dark energy is incredibly weak in this particular universe, the energy required to cause the accelerating rate of expansion of this universe is a decimal point followed by 122 zeroes, and then a one, and if we were to increase the strength of the dark energy just a little bit, by erasing four or five of these zeroes, we'd still have a tiny number, but the universe would be radically different.

Then String Theory showed that the shape of the Calabi–Yau n-folds can have 10 to the power of 500+ shapes. Leonard Susskind realised that this is exactly what the cosmologists were looking for, an enormous diversity of possibilities. This says that string theory fits extremely well with cosmology and with all the ideas about multiverses. So the multiple solutions of string theory each represent a real and very different universe.

Both from string theory and from inflation, you have these universes that are produced and these different universes would all naturally have different amounts of dark energy and the amount of dark energy would span such a wide range of values from universe to universe that the strange amount we've measured in this universe would surely turn up, and in an infinite mulitiverse it would turn up again and again (into infinity).

So the three lines of reasoning (eternal inflation, dark energy and string theory) all point to the sa