On horizons and the cosmic landscape
arXiv:astro-ph/0603266 · doi:10.1007/s10714-006-0307-0
Abstract
Susskind claims in his recent book The Cosmic Landscape that evidence for the existence and nature of `pocket universes' in a multiverse would be available in the detailed nature of the Cosmic Blackbody Background Radiation that constantly bathes all parts of our observable universe. I point out that acceptance of the complex chain of argument involved does not imply possible experimental verification of multiverses at the present time. Rather this claim relates only to theoretically possible observations in the very far future of the universe.
Revised to clarify claims; essential substance unchanged
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