Life’s Purpose in the Multiverse

Cosmological Natural Selection in an Inflationary Multiverse and the Function of Biological Life

In the beginning, there was a singularity. About 13.8 billion years ago, all the matter and energy that comprise our universe was condensed together in an infinitely small dense point before exploding out in the big bang. This is how many astrophysics would begin the story of our cosmic genesis. While few scientists dispute the big bang theory of our universe’s birth, there is a growing faction that say the dawn of existence pre-dates this event. This camp of astrophysicists includes accomplished scientists such as Steven Hawking, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, and Brian Green. This growing group of experts say we have to look beyond our universe to find the true inception of everything; We need to look to the multiverse.

Theoretical physicists have identified nine different possible “types” of multiverse that could exist. That is to say there are nine different mechanisms identified that could result in the creation of multiple universes. The definition of a multiverse remains the same in all these nine different models — a multiverse is a collection of individual universes. However, the explanation for how these multiple universes came to be is the part that changes.

The multiverse explanation gaining the most momentum in physics is called the inflationary multiverse. The inflationary model is the one that Steven Hawking, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, and Brian Green are proponents of. Inflationary cosmology is pretty well…