Multiverse

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Ethan Siegel writes about "Multiverse", an absurd and meaningless word invented by physicists. Multiverse is short for "Multiple Universes".

But the word universe does not have a plural. Let me give you an example: You know that the sentence "there is only one Gods," is a grammatical error because you state that there is only one God but you write God in plural form as Gods. If there is only one God, the word God cannot have a plural.

The same is true for the word universe. The word universe cannot have a plural because there can only be one whole. It's a grammatical error to write "there are multiple wholes." There is only one whole. The following definition is true:

The Universe = The Whole = The Totality

The Multiverse (Multiple Universes) hypothesis is not a physics concept; it is a grammatical error.

Ethan Siegel first pretends to sound scientific before pushing his absurd notions:

Sure, you might say it's inherently unscientific to say something entirely outside our observable Universe must exist.

That's right. Something which is outside the knowable universe is unknowable. And in science an unknowable is unknowable. But not in physics. Because a physicist is someone who claims to know what he defined as unknowable. The word "charlatan" perfectly defines anyone who claims to know what he admitted he does not know.

Then, Ethan Siegel abandons his brief foray into scientific thinking and justifies his Multiverse by saying "but we know the rules. And they tell us that [a Multiverse must exist.]
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The exact quote from the article:

Sure, you might say it's inherently unscientific to say something entirely outside our observable Universe must exist. But we know the rules. And this is what they tell us.

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My comments:

1. Multiverse is not a physics problem, it's a linguistic problem. It's grammatical error.

2. You first define the word "universe" as "everything that exists" then you say that "there is something else outside of everything that exists."

3. You now defined the word universe as "not everything that exists" because you are saying that there is something outside of "everything that exists."

4. This way you equated "universe" and its opposite "not-universe" to be the same thing. (Nothing can be itself and not-itself at the same time. I know that physicists proudly disregard this fundamental rule of logic. For a physicist, it is perfectly logical to assume that there is something outside of everything that exists.)

5. What you are doing is not science. It's not even physics. It is rhetorical sophistry and linguistic sleight of hand. You are corrupting words by defining them multiple times.

6. You corrupted the good old word "universe" and made it meaningless and unusable.

7. If you find yourself talking about something existing outside of what you defined as the totality, you must stop immediately and reconsider your definition of the totality. If there is something outside of your totality, then your totality ain't no totality.

8. To say, as you do, that the totality is not the totality, is not even sophistry; it's more vile and disgusting than sophistry.

8. It's not even doubletalk; even doubletalk has some respectability; yours is outright fraud.

9. And the fact that you try to couch your fraud and abuse of language with scientific sounding mumbojumbo puts you in the realm of religious dogmatists.

10. No. Not even that.

11. You act more like a shaman.

12. But not even that.

13. Shamans never pretended to be scientists.

14. You screw science.

15. You screw the language.

16. You screw logic.

17. And you want us to believe that this stinky garbage you are selling as Multiverse is science. (The word universe does not have a plural. You cannot have multiple wholes. But "Multiverse" is short for "Multiple Universes", therefore, Multiverse is absurd by definition.)

18. I realize that it is impossible for you, and physicists in general, to understand and admit that the word "whole" includes the whole. It's a grammatical error to say "multiple wholes." It's a grammatical error to say "multiple universes." You cannot build a physical theory over a grammatical error.

19. There is nothing outside the whole. There is nothing not included in the totality. This is by definition.

20. If there is something outside the whole then what you previously called the whole was not the whole.

21. When you understand this fact, and admit that the whole is the whole and the whole is not the part, go ahead and correct your article accordingly.

Notes:

--- The referenced article by Ethan Siegel: This Is Why The Multiverse Must Exist. Twitter link.