It will happen to all of us, that at some point you get tapped on the shoulder and told, not just that the party’s over, but slightly worse: the party’s going on—but you have to leave. And it’s going on without you. That’s the reflection that I think most upsets people about their demise. All […]
…there is strong evidence that there was no beginning to Reality. It seems very likely, now, that we live in a Universe that is part of a Multiverse. If any of the eight different scenarios now being contemplated is true, there are an infinite number of Universes which are of different ages, configurations, and even physical laws. What’s more, they are being born all the time. Given this, there is no reason to think that the process will ever end and—more significantly—that it ever began.