You should read The Multiverse Hierarchy if you haven’t.
Thanks for the link :). But I confess that I was hoping that someone could at least hint at Tegmark’s answers to my questions. That would help me to decide whether reading the papers is worth it.
Sorry, I’m not sure how to satisfactorily answer your questions. Don’t be intimidated by the paper though; Tegmark may be the best popular science writer out there and The Multiverse Hierarchy is written for a wide audience. It is not dumbed down; it just doesn’t have any math. Even the “full-strength” paper is not very mathy in the scheme of physics papers.
No, I am going by the characterization of the hypothesis given on LW.
Thanks for the link :). But I confess that I was hoping that someone could at least hint at Tegmark’s answers to my questions. That would help me to decide whether reading the papers is worth it.
Sorry, I’m not sure how to satisfactorily answer your questions. Don’t be intimidated by the paper though; Tegmark may be the best popular science writer out there and The Multiverse Hierarchy is written for a wide audience. It is not dumbed down; it just doesn’t have any math. Even the “full-strength” paper is not very mathy in the scheme of physics papers.