Dr. Victoria GrinbergIt's a problem that we only have one Universe. It's very hard to do statistics with N=1.
Martin Seeger@vicgrinberg As I also studied mathematics: N=1 is always a fantastic start for a proof 🤪
Ives@vicgrinberg Okay, how much research budget do you need to buy another one?
j5v@vicgrinberg Only if you forget you're in a time loop.
Rachel Lawson@vicgrinberg @Lazarou to be honest, looking around, I’m not even sure we have a reasonable ethics signoff on any study.
Urwumpe@vicgrinberg Have you looked below the car seats? Or in the attic? Or the couch? I am confident a long lost universe could be in my drawers with the spare parts. I even have found an old 3dfx there.
Lasse Beyer@vicgrinberg that's what we now have AI for, no? It'll blow up that 1 in no time...
Iris Volk@vicgrinberg Statistically, 100% of universes are unique.
Fabian Transchel@vicgrinberg Wait, you mean *claiming* there are multiple universes (just not accessible, mind you) doesn't count? 🤡
Javier Manuel Martín Alonso@vicgrinberg
Observational cosmology is stuck with N=1. 📉
M-theory offers ~10^500 static vacua, while JWST is already straining ΛCDM. 🤷♂️
In my framework, N has a surplus by design: even if some are lost, the Big Bang factory never stops.
N=1 is just what we see, but the real statistics have samples to spare.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18289357
Observational cosmology is stuck with N=1. 📉
M-theory offers ~10^500 static vacua, while JWST is already straining ΛCDM. 🤷♂️
In my framework, N has a surplus by design: even if some are lost, the Big Bang factory never stops.
N=1 is just what we see, but the real statistics have samples to spare.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18289357
Holographic Topological Vortex Genesis, Multiverse Vortex Coupling, and Bulk-to-Brane Energy Transfer: A Unifed Theoretical Framework
This thesis presents a uni ed theoretical framework connecting three interconnectedresearch programs: (1) the Time-Dependent Holographic Connement Field (TDHCF) mechanism for cosmological universe genesis, (2) the Multiverse Vortex Coupling(MVC) threshold hypothesis, and (3) the observational IFT mission proposal. Theframework is grounded in 5-dimensional AdS/CFT holography with explicit conventions for bulk-to-brane energy transfer, topological threshold e ects, and experimentalfalsi ability.
Sylvia Wenmackers 🦉🍀@vicgrinberg Also experiments... What if we mess this one up?
@SylviaFysica especially since we are on the way to ... 😢
@SylviaFysica
Exactly. And maybe the problem isn't just N=1, but our obsession with treating the Standard Model as sacred. Just look at the Hubble Tension: we keep trying to patch the data when maybe it’s the model itself that is broken.
We often forget that even Einstein was wrong about 'spooky action at a distance.' It took Bell—thinking outside the mainstream—to prove that what was once dismissed as a joke was actually reality. We need less reverence for 'senior' status and more courage.