Dr. Stephen Meyer

Good question.

Really good question.

And what's that all about?

Well, this is an attempt to inflate the probabilistic resources, to say that the thief has an infinite number of opportunities to crack the code on the lock.

And the idea is that, well, yes, the probability of landing on the correct ensemble of fine-tuning parameters is infinitesimally small in our universe.

taking into account elementary particles, seconds since the Big Bang.

Any factor you want to figure in, the probabilistic resources within our universe are way too small to expect that you would settle on those fine-tuning parameters by chance.

But what if...

There was a gabillion other universes out there.

Just a made-up number.

Yeah, a made-up number, as big as you want, as big as you want, okay?

And each of those universes has their own set, their own combination of fine-tuning parameters.

So different strength of gravity, different arrangement of matter at the beginning of the expansion in those universes, etc.,

Well, then you would have arguably enough opportunities for the right sets of dials to... Align.

Align.

Perfect word.

Thank you.

But there's a problem with that that leads to an even deeper problem.

The first problem is that...

Other universes, by definition, are separate from ours.