Episode 6. Dr Strange and the Multiverse of Madness movie review and discussion. Including spoilers. Finding love in all the wrong universes. Christian take on Box Office hit. Discussing String theory, Multiverses, and the Message of the movie. Discussing What-if, Moon Nights, and the upcoming Thor movie.

Resources:

 

Fine-tuning by Stephen Meyer: (Christian view)

https://inference-review.com/letter/on-fine-tuning-and-design

Fine-tuned Universe Illusion: (secular view)

https://phys.org/news/2022-02-fine-tuned-universe-illusion.amp

Bible Hub: use this resource site to discover the original Greek and Hebrew for the words in the Bible.

PrayerMate App: this is a fantastic app to keep yourself organized and faithful in prayer, and it also has free downloadable devotionals.

 

Various Quotes from the Movie

• “Dreams are windows into the lives of our multiverse selves.”
• You created them… That’s what every mother does
• Wanda, your children aren’t real. You created them with magic. – Doctor Strange
• That’s what every mother does. – Wanda quotes from Multiverse of Madness
• I’m not a monster, Stephen. I’m a mother. – Wanda quotes from Multiverse of Madness
• My moms
• Charles Xavier says, “Just because someone stumbles and loses their way doesn’t mean they are lost forever.”
• summary of scene: When America realizes that she cannot defeat the Scarlet Witch in terms of power, she simply says “I can’t beat you, so I’ll give you what you want” and sends her to another universe where an Alternate Wanda and her children are enjoying television. The children are scared of her presence and begin calling her names, to the point of throwing objects at her until she curses at them. She insists on being their mother, even overpowering the Alternate Wanda in terms of power.
• The realization of her children being scared of her presence breaks the Scarlet Witch, with Alternate Wanda coming up to her and telling her, “Know that they’ll be loved.” This seems to snap Scarlet Witch back to reality, realizing that while she herself cannot be with children to call her own, her love for them must be how other Wandas feel towards their own children. Perhaps even more, considering that these Alternate Wandas actually spent years raising these children. It’s with this realization that Scarlet Witch retreats and ends her rampage.”
• Darkhold Strange possessing Strange, this could also refer to Strange finally unlocking the Third Eye of Agamotto. Regardless, defining happiness is a key theme of the film – with both Wanda and Strange coming to terms whether happiness is a “perfect” state of reality in the multiverse or a state of being they should come to accept.
• More complicated than being chased by Wanda across the multiverse?
• Dream walking
• You break the rules and become the hero. I do it I become the enemy. That doesn’t seem fair. -Scarlet Witch quotes Multiverse of Madness
• This isn’t a tomb. It’s a throne. -Wanda
• I love you in every universe. -Stephen

Discussion of Multiverse & String Theory

Krauss suggests that the multiverse serves better as an explanation than any appeal to design. The idea of a multiverse requires both many universes and various mechanisms for producing them. The first is necessary to improve the odds of generating a life-friendly universe; and the second is necessary to produce them. Different universe-generating mechanisms are at work in different cosmological models. Inflationary cosmology assumes that an inflaton field caused the expansion of the universe.7 As the inflaton field expands, the field’s energy sporadically decays, giving rise to lower-energy bubble universes. These, in turn, decay to lower energy states as the original inflaton field continues to expand. Since new bubble universes expand more slowly than the bubbles that contain them, collisions rarely, if ever, happen. A multiverse of causally isolated nested bubble universes is the result.

In string theoretic models, the roughly 10500 to 101,000 solutions to the string theoretic equations correspond to specific vacua, each corresponding, in turn, to a separate universe with different laws and constants of physics.

Both inflationary cosmology and string theory require universe-generating mechanisms that themselves require fine-tuning. It would seem that fine-tuning, like certain dental drills, goes all the way down.