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Slack.com slash DHQ. All right, I know what you're all thinking. The election is interesting,

but what about the multiverse? Is there some other universe in which the Republicans

did better, for instance? Actually, this is one of the biggest topics in science today,

but it's also one of the biggest topics in culture. So I want to bring on two excellent

writers on this topic. One is Steven Seamire, who directs the Discovery Institute Center

for Science and Culture in Seattle. And is the author of the USA Today, Bestseller Return

of the God Hypothesis, three scientific discoveries that reveal the mind behind the universe. And

the other is my-known son, Spencer Klaven, no relation. The associate editor of the Claremont

review who wrote a brilliant piece called, The Worlds Without End, Marvel Comics, Quantum

Physics, and the secrets of the cosmos. And Spencer has a book called, How to Save the

West, Ancient Wisdom for Five Modern Crisis. It's great to see you both. How you're doing?

Very well. And things are happening beyond, yeah. Well, this topic is obviously infinite,

but I think what I want to start with, I think I want to start with Steven and ask,

scientifically, why do we have the idea of the multiverse? Where does this come from?

Well, it's a consequence of different speculative cosmological models and some basic physics.

So it's not entirely unmotivated by actual physical theories, reasonable physical theories.

And one of those is something called the inflationary cosmology. And the idea of the inflationary

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