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Comment 20 by Schrodinger's Cat
No. The reason why most scientists reject Smolin's theory is because in most models of black holes, the holes don't give rise to daughter universes. They reject Smolin's theory on grounds of physics.
It doesn't, any more than Fermi's Paradox shows that a large universe doesn't exist. You can't say that because we haven't seen aliens, therefore the universe can't be as large as we think it is. And in the same way, you can't say that because we haven't seen Godlike aliens, then the multiverse doesn't exist. All you get from a lack of observations of aliens is some likelihood that the aliens don't exist, nothing else.
A lack observation of Godlike multiverse aliens means that there isn't even the "aliens did it" excuse for reports of miracles. It says nothing at all about the multiverse.
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