Martin Reese’s book “Just Six Numbers” argues that the Universe is finely tuned in (1) the ratio of the electromagnetic force to the gravitational force; (2) the mass deficit from hydrogen to helium due to the strong nuclear force; (3) the total mass in the universe; (4) the size of the antigravity force; (5) the amplitude of the ripples in the initial universe; and (6) the number of space dimensions (3). From these seemingly arbitrary values it follows that galaxies, stars and planets can exist, as well as life. If these numbers differed just a little from their actual values, this would not be so.
His explanation is that many universes exist, and we live in the only one in which we CAN exist. (This is one version of the anthropic principle.) He dismisses the idea of an intelligent Creator as unscientific. Yet, as I argue in the essay “The God Hypothesis”, the creator theory is just as credible (in fact simpler by Occam’s razor) as the theory of multiple universes, which is quite phantastic, and can also not be proved scientifically. Scientists are simply prejudiced against the idea of God, after centuries of ideological struggle with organized religion.
Actually, I would like to accept both theories, of multiple universes and of a Creator God. In one of my earliest essays, “Simulations”, I argued that this world is God’s simulation, and that He possibly runs multiple simulations of many worlds at the same time. This is doubly removed from scientific provability, but unproved theorems can nevertheless be true, as Goedel showed for mathematics. This could be one of the grandest unprovable theorems.
En Sof is indeed great beyond our comprehension, since we are only one of His simulants, i.e. one of His thoughts. In Fred Hoyle’s science fiction story, “The Black Cloud”, even the putative superhuman extraterrestrial being was stymied by this greatest of all mysteries.
However, how does this fit in with my assumption (equally wild) of the existence of “The Great Wrap-around” (or supercycle), in which we humans create God who in turn creates us? (This is possible because time does not “flow” in Eternity.) This view is not only anthropocentric, but also geocentric, galaxy-centred, and our-universe-centred. How can it be generalized for the multi-universe view?
I would suggest that in God’s other universes there exist entities of a nature totally unknown and unimaginable to us, which also create God. Life as we know it cannot exist there, but these totally different beings might, each also wholly different from each other, may exist. Perhaps they are angels, rules by Archangels or Aeons or different versions of El Kether. En Sof has many hairs on His head.
We can only deal with these verities by metaphors, and so I do not apologize for postulating the angelic hordes, who are always thought to live in different dimensions.