The universe in a lab?!

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Quite an interesting article:

http://slate.msn.com/id/2100715/

To many atheists, the very idea that our world could have been created by a conscious being seems downright nutty. How could anyone, even a god, "make" a universe?

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Among the many curious implications of Linde's theory, one stands out for our present purposes: It doesn't take all that much to create a universe. Resources on a cosmic scale are not required. It might even be possible for someone in a not terribly advanced civilization to cook up a new universe in a laboratory. Which leads to an arresting thought: Could that be how our universe came into being?
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Love this comment at the end of the article -
More orthodox believers, on the other hand, will seek refuge in the question, "But who created the physicist hacker?" Let's hope it's not hackers all the way up.
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". . .To many atheists, the very idea that our world could have been created by a conscious being seems downright nutty. How could anyone, even a god, "make" a universe. . ."


That's ridiculous, it isn't that atheist think the universe
couldn't be made, it's that we feel there is insufficient evidence that it was.


As an aside, if our universe was made by a non-omnipotent physicist, then how much worship do we owe him? Personally I've never been down with the whole God made everything so he can do what he wants with it line of thinking.
 
In fact, it might end up disappearing altogether from the world of its creator.
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Wouldn't that violate certain laws. I mean, if it takes mass to create, but then it vanishes, it must. Maybe the laws've always been wrong, and this is just the first evidence to correct the mistake. Gotta love the self-correcting methods of science.
What banged? Why did it bang? And what was going on before it banged?
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Now I'm no physicist, but I was under the impression that there was no 'before' the big bang; maybe that doesn't apply when 'before' is in another universe.
There is no obvious reason they should take one value rather than another. (Why, for instance, is the strength of gravity in our universe determined by a number with the digits 6673?) But the creator, by fixing certain values for these dozens of constants, could write a subtle message into the very structure of the universe.
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Sounds like Contact. Maybe we should write a circle of 1s and 0s in pi :D. Or we could make pi exactly 3, just for fun.

Of course I personally don't trust MSN as my source of scientific news; has anything regarding this been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. I notice they didn't give any details on how to bring about these new universes, although it definately does seem interesting.
 
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