Rejecting the Multiverse: Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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It can be tempting to dismiss the idea of the multiverse as unobservable fantasy. But what happens when the available evidence for it is given a fair shake? On this ID The Future, physicist Brian Miller begins a conversation with mathematician Elie Feder and physicist Aaron Zimmer, hosts of the Physics to God podcast, about their unique formulation of the fine-tuning argument and their rigorous examination of the multiverse hypothesis. In Part 1, Feder and Zimmer explain how their podcast got started and what they’ve covered so far. In their first season, they break down the fine-tuning and initial conditions of the universe and show how the evidence points to an intelligent cause. In Season 2, out this year, they Read More › Source

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0:00.0	ID, The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:11.8	Welcome to ID the Future. I'm your host, Brian Miller. Today I'm welcoming back to the show,
0:17.9	Ellie Fedder and Aaron Zimmer, to discuss the second season of their podcast,
0:22.3	Physics to God. Elie Fedder earned a PhD in mathematics from the Cooney Graduate Center.
0:29.4	He has published widely in the field of graph theory, and he serves as mathematics professor
0:34.3	at Kingsborough Community College. He is also an ordained rabbi. He hosts the
0:39.5	podcast Simply Deep, and he recently authored the book Gamatria Refigured, which addresses fine-tuning
0:45.7	in Torah, Life, and the Universe. He resides in Far Rockway, New York, with his wife and their four
0:53.0	children. Now, Aaron Zimmer earned a physics
0:56.2	degree, and he is also an ordained rabbi. He has also studied philosophy, mathematics, and
1:01.9	psychology. He is a true polymath. But what's really interesting is he applied his knowledge
1:07.3	of these different disciplines to become a highly successful commodities trader.
1:12.2	He resides in Lawrence, New York, along with his wife and their five children.
1:16.3	Aaron currently co-hosts the Physics to God podcast with Ellie Fedder, which is a topic for today's
1:23.0	show. Now, I interviewed these two rabbis in the past, and it was a really wonderful conversation.
1:29.6	And what I greatly appreciated is that Ellie has his passion to explain complex ideas in
1:35.9	very simple terms while Aaron ensures that arguments are comprehensive and rigorous.
1:41.2	So they make the ideal co-hosts.
1:43.4	Now, just for the first question I want to ask,
1:45.7	could you please describe your podcast just to remind our listeners and summarize the first season?
1:52.1	Okay. So this is Aaron, and it's good to be here again, Brian. We appreciate it. Our podcast physics to
2:00.3	God, it's, it's, there was, it was planned three seasons,
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