Guth Goof

proposing a solution to a problem that makes the problem infinitely worse. In 1980, Alan Guth proposed inflation as a solution to the flatness problem and horizon problem in cosmology. His initial unworkable model led to Andrei Linde’s chaotic inflation, which implied multiple universes spontaneously budding out of control, which can never be observed. The resulting “multiverse” implied that anything and everything is predictable and will happen—a repudiation of science’s goal to provide understanding by simplifying phenomena with natural law. See 9/25/14 and 7/01/14. Another example is Hugh Everett’s “many worlds” interpretation of quantum mechanics (7/07/07, 7/27/04).