{"id":1955,"date":"2020-03-05T15:05:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T13:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2020-03-05T15:05:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T13:05:07","slug":"the-theory-of-multiple-universes-the-countless-worlds-of-ancient-greek-philosopher-epicurus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=1955","title":{"rendered":"The Theory of “Multiple Universes” & the Countless Worlds of Ancient Greek Philosopher Epicurus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In December 2019, half of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to\nresearchers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz who discovered in 1995 the first out-solar planet, which orbits move\naround a star like the sun of ours Galaxy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every month that passes are discovered and announced many new out-solar\nplanets currently numbered at 4172 that orbit around 3,095 other stars in our Galaxy.\nAll this has been achieved by the operation of the powerful TESS (Transiting\nExoplanet Survey Satellite) (NASA) and CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOplanet\nSatellite) (ESA) space telescopes as well as the assistance of other research\nprojects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, more and more support the theory of having “Multiple\nUniverses” and countless worlds-universes-mother and babies universes\nrespectively\u2014all of them follow different stages of life (others are at an\nearly stage-birth, in developmental stage, in the process of maturity and in\ncompletion-end, extinction) and are called in two words “Multiple\nUniverses”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This vindicates the views expressed by the ancient Greek Philosopher and sage Epicurus (341-270 BC) on his philosophy and ideas for cosmology and “Multiple Worlds”. Epicurus founded Epicureanism, a highly influential school of philosophy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Portrait of Epicurus, Penthelic marble, Roman copy of a Greek<\/strong> original of the 3rd century BC<\/strong>
Photo by Marie Lan Nguyen (2010), Source: Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Licensed Public Domain<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

These views of Epicurus are described in three letters which are also the\nfoundation stones of Epicurean philosophy. Although Epicurus written 300 works\non various subjects only these three letters (the letters to Menoeceus,\nPythocies and Herodotus) and two collections of quotes (the Principle Doctrine\nand the Vatican Sayings) saved and have survived intact. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These letters were salvaged by the biographer Diogenes Laertius (3rd<\/sup>\ncentury AD). These views are also supported in the famous poem “De  Rerum \nNatura” (in English \u201cOn the Nature of Things) which is mentioned as\nto the nature of things and it is a didactic work about the tenets and\nphilosophy of Epicureanism written by the Epicurean Roman poet Lucretius Carus\n(94-95 BC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Epicurus said that the Moon, Earth and Sky (in Greek Uranus) and everything\nelse are not unique. There are countless worlds and different tribes of people\nand beasts and for their lives, as for anything else, the law that applies is\nthat there is a birth and an end (extinction).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other ancient philosophers who supported Epicurus’ ideas and views were the pre-Socratic Greek-philosopher Anaximander (610-546 BC) who lived in Miletus and supported the view that\nthe Universe was infinite to an extent, and did not accept the view that the\nEarth possess a central position to an infinite Universe where there are an\ninfinite multitude of other worlds!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In turn, the pioneers Greek philosophers Leucippus (5th<\/sup> century BC) and Democritus\n(460-370 BC) equally who developed the theory of atomism of the Universe (the\nidea that everything is composed entirely of various imperishable, indivisible\nelements called atoms) supported the existence of an infinite Universe, in\nwhich there are countless worlds that had life and some of them are similar to\nour world, while others do not look alike at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, they argued that in some of these worlds there is no sun and\nmoon, while in other worlds there is a larger sun and moon than our world,\nwhile in other worlds there is more than one sun and moon respectively. Some of\nthese worlds had no flora, fauna and water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The age nature of these worlds follows a prescribed order of life, i.e.\nthey followed the initial phase of their birth, then developed, then reached\ntheir peak then entered the phase of their decline and reached the final stage\nthat was the end of their disappearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Metrodorus of Chios (400-350 BC) who was a disciple student and\nMaster of Epicurus believed the same ideas and argued that since the causes are\ninfinite then the worlds are infinite, because where the causes are infinite,\nthe results are infinite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All these ancient philosophers and their views today are justified by the\nmodern discoveries of Astrophysics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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