Bubbles of Infinity

We've all heard the theory that we are not the only ones here, that there are, in fact, multiple universes stretching out forever. The recent discovery of gravitational waves from the Big Bang (http://somanyinterestingthings.blogspot.com/2014/03/waves-of-wonder.html) only lends more credence to this suspicion. A multiverse could explain some of the seemingly contradictory points and inconsistencies scientists have noted in otherwise unassailable theories. At the same time, of course, it's extraordinarily difficult to truly register: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/03/140318-multiverse-inflation-big-bang-science-space/
   While this is a propitious development for experimental physicists, it is distressing to theoretical physicists, author and MIT professor Alan Lightman, himself a physicist, wrote in an interesting anticipatory piece a couple of years ago: http://harpers.org/archive/2011/12/the-accidental-universe/