Multiverse Might Not Be as Inhospitable to Life as Previously Thought0

• From Around the Web, Space
• May 16, 2018

Questions about whether other universes might exist as part of a larger Multiverse, and if they could harbor life, are burning issues in modern cosmology. Now, new research — published in two papers in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society — has shown that life could potentially be common throughout the Multiverse, if it exists; and the key to this is dark energy, a form of energy that naturally permeates all space and tends to increase the rate of expansion of the Universe.