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Multiverse theories unscientific

Philosopher of science Karl Popper claimed that a theory is unscientific if it is unfalsifiable by observation or experiment. Since other universes in the multiverse are unobservable, their existence cannot be falsified or confirmed. Hence the theory is unscientific.

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