MULTIVERSE: PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS ON THEORETICAL IDEAS AND EMPIRICAL DATA
Authors: Dobronravova Iryna 
Published: May 2021

The cosmological conception of the Multiverse was formulated based on unitary gauge theories in the Physics of high energy. Theoretically expected, the quantum fluctuations of the original scalar field in a vacuum state and different variants of local symmetries breaking in the process of Early Universe expansion were the reasons for the cosmological idea of many possible worlds or Multiverse. Together with the inflationary cosmological model, these ideas successfully solved the problems of Big Bang theory with an explanation of observable quasi-Euclidean geometry in our world and isotropy and homogeneity of space on a mega-scale. New observational data, especially discovery of accelerative widening of space, so as the problem of dark matter and dark energy put for cosmology the new questions. These questions need to be philosophically comprehended. Professor Sergiy Krymsky offered an interesting understanding of the notion of "matter" in the situation of many worlds in the 80s. He considered each of the possible worlds as "matter, kept in its specificity", which existed in its own space and time with its set of elements, physical laws and constants. However, his considering the original vacuum state of scalar field as non-being is not satisfied because its heterogeneity defines further places for becoming of Galaxies. In this article, the author considers the ideas about the ontological status of the original state of the Early Universe in modern cosmological Multiverse theories and discusses the possible antinomies in these transcendental ideas and their difference from Kantian ones.

Experience of solution the Kant’s antinomy in history of physics was taken into account. It was the second antinomy of discreetness / continuality. The solution was haven get in a way proposed by Kant, namely with empirical research and their theoretical explanations. Cosmological application of High Energy Physics gets it to transcendental ideas area, namely to the problem of our world becoming one of the possible worlds, just as a particular variant of first Kant's antinomy.

However, formulation of antinomy connected with consideration of the ontological status of original state for becoming of our world has other categorical expressions than Kantian one. The front position belongs here to categories of possibility and actuality, which Kant did not include in the area of transcendental ideas, thinking that the contingency, connecting with possibility, must be changed by inevitable necessity in cognitive progress. On the contrary, contingency has the main place in modern cosmological scenarios, depending on multiple possibilities. So categories of possibility and actuality in the foundations of scientific theories need special attention. Now it touches upon at least two moments: the virtual particles as abstract objects of relativistic quantum theories and to the problem of understanding the ontological status of category "matter" in foundations of many world cosmology in the context of relations to categories "possibility", "actuality" and "reality".