University or Multiversity

Gerald B. Cleaver, Assistant Professor of Physics

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... Einstein once opined that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. Through the scientific pursuits, the physical truths of this universe are being understood at levels unimaginable only a century, and sometimes even just decades, ago. These truths are, however, associated primarily with how questions. Neither for Einstein, nor for us, do physical truths answer the why questions. This is, I believe, the issue at the crux of Einstein thoughts. By its nature, a multiversity cannot provide an adequate answer to Einstein's enigma since it is not based upon a genuine all-inclusive Weltanschauung, but several competing ones at best. Instead, resolution is left to the universities, especially the universities 'under the cross,' where the legitimacy of both discovered knowledge, which answers the how questions, and revealed knowledge, which answers the why questions, is affirmed.