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Yup, this reasoning even has a name: the anthropic principle. However we still would like to know the underlying mechanism that led to the asymmetry.
by krastanov 8y ago
Yup, this reasoning even has a name: the anthropic principle. However we still would like to know the underlying mechanism that led to the asymmetry.
- posterboy 8y agoThe principle is broader. In this specific example its application is actually reasonable.
- fpoling 8y agoAnthropic principle by itself suggests a mechanism. We know that with probability one there is life that can ask questions about antimatter. Yet the only known explanation for the lack of antimatter is an extremely unlikely fluctuation. But then to solve this probability mismatch one can assume that there many universes separated either in time or space or coexisting via, say, some wonder of quantum mechanics. Only in very few universes the matter dominates just by random accident. Which in turn suggests to look for signs of those other universes.