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That makes sense, but isn’t it at least more likely than not that there is relatively normal distribution?
by alex_young 6y ago
That makes sense, but isn’t it at least more likely than not that there is relatively normal distribution?
- pdonis 6y ago> isn’t it at least more likely than not that there is relatively normal distribution? No, because that would make our particular spatial location in the universe special, and that is an additional hypothesis that would require some kind of evidence in its favor, and we have none. The simplest hypothesis is that the universe is pretty much the same everywhere, and that means the average stellar density "now" should be pretty much the same everywhere.
- alex_young 6y agoThat’s what I meant by normal distribution :)
- pdonis 6y agoAh, ok. I was interpreting "normal distribution" in the sense that term is used in statistics, as "Gaussian centered on our spatial location".
- Akababa 6y agoThat's a uniform distribution
- falseprofit 6y agoThis type of casualty is to be expected when a word like 'normal' takes on a technical definition :)