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To me it sounds more like a requirement for life to form, and by extension also for intelligent living observers. Many of the physical laws need to balance each
by Lichtso 5y ago
To me it sounds more like a requirement for life to form, and by extension also for intelligent living observers. Many of the physical laws need to balance each other perfectly for that to happen. That does not mean they were "designed" that way, just that no intelligent living being will ever observe anything else. Therefor, the situation is as expected and does not indicate anything what so ever.
- robertlagrant 5y agoIf it's extremely unlikely that such a balance would occur by itself then that itself indicates something. If I fell out of a plane and miraculously survived, I don't think my response would be "Of course I survived! If I hadn't, I wouldn't be here to say this!"
- Lichtso 5y ago> extremely unlikely That implies that there can only be exactly one universe, whereas the simulation hypothesis (just as the multiverse or many worlds interpretation) say that there are infinite. Thus, the probability of something happening is undefined, as there is no denominator and everything possible happens somewhere.
- robertlagrant 5y agoIn that sense it implies that anything we haven't observed is impossible. It equally implies a wizard didn't do it. I think a more useful view is that is extremely unlikely, and so we need an extraordinary claim with extraordinary evidence to explain it.
- Aeolun 5y agoIf my experience with physics engines indicates anything, it’s that the speed of light is probably an arbitrary constant set to prevent weird floating point errors or accidentally passing through objects.
- FredPret 5y agoBut with a simulation, the mother universe needs that unlikely set of balanced circumstances, and a simulation set up in it, making it even less likely
- robertlagrant 5y agoI don't know - it could operate in a totally different way to ours.