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by wetpaws 5y ago
Nobody knows
- dnautics 5y agois the annoying answer "if it were really that much shorter we probably wouldn't exist"?
- idontwantthis 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
- hilbert42 5y agoI actually heard Frank Tipler give a long talk of about 40 minutes on radio about the Anthropic principle several—perhaps even three—decades ago. At the time it was an exciting notion (and he was very animated when discussing the matter which made it all the more interesting). Then I thought his notion likely balmy or eccentric, now I've no opinion as my brain tends to overheat whenever I think about it. ;-)
- kjeetgill 5y agoIt's like how every number n has the factors 1 x n. It's always _an answer_, but never the juicy one.
- hilbert42 5y ago"...much shorter we probably wouldn't exist" Reckon that stands to reason, same goes for the physical constants, c, µ, ε, α, etc. But why remains the question.
- colechristensen 5y agoI’m always a bit dissatisfied with this way of thinking, if parameters were different it’s pretty easy to believe that there would still likely be a sweet spot for complexity that enabled life, it would just be somewhere else.