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It doesn’t know, it’s just a coincidence. Everything that could fall through has fallen and everything that could go up has already gone up.
by xwdv 4y ago
It doesn’t know, it’s just a coincidence. Everything that could fall through has fallen and everything that could go up has already gone up.
- quickthrower2 4y agoAre we talking neutrinos here?
- xwdv 4y agoOp said how does the floor know with what force to push back. Well guess what Op, it doesn’t. It’s a coincidence. Suppose you had a vertical series of random floors that exert random levels of force. If you step on one and fall through, then you just fall onto the next floor. And if that one doesn’t exert enough force, you fall through that one as well. This could continue, until you finally hit a floor that exerts sufficient force back to you, and that is the floor you will rest on, perhaps forever, if these falls killed you in the process. It is by sheer coincidence you found a floor capable of holding you. In essence this is what must have happened at some point with everything in the universe, giving us the world we have today, a world built entirely by coincidence.
- barbazoo 4y agoI think there's something to this. It tickles my intuition.
- astrange 4y agoThat’s a kind of anthropic principle argument, but the other part of it is that the floor was designed to not collapse. If it was designed for you to fall through then it’d do that.