I wonder what the math is behind this. It’s kind of like saying “the universe is so big that there’s likely an arrangement of matter in just the right configura

I wonder what the math is behind this. It’s kind of like saying “the universe is so big that there’s likely an arrangement of matter in just the right configuration to accelerate particles to this extent”. In the absence of better theories it’s reasonable but like… pragmatically it seems simpler for a simpler but unknown process to be the root cause. That, or an advanced civilization. I kind of buy “high energy particles are type 1 civilizations’ pollution” more than “there exists gravitational pockets arranged in a manner capable of accelerating single protons to contain as much energy as a baseball”.