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One argument (while unsatisfying) is there are trillions of possible configurations, but ours is the one that happened to work which is why we're here to observ
by rjh29 9mo ago
One argument (while unsatisfying) is there are trillions of possible configurations, but ours is the one that happened to work which is why we're here to observe it. Changing any of them even a little bit would result in an empty universe.
- libraryofbabel 9mo agoThere’s a name for that: the Anthropic principle. And it is deeply unsatisfying as an explanation. And does it even apply here? If the charge on the electron differed from the charge on the proton at just the 12th decimal place, would that actually prevent complex life from forming. Citation needed for that one. I agree with OP. The unexplained symmetry points to a deeper level.
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- krzat 9mo agoI find the anthropic principle fascinating. I was born to this world at a certain point in time. I look around, and I see environment compatible with me: air, water, food, gravity, time, space. How deep does this go? Why I am not an ant or bacteria?
- GordonS 9mo agoPresumably your parents weren't ants?
- squeefers 9mo ago> There’s a name for that: the Anthropic principle. And it is deeply unsatisfying as an explanation. i feel the same about many worlds