Tämmöinen näkemysartikkeli osui silmiin. Se on ilmeisesti katsanto
ko. henkilön jostain uudesta kirjasta.
Why is There Life?
Because, says Britain's Astronomer Royal, you happen to be in the
right universe
...
In his newest book, Just Six Numbers, Rees argues that six numbers
underlie the fundamental physical properties of the universe, and
that each is the precise value needed to permit life to flourish. In
laying out this premise, he joins a long, intellectually daring line
of cosmologists and astrophysicists (not to mention philosophers,
theologians, and logicians) stretching all the way back to Galileo,
who presume to ask: Why are we here? As Rees puts it, "These six
numbers constitute a recipe for the universe." He adds that if any
one of the numbers were different "even to the tiniest degree, there
would be no stars, no complex elements, no life."
...
The idea is that a possibly infinite array of separate big bangs
erupted from a primordial dense-matter state. As extravagant as the
notion seems, it has nonetheless attracted a wide following among
cosmologists. Rees stands today as its champion. "The analogy here
is of a ready-made clothes shop," says Rees, peeling his dessert, a
banana. "If there is a large stock of clothing, you're not surprised
to find a suit that fits. If there are many universes, each governed
by a differing set of numbers, there will be one where there is a
particular set of numbers suitable to life. We are in that one."
...
The multiverse idea is, in fact, far from new. In the late 1700s,
philosopher David Hume mused that other universes might have been
"botched and bungled, throughout eternity, ere this system." The
problem then, as now, is that most theories say the universes must
remain forever inaccessible to one another even in principle, which
makes the multiverse seem little more compelling than the
conjured-by-God hypothesis. Rees admits that, at present, the
premises upon which many multiverse calculations rest are "highly
arbitrary," but he is confident that they need not remain
so. "Within the next 20 years," he says, "we may be able to put the
multiverse on a firm scientific footing or rule it out."
...
http://www.discover.com/nov_00/featlife.html
En voi sanoa että herran ajatukset olisivat mitenkään originellejä,
joten olisi kiva tietää mitä uusia argumentteja hän on keksinyt
ajatuksen tueksi. ...vai oliko koko kirjan sanoma täydellisesti
tiivistettynä tuossa artikkelissa...
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-- Marko Grönroos, magi AT iki PISTE fi (http://www.iki.fi/magi/)
-- Paradoxes are the source of truth and the end of wisdom
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