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What are the odds of all of this occurring as a cosmic accident?


1 posted on 11/15/2018 5:19:25 AM PST by Heartlander
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If we assume that String Theory (ST) gives a good description then the question is related to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory_landscape The number of theoretically allowed vacua (universes) is extremely large and that is one of the arguments against ST; the issue is to find ways to exclude as many as possible and to find relationships between different parameters so even more are excluded.

If this can be done and if we end up with only one universe then we are done. If there are more than one then there are different possible universes and then the question arise which of the suggested vacua that can give rise to life. The mathematics in ST is quite hard, so it will take some time until there is a solution. That is an argument against studying ST, there are many other areas to study with a better probability to get something interesting.


60 posted on 11/18/2018 12:09:05 PM PST by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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Upon hearing that ice is one of the few solids that is lighter than it’s liquid form, I wondered if God made the rule “All solids are heavier”. But then - the first winter happened, the ice sank to the bottom of the lakes and killed all the plant-life off.

“Oops - okay, everything except for water - solids will be heavier.”


68 posted on 11/18/2018 2:09:16 PM PST by 21twelve (!)
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That deathy thing at the end is a bummer.


72 posted on 11/18/2018 10:28:56 PM PST by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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1.618

No goal

natural selection


73 posted on 11/19/2018 4:44:21 AM PST by bert ((KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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To: Heartlander

Bookmarked.

This G-d guy seemed to know what he was doing - almost omniscient I might venture.

I would have skipped mosquitoes, Florida Wood Spiders, palmetto bugs (flying cockroaches), cockroaches in general - just gross, scorpions, black widows, brown recluse spiders, black mambas (no I’m not color conscious), rattlesnakes and anything in Australia that can kill you during everyday activities including sitting on the Loo down under.

Otherwise quite the intelligent design as far as I can discern. ;-)


74 posted on 11/19/2018 8:15:46 AM PST by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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