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To: Grut

the experimental method still works for events inside our universe, which are the only events we can see or test anyway

like i said, this is speculation, but i personally find it interesting.


40 posted on 12/18/2005 7:42:49 AM PST by samtheman
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To: samtheman
the experimental method still works for events inside our universe, which are the only events we can see or test anyway

Be careful of dangerous assumptions, especially ones that contain the word "only." You're basically saying that "extra-universal" things could never be detected. I think that, at root, you can only make such a claim if you believe that ours is the only physical universe there is. But if we suppose that other universes do exist, then there's a potential for interaction between them, and that should create observable phenomena -- for example, the guy being interviewed offers a couple of potential things to look for.

The question I have is: would numbers such as pi, or e, be subject to the same "anthropic adjustments" as, say, Planck's constant or the cosmological constant? Would math be equally applicable across all parts

70 posted on 12/19/2005 7:01:11 PM PST by r9etb
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