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To: thomaswest; jwalsh07; Ichneumon
Arbitrary units?

In fairness, it appears that the two numbers are a ratio, so the units cancel. The assertion seems to be that if a specific value were different by one part in 10^120, then life would be impossible. As Ichneumon details in #104 this doesn't prove anything even if true, but it's not unreasonable on its face.

139 posted on 08/01/2006 5:34:39 PM PDT by ThinkDifferent
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To: ThinkDifferent; thomaswest
"The existence of life of any kind seems to require a cancellation between different contributions to the vacuum energy, accurate to about 120 decimal places"

I'd say that was pretty clear....

To those who can count past 1.

144 posted on 08/01/2006 5:38:48 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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