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To: Heartlander
To better than a hundred orders of magnitude, your legs are exactly as long as they need to be to reach the ground. If they were 10% shorter, you'd hover above the ground as you walked. If they were 10% longer, you'd have to have someone dig holes for you to step into in order to walk.

(Subtext for the obtuse: apparent fine-tuning problems are a strong indication of an underlying physics principle that has yet to be discovered.)

20 posted on 10/15/2001 7:50:41 PM PDT by Physicist
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To: Physicist
To state the obvious and yet ignore it at the same time... That must be bliss.

You are an arms length away from the stars I suppose. Is your understanding of them that much closer?

26 posted on 10/15/2001 8:02:58 PM PDT by Heartlander
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To: Physicist
The factual context of this post fits nicely within the "many universes" hypothesis, would you not agree? I am, though, more interested these days in the implications of quantum mechanics that point to the operative relevance of things unseen. And I believe that the Western, objective, scientific, rationalist, reductionist mindset with its unparalleled successes has made us blind to what moves the universe in all its massive and miniscule ways. Clockwork, in my humble view, is not enough. I would agree that we are anything but yet fully scientifically informed but I would suggest that the old ways of knowing may be near exhaustion. There is, again in my humble view, strong evidence of mind operating beyond and beneath or outside of physicality.

I just knew you would want to hear me declaim on all of this . . . ;-}

60 posted on 10/16/2001 6:26:51 AM PDT by Phaedrus
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