(January 13, 2016 at 10:19 pm)pool the great Wrote:(January 13, 2016 at 10:13 pm)AAA Wrote: Who cares if we found planets outside the solar system. It is fine tuning of the universe, not fine tuning of the solar system.
You should read the book The Privelaged Planet, or watch the documentary, which describes how rare the conditions that permit life. Obviously rare and highly unlikely arguments aren't always good, but it's still interesting.
Here's a couple articles about the cosmological constant.
- [Susskind2005] Leonard Susskind, The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design, Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2005.
- http://www.sciencemeetsreligion.org/physics/cosmo-constant.php
People seem to have this concept backwards.
There is no rare conditions that can permit life. This is false concept. Life evolves in such a manner so that it can survive in a given environment - this is what evolution states. Adjusting to the environment. The environment is not what adjusts itself to facilitate life.
Am I right? I hope I am.
Life doesn't have the kind of plasticity that you seem to think it does. If it could adapt to a given environment, then it would live on almost all planets