(December 15, 2011 at 2:51 pm)Pete Wrote: So. What do you good folks think about the multiverse theory and cosmological fine tuning?
Paul Davies (http://cosmos.asu.edu/) is really into this kind of thing. Here is a paper I foud under his website.
http://cosmos.asu.edu/publications/paper...s%2083.pdf
I'll read it after I read an old one, on the same topic, that I have. I'll read the above one when I get ink for my printe
Best wishes,
Pete
I find it difficult to swallow that this universe is fine-tuned for life when almost all of it is uninhabitable to known life.
There's also the matter that we seem to be the only ones at this particular party so far.
Further, "fine-tuned" compared to what? Universes that are completely uninhabitable? What about the universe where every place is suitable for life? The sun, moon, and stars all have life forms in them? That sounds more 'fine-tuned' than this one but it's all conjecture anyway considering we have nothing to compare our universe to outside of multiverse theory.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
