(April 18, 2012 at 4:41 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Cthulu, hopefully this reply addresses the apparent contradiction in how I presented things. When I was speaking about the balance of physcial constants and forces, I hoped to imply my confidence that a Theory of Everything* will be developed that coordinates the various constants and forces into a unified description of how the physical universe apparently works. It wasn't my intention to suggest that stars exploding and orbits decaying in one part of the universe somehow offsets star formation etc. elsewhere.
The above meaning was not clear from what you wrote, and I appreciate you taking the time to clarify it. I'm not really in agreement with you, but as this is a philosophy forum, I have no intention of derailing this discussion into a debate on astrophysics and cosmology.
