(February 9, 2014 at 4:42 am)max-greece Wrote: This will be a TL : DR for most of you I guess. Sadly - no real way of shortening it.I could be wrong on this, and correct me if I am, but from what I remember from math classes (which is not much
"The probability of a universe existing that supports us is 1 in 10^500. The most likely explanation of such an unlikely event happening is God."
Hmmm.....
1. Probability. Dangerous ground. One of the hardest concepts to grasp in terms of assessing whether or not your calculated value actually means anything.
), probability doesn't work if you can't determine what the possible outcomes are.For example, if I told everyone I just rolled a 5, what was the probability of that, many would say 1 in 6, assuming I rolled a standard die once.
But, I never said I only rolled the normal 1d6, it might be 2d6 or 4d6 or 2d12 or 4d4+1 or....etc etc.
With out knowing the sides of the die/dice, the number of dice, the number of rolls made, or any modifiers to that total, there's no way to give any probability for the '5' I said I rolled.
Applying that to the universe, we don't know how many universes there are, what the exact conditions that were needed for this universe to come into being, etc etc.... So, there is no real probability for this to happen in the first place.
Is that about right?
