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Life is at the center of everything
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RE: Life is at the center of everything
(March 10, 2014 at 10:30 am)Faith No More Wrote: You're essentially just repeating the same thing and not giving anyone any reason to think this is significant. Saying there is only one midpoint means nothing, because there is also only one point that is exactly 13/27 from the bottom of the scale. Every point is unique, and by not clarifying how this has any significance beyond human brains might find it interesting, you seem to be simply making an appeal to emotion

And what percentage of life falls onto that midpoint? It appears as if rasetsu was right and you're committing a Texas sharp-shooter fallacy.

My personal opinion is that there is nothing significant or special about being in the center cosmologically speaking. However some people do hold that place to be special. It's a subjective thing.

If you argue that being at the center holds no significance, I don't have a beef with you. If you argue that life isn't at the center cosmologically speaking, I do have a beef with you.

The planck length and the observable universe, in my opinion, make the most sense for boundaries of a cosmological scale. Life falls right in the center of that scale.


(March 10, 2014 at 7:12 pm)rasetsu Wrote: It also occurs to me that if we're going to use the size of the thing from which a human develops, we should also use the size of the thing from which the universe develops. Since this is considered to be less than the planck length, a human egg is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times larger than what is midpoint between the egg of the universe and the planck length.

The bolded claim cannot be substantiated by science. The problem is our physics breaks down before we can model the actual bang of the big bang. Big bang theory only describes the aftermath of the bang. It doesn't say what banged, why it banged, how big the thing that banged was etc.

We know that at one time the universe was smaller than an atom...our physics takes us back that far. We don't know that it was ever smaller than a planck length.
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Life is at the center of everything - by Heywood - March 8, 2014 at 9:39 pm
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Bucky Ball - March 8, 2014 at 9:59 pm
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Jackalope - March 8, 2014 at 10:04 pm
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Heywood - March 9, 2014 at 12:17 am
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Jackalope - March 9, 2014 at 12:35 am
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Heywood - March 9, 2014 at 1:19 am
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Jackalope - March 9, 2014 at 2:41 am
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Rahul - March 9, 2014 at 2:47 am
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Jackalope - March 9, 2014 at 2:51 am
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Heywood - March 9, 2014 at 10:19 am
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Heywood - March 9, 2014 at 12:56 pm
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by LostLocke - March 9, 2014 at 9:29 am
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Heywood - March 9, 2014 at 9:56 am
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by ShaMan - March 8, 2014 at 10:38 pm
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Menos - March 9, 2014 at 10:12 am
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Angrboda - March 9, 2014 at 12:27 pm
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Heywood - March 9, 2014 at 12:39 pm
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Angrboda - March 9, 2014 at 1:02 pm
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Heywood - March 9, 2014 at 10:57 pm
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Chas - March 10, 2014 at 8:59 am
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Heywood - March 10, 2014 at 9:52 am
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Alex K - March 10, 2014 at 10:13 am
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Heywood - March 10, 2014 at 11:56 am
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Chas - March 10, 2014 at 6:41 pm
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Chas - March 9, 2014 at 8:22 pm
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Faith No More - March 10, 2014 at 10:30 am
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Heywood - March 10, 2014 at 9:34 pm
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Angrboda - March 10, 2014 at 9:40 pm
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Heywood - March 10, 2014 at 9:48 pm
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Angrboda - March 11, 2014 at 1:16 pm
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Heywood - March 11, 2014 at 2:57 pm
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Angrboda - March 11, 2014 at 4:23 pm
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Bucky Ball - March 10, 2014 at 11:05 pm
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Alex K - March 11, 2014 at 1:54 am
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Heywood - March 11, 2014 at 9:55 am
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Heywood - March 11, 2014 at 7:18 pm
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Angrboda - March 11, 2014 at 7:39 pm
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Heywood - March 11, 2014 at 7:50 pm
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Angrboda - March 10, 2014 at 2:14 pm
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Alex K - March 10, 2014 at 2:36 pm
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Angrboda - March 10, 2014 at 7:12 pm
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Angrboda - March 11, 2014 at 5:59 pm
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Bucky Ball - March 11, 2014 at 11:06 pm
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by Alex K - March 12, 2014 at 4:12 am
RE: Life is at the center of everything - by KichigaiNeko - March 12, 2014 at 4:05 am

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