RE: Life is at the center of everything
March 11, 2014 at 7:18 pm
(This post was last modified: March 11, 2014 at 7:25 pm by Heywood.)
(March 11, 2014 at 4:38 pm)Faith No More Wrote:(March 10, 2014 at 9:34 pm)Heywood Wrote: 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.
Then why bring it up?
(March 10, 2014 at 9:34 pm)Heywood Wrote: 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.
As rasetsu has pointed out, you're arbitrarily choosing endpoints. Then you're attempting to justify that by pointing out they are the endpoints of our current understanding. You're making the assumption that these endpoints hold any sort of significance, which is especially unjustified due to our inability to observe things on such vastly different scales from ourselves.
Being critical of the end points is a pretty weak counter argument. Its not like they were chosen specifically so life would end up in the center.
The end points do have significance in that we can't observe smaller than the planck length and we can't observe beyond the boundary of the observable universe. The are not arbitrary end points by any means.
All observations in cosmology take place between those two end points.
(March 11, 2014 at 5:59 pm)rasetsu Wrote:Wikipedia Wrote:The size of the Universe is unknown; it may be infinite."Oops."
Wikipedia Wrote:The region visible from Earth (the observable universe) is a sphere with a radius of about 46 billion light years, based on where the expansion of space has taken the most distant objects observed.46 billion light-years=4.35184307 × 10^26 meters
Planck length=1.616199(97)×10^−35 meters
26 - (( 26+35 ) / 2 ) = midpoint = -4.5
10^-4.5 = 3.16x10^-5 = 0.316x10^-4
Human embryo during week one=1.0x10^-4 - 1.5x10^-4 (University of New South Wales, Embryology)
Human embryo is three to five times larger than the midpoint between the Planck length and the size of the observable universe during its first week of development.
QED.
The amount of imprecision here is so inconsequential that to use this as counter argument is the height of nit picking.
Anyways, if you read thru this thread, I have always maintained that life falls in the center....not specifically human life. Early in this thread I mentioned extra terrestrial life as well.