I'm gonna get into this in greater detail later
but for today?
I just wanna point out one thing.
5 “what ifs” that would have changed cosmic history
"What’s remarkable is when we consider how perfectly balanced these two quantities must have been."
(I'll get to exactly what those "two quantities" are later on
when I do a piece on the entire article.)
"Today, the Universe has a density of about 1 proton per cubic meter of space. But early on, it had a density that was more like quintillions of kilograms per cubic centimeter of space.
If you would have
increased
or
decreased
that density
by just
0.00000000001%,
the Universe would have:
recollapsed on itself,
ending in a Big Crunch after less than 1 second,
in the case of an increase,
or expanded so quickly
that no protons and electrons would ever have found one another
to form even a single atom in the Universe, in the case of a decrease.
This incredible balance,
along with the need for it,
highlights
just how precarious our existence in this Universe is."
(Or?
Some might say:
"This incredible balance,
along with the need for it,
highlights the intelligence
behind the universe's creation."
"Initial conditions"
"Constants"
"Laws of nature"
"Brute facts"
Which have to be
just perfect:
"increased
or decreased
that density
by just 0.00000000001%"
mind you.
I dont know what the tolerances
for all 30 of the
"Initial conditions"
"Constants"
"Laws of nature"
"Brute facts"
are.
But if they all had to be within:
"0.00000000001%"
in order to work?
Then
statement:
"How do we know just how atypical our universe is?
To answer that we need to work out the probabilities of each combination of constants.
And that’s a can of worms that we can’t yet open—it will have to await huge theoretical advances."
sure makes a lot of sense.
What they want you to believe is
(I know, strawman :-)
"We are only here
because every possible combination
of all those constants
exist somewhere."
(Even though there is absolutely no reason
to believe there is another universe but ours BTW,
but I digress)
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