Re: [OT] The stupidity of being too clever by half...
From: Rich The Philosophizer (null_at_example.net)
Date: 11/07/04
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Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 19:08:38 GMT
On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 07:56:36 +0000, Scott Stephens wrote:
> It reduces to the Anthropic Principle - if the universe wasn't such as
> it is, we wouldn't be conscious to examine it. But that doesn't tell us
> how or why the universe is, just that it is.
>
> What if the principles of science change tomorrow, and the space-time
> manifold becomes chaotic? Who says the fundamental constants of physics,
> or how they relate to each other can't change? What if the value of Pi
> were to change?
Pretty scary, huh?
;^j
Rich
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