April 8, 2006

The anthropic principle does not imply future gain















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JasonSpalding said...


island said...



And I say that you don't know what you're talking about bla. bla. bla... because the ecobalanced nature of the anthropic coincidences indicates that there are natural checks and balances in place that will prevent us from killing ourselves before we accomplish our goal.

"the sky is falling, the sky is falling"
-chicken george

Anonymous said...

It's not unlikely that if carbonic life was unable to develop due to one of the constants being slighty different, that another form of life would have risen to take it's place.

island said...

Except that there is a cumulative runaway effect, like a runaway greenhouse effect, that occurs if there is any sustained deviation. This would send conditions so far away from your wildest dreams for what constitutes "life as we know it" that it would make your head swim. For example, the universe, would blow itself apart or collapse back in on itself without any chance at all for anybody's craziest ideas about what constitutes life to develop, if it were not near-exactly fixed to the *eco-balance* that is observed to occur between the mentioned, diametrically opposing runaway tendencies.

This is true for all of the anthropic coincidences, so the implication for specialness increases exponentially by orders of magnitude with each additional anthropic/cosmic-coincidence.

Problem is... people reject the AP without bothering to take a good look, or they wouldn't be so quick to reject it as "cosmological creationism".

Here's a prediction that I can make with a 99.9% confidence level, from what I've learned from studying the AP for the last three years:

The ToE will not be found until Einstein is vindicated and the anthropic principle is determined to be the most accurate cosmological principle.

I'd reccommend my website to anybody that wants to learn about it without the ideological or geocentric preconceptions that every other source harbors.