Re: a prediction of the anthropic principle/MWT

2003-06-09 Thread John M
John:   "The fact that we're alive shows ..." How do you know? do you have a distinction between solipsism and realism?   "Perhaps we should carefully compare how often the other planets have been hit with how often we have: They certainly look more craterful" Do other planets have simil

Re: a prediction of the anthropic principle/MWT

2003-06-08 Thread Bretton Vine
John Collins wrote: > For instance, our planet might have > experienced an unusually high number of 'near misses' with other > astronomical bodies. I'm always amused by the sense of deja-vu which occured on mailing lists. There I was looking at the moon, thinking how lucky we are it caught a numbe

Re: a prediction of the anthropic principle/MWT

2003-06-07 Thread Hal Finney
John Collins writes: > The fact that we're alive shows that as a species we've been historically > very 'lucky', the biggest 'break' being in the finely tuned initial > conditions for our universe. At least a level I many-worlds theory is > needed to explain this. Yes, more like level 2, I'd say.