On Feb 8, 2008 1:18 AM, thomas malloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Privileged Planet is a DVD about our solar system. It lists all of > the physical constants which are just so, not too hot, not too cold. > Together they make it possible for sentient beings to build an advanced > civilization.
It just proves were a simulation in some higher sentient being's apple: "Well, there would probably be a discrete time step and granularity in position fixed by the time and position resolution of the simulation—check, and check: the Planck time and distance appear to behave this way in our universe. There would probably be an absolute speed limit to constrain the extent we could directly explore and impose a locality constraint on propagating updates throughout the simulation—check: speed of light. There would be a limit on the extent of the universe we could observe—check: the Hubble radius is an absolute horizon we cannot penetrate, and the last scattering surface of the cosmic background radiation limits electromagnetic observation to a still smaller radius. There would be a limit on the accuracy of physical measurements due to the finite precision of the computation in the simulation—check: Heisenberg uncertainty principle—and, as in games, randomness would be used as a fudge when precision limits were hit—check: quantum mechanics. " http://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2006-03/000664.html
