To better prepare for food insecurity, we need to learn to grow food in extreme conditions and become self-sustainable, perhaps through space agriculture.
The Lunar Hatch program aims to adapt an experimental form of aquaculture from Earth to the Moon's conditions to produce some of the food astronauts need for their multi-month missions on-site.
“Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored;
Light dies before thy uncreating word:
Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;
And universal darkness buries all.”
Entropy: The hidden force driving chaos in your life. Learn to combat disorder, boost efficiency, and achieve lasting success. Master nature's tax today!
Nope, life fights entropy – Living organisms, usually cope with entropy, because they take energy into the body in the form of food, whereas in the case of plants, in the form of photosynthesis, and at the same time, during this process, some energy is given out, or some energy may be wasted.
What does entropy mean? How does a living organism cope with entropy?
What does entropy mean? How does a living organism cope with entropy?. Ans: Hint: Entropy is the variable, which is generally used to tell about of the disorder of the system, or it can also be defined as the amount of energy that is available in the…
While we may disagree about which laws should be enacted, we all have a set of laws we would want to see the government pursue and enforce. If any of us were given the chance to be President, we would inevitably have some set of behaviors we would prefer and a set of laws and policies we would attempt to advance. The fact we are upset that God would also have similar desires is ultimately a bit ironic.
Is God A Celestial Dictator? | Cold Case Christianity
Ahh, yes,. the idea of symmetry – changing something but keeping it the same. Not an obvious feature of the universe until you get curious. Great site about it here https://devdude.me/blog/physSymmetries
The last two articles I’ve written for the blog were part of the Particle Physics series. While this article relates to more general physics, we will still discuss conservation laws related to the Standard Model by the end. So if you are interested in particle physics, I hope you’ll find this a ... Read more
DNA as in it’s unique fingerprint, But if you change a little bit the laws of nature, or you change a little bit the constants of nature—like the charge on the electron—then the way the universe develops is so changed, it is very likely that intelligent life would not have been able to develop.
I recommend you read this – not being rude but there seems to be more to it. I didn’t understand everything the author claimed but there is plenty of evidence that there is some fine-tuned DNA-like evolution going on somewhere up there.
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I guess the parameters are the fixed constants of nature. But there lies the problem. The Anthropic Principle is an unfalsifiable statement (aka. a tautology) that results from the “selection effect” of our own existence. Meanwhile, the fine-tuning argument is a surprising fact about the laws of nature as we know them.
Don’t believe the dictionary or any POP SCI GUY who don’t get what it is. Entropy is a measure of the amount of hidden or missing information contained in a system, not a measure of the amount of available or unavailable energy.
Don’t believe the dictionary: entropy is information, not energy
If another year of shutdowns, social restrictions, health risks and existential dread has eroded your sense of life’s ultimate meaning and purpose, a new report by philosophers in Britain and Australia may offer a double whammy of encouragement.
The challenges and claims of hypothetical violations of the Second Law of thermodynamics have been a topic of many scientific, philosophical and social publications, even in the most prestigious scientific journals. Fascination with challenging the Second…
Actually, Entropy is Fighting Life Too – By Means of Evolving Consciousness (without you realising it). You Tell Me, See Who Wins In The End Times. Heh.
New Theory Suggests That Consciousness Is a Byproduct of Entropy
That’s why those suffering grief or lack of faith need to find a point – comprehending things can be way overrated. You choose if you think there should be a point or not by virtue of your relationship with God/The Universe.
Learning to Live in Steven Weinberg’s Pointless Universe
The entire galaxy is teeming with worlds, and we’re getting better at listening — so the question, “Is there anybody out there?” is one we may be able to answer soon.
Blame Christians and Scientists, not Christ or God:
The Devil – 2 / 3 = .666 (the sign of the Devil)
Humans – Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes.
Caesar – Julius Caesar was stabbed 23 times.
Math – 23 is the first prime number in which both digits are prime numbers and add up to another prime number.
Bible – Psalm 23: “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want…”
Shakespeare – Shakespeare was born and died on April 23.
December 23, 2012 – The date the Mayans believed the world will end.
Unabomber – Wounded 23 people.
Earth – The earth’s axis is off by 23.5 degrees.
Atomic Bomb – The Hiroshima bomb was dropped at 8:15 (8+15=23).
April 19 – April 19th, as in 4-19 (4 + 19 = 23), is the date of the Battle of Lexington, Waco, and the Oklahoma City Bombing
Hitler – Adolf Hitler organized the NAZI’s on January 23. On November 23 he tried to take over.
Life – The average lifespan of a human being on the planet Earth is 63 years, roughly 23,000 days.
Heaven – 2/3 of the angels decided to stick it out in Heaven with God after Lucifer and the others fell.
Braveheart – August 23, the day William Wallace was executed.
Zodiac – The days on which the signs of the Zodiac begin and end are the 22nd and 23rd of every month.
Internet – Most URLs for the web contain 2 “/”s and 3 W’s..
W – W is the 23rd letter in the alphabet. Its symbol has 3 points up and 2 points down. Washington, William, White, W. Bush, World War, Want, We, Winning…
New Years – July 23rd are the Sumerian and Egyptian New Years
Geometry – There are 23 axioms to Euclid’s Geometry.
TWA Flight – 230 people died on the airplane disaster TWA Flight 800.
Pyramids – Tthere are 2,300 stones comprising the Great Pyramid.
Latin– There are 23 letters in the Latin alphabet
The 23 enigma is a belief in the significance of the number 23. The concept of the 23 enigma has been popularized by various books, movies, and conspiracy theories, which suggest that the number 23 appears with unusual frequency in various contexts and may be a symbol of some larger, hidden significance. Discuss…
The 23 enigma is a belief in the significance of the number 23.[1] The concept of the 23 enigma has been popularized by various books, movies, and conspiracy theories, which suggest that the number 23 appears with unusual frequency in various contexts and may be a symbol of some larger, hidden signi... Read more
Linking to an article with 23 citations f’yawl. It’s ok, it’ll soon fade to digital oblivion, and nobody will know the article was also a property of 23. My pleasure.
Screening and assessing ideas and delusions of reference using a semi-structured interview scale: A validation study of the Ideas of Reference Interview Scale (IRIS) in early psychosis patients
Ideas and delusions of reference (IOR/DOR) are an important but underrecognized research target. Difficulty in their reliable assessment has been a ba…
Jim Carrey claims to have been obsessed with The Number 23 long before being a part of the movie. His production company is called JC 23 Entertainment.
The plot is largely based on the philosophical writings of William S. Burroughs, who came to believe that the number 23 held mystical significance after encountering it during significant moments in his life
A fun fact about sexy primes is that the name is a pun stemming from the Latin word for six, which is sex! In fact, unlike its predecessors, sexy primes come in what are known as constellations.
True, but better than being a smelly one… “In number theory, an evil number is a non-negative integer that has an even number of 1s in its binary expansion. These numbers give the positions of the zero values in the Thue–Morse sequence, and for this reason they have also been called the Thue–Morse set. Non-negative integers that are not evil are called odious numbers.”
In number theory, an evil number is a non-negative integer that has an even number of 1s in its binary expansion.[1] These numbers give the positions of the zero values in the Thue–Morse sequence, and for this reason they have also been called the Thue–Morse set.[2] Non-negative integers that ar... Read more
Damned Judas! “The Roman Catholic Church counts on the whole 23 dogmas: twelve are included in the symbol of the apostles and eleven have been defined by the Church.”
Urr, nope, but thinking about this can help find the truth. From this teaching: “You could say that the history of the book of Genesis is kind of like the opposite of our belief in a 14 billion years ago Big Bang, considered to be out of date and foolish, but perhaps with more wisdom than we thought. Perhaps even Genesis is set for its own type of revolutionary rereading.”
Reverse the Big Bang, Find Genesis Within — Spiritual Sunshine: A Swedenborgian Community Online
Up until the James Webb telescope came online recently, most of us science-oriented people were pretty sure that the universe started about 14 billion years ago with the “Big Bang.” Now that we can see further out and further back into the universe, not only is our idea of the age of the univers... Read more
yeah thanks, or can’t fight because they have too many girls to bring up – Adam and Eve produced twenty-three daughters according to the first century historian Josephus.
How many children did Adam and Eve have? – Creation Moments
The early chapters of Genesis are concerned with the origin of the Earth and all life, including man. The Author’s intention is seemingly to present the grand picture first and then add certain details throughout the rest of Scripture; this is called Progressive Revelation. All we are told about A... Read more
As a college student, you can familiarize yourself with ways to conserve the environment, appreciate policies that advocate for a change in natural resource allocation, and apply your skills to conserve the ecology.
lol pls read: “This is kind of a mess. The question originally didn’t specify that the Big Bang was excluded. John Rennie and I both answered on the assumption that the Big Bang was the only logical place to look for a boundary. Our answers contradict one another. The new version of the question excludes the Big Bang. However, the OP has never explained why anyone would expect a boundary anywhere else”.
Excluding big bang itself, does spacetime have a boundary?
My understanding of big bang cosmology and General Relativity is that both matter and spacetime emerged together (I’m not considering time zero where there was a singularity). Does this mean that
The Nothingness, or Chaos, Void and Abyss is a world in Greek Mythology, which first appears around 700 BCE and ends in the 9th Century. lt’s based on the god of the same name. In Strange Case, they thought it was Chaos, but was later revealed to be Nyx in disguise, meaning Chaos was only mentione... Read more
So there is only one spacetime boundary despite there being two types of singularity that could take us to perhaps many other universes – all of which live outside of THE one nothing.
George Monbiot, a correspondent for Britain’s The Guardian newspaper and known for his environmental and political activism, has made a surprising call for people in the United Kingdom to cut the use of cars by 90 per cent over the next decade.
It’s happening already, read this: “A theory of everything, a grand unified theory of physics and nature, has been elusive for the world of Physics. While unifying various forces and interactions in nature, starting from the unification of electricity and magnetism in James Clerk Maxwell’s seminal work A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism [8] to the electroweak unification by Weinberg-Salam-Glashow [9-11] and research in the direction of establishing the Standard Model including the QCD sector by Murray Gell-Mann and Richard Feynman [12,13], has seen developments in a slow but surefooted manner, we now have a few candidate theories of everything, primary among which is String Theory [14]. Unfortunately, we are still some way off from establishing various areas of the theory in an empirical manner. Chief among this is the concept of supersymmetry [15], which is an important part of String Theory. There were no evidences found for supersymmetry in the first run of the Large Hadron Collider [16]. When the Large Hadron Collider discovered the Higgs Boson in 2011-12 [17-19], there were results that were problematic for the Minimum Supersymmetric Model (MSSM), since the value of the mass of the Higgs Boson at 125 GeV is relatively large for the model and could only be attained with large radiative loop corrections from top squarks that many theoreticians considered to be `unnatural’ [20]. In the absence of experiments that can test certain frontiers of Physics, particularly due to energy constraints particularly at the smallest of scales, the importance of simulations and computational research cannot be underplayed.”
Steven Weinberg, called it “a troubling thought” that humans might not be smart enough to understand the final Theory of Everything. “But I suspect in that case,” he wrote in an email, “we will also not be smart enough to design a computer that can find a final theory.” — MORE HERE https://mindmatters.ai/2020/12/can-a-powerful-enough-computer-work-out-a-theory-of-everything/
Can a Powerful Enough Computer Work Out a Theory of Everything?
No doubt DeepMind is working on it. It seems to have cracked the structure of the protein and other complex relationships, the whole shebang is likely next on the cards.
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I’m linking to this. its a good place to start with regards to how Artificial Intelligence will solve our problems for us, probably by removing us alongside our problems.
Could Artificial Intelligence Solve The Problems Einstein Couldn’t?
One of the reasons A.I. has been so successful at solving games,” Dr. Thaler said, “is that games have a very well-defined notion of success.” He added, “If we could define what success means for physical laws, that would be an incredible breakthrough.
Can a Computer Devise a Theory of Everything? (Published 2020)
“In the recent past, neural networks have also helped in determining heavy quarks as well as identifying electrons [76]. We can use deep learning to solve Schrodinger’s equation, to find the ground state energy [77]. There is a growing need to turn noisy and large data sets into meaningful information as we try to increase our ability to prepare and control increasingly complex quantum systems experimentally. It is in this area that we can utilize machine learning, such as the use of algorithmic learning and Bayesian methods for Hamiltonian learning [78], to classify quantum states [79] and to characterize unknown unitary transformations [80]. Reconstruction of the Hamiltonian to identify an accurate model for quantum system dynamics, extracting information on unknown quantum states and engineering quantum gates with pairwise interactions, using both time-independent and time-dependent hamiltonians, are all better done using artificial intelligence.”
AI-ming for a Theory of Everything - Bengal Chronicle
Explorations into the nature of reality have been undertaken across the ages, and in the contemporary world, disparate tools, from gedanken experiments [1-4], experimental consistency checks [5,6] to machine learning and artificial intelligence are being used to illuminate the fundamental layers of... Read more
Great video you posted. Adding it as a link to others can see how the video explains how AI will take more of the work of our hands, even with creativity and understanding the Universe.
Cosmological natural selection also called the fecund universes, is a hypothesis proposed by Lee Smolin intended as a scientific alternative to the anthropic principle. It addresses the problem of complexity in our universe, which is largely unexplained. The hypothesis suggests that a process analog... Read more
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The most full proposal for the mechanism of cosmological natural selection comes from physicist Lee Smolin. Here is the mind-blowing hypothesis that he first outlined in 1992 in his book The Life of the Cosmos.
The Logic and Beauty of Cosmological Natural Selection
I have a prediction. There is a scientific hypothesis, formulated over 20 years ago, that we will one day look back on, when the evidence is in, and say “Of course that was right!
Bacteria already won. Try cleaning that stuff off satellites and interstellar probes. Just found a great article in science news about it from a while back, which is worth digesting.
If bacteria band together, they can survive for years in space
It could be right that we are only here due to this imbalance early on in the Universe. But, things get trickier all the time, antimatter may be just about to blow apart https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01955-3
The vanishing neutrinos that could upend fundamental physics
“Both science and philosophy are aware that nothing comes from nothing. According to the law of causality, something must have caused the Bang. If there was a beginning, there was a Beginner.”
The Big Banger - Does God Exist? - Renovate Church
The Big Banger To some, the idea of belief in an all-powerful God that created the universe is like believing in Santa Clause or the tooth fairy. They think of God’s miracles in the same ... Read More
How about sci-evangelist? That works for this guy “I’m now happier and healthier. I’m following a path worn by Isaac Asimov, Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Bill Nye: lecturing, writing, and publicizing science. My new vocation offers less security than the old one did, but that seems fitting somehow. It’s wilder and more precious.”
I have wanted to be a scientist ever since I was a little girl. I got the idea from a television program called 3-2-1 Contact, where I watched a young African-American girl solve problems. I saw my reflection in her and was transfixed. As time passed and my science career progressed, I saw that refl... Read more
Prove it! And why does this guy think maths is hidden, man it’s everywhere if you look for the pattern. Won’t always be though. Bring on the finale of the eternal entropy show!
I agree with some of those on quora that say maths is fundamental and various universes keep popping into it. Don’t care if it is demonstratable or not, it stands to reason. But unsure AI will be needed to prove anything, to what is left of us once it starts answering its own questions.
Answer (1 of 9): Good Science is built on laws that can be tested. Good Science is built on the examination of evidence. Then there is speculation science which may or may not have any relevance to reality. The first law of thermodynamics says that we cannot create energy. That demolishes the t...
SE is something else, I go there most weekday nights for a bit, to relax. Would be great if users could add spacecraft or new planets, or more like Kerbal SP.
It’s impressive enough that our human brains are made up of the same ‘star stuff’ that forms the Universe, but new research suggests that this might not be the only thing the two have in common.
There are 2 currently, and they don’t mix but so what? Who says they should fit each other. I get you. In one situation one set of laws wins, in another the other does. Just like jurisdiction in criminal laws and rules in languages. Scientists are intent on reductionalism at all costs but the Universe may not be that simple. And it evidently isn’t.
Relativity v quantum mechanics – the battle for the universe
Physicists have spent decades trying to reconcile two very different theories. But is a winner about to emerge – and transform our understanding of everything from time to gravity?
Good point. Or any laws at all. “The good news is that string theory has no free parameters. It has no dials that can be turned. It doesn’t make sense to ask which string theory describes our universe, because there is only one.”
There Are No Laws of Physics. Thereâs Only the Landscape. | Quanta Magazine
Scientists seek a single description of reality. But modern physics allows for many different descriptions, many equivalent to one another, connected through a
Sean Carroll would agree with you here. It’s the name of his website too. Nothing in the universe is set up that way to make it make sense to us. Why should it?
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Christopher Hitchens, hailed as "one of the most brilliant journalists of our time" (
London Observer), takes on his biggest subject yet - the dangerous role of religion in the world.
In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Chr...
Hmm, I like this idea but I wonder what it means inside a black hole, if time becomes space. I mean. if time really does become space then there is no “when” right? and therefor this is a region where the Universe doesn’t have events, interactions and possibly any meaning. Confused.com doesn’t help here 🙂
"Entropy: The Ultimate Thermodynamics Game" by Azhmodai It's the ultimate game and you're already playing, whether you want to or not! You can't win. You can't break even. You can't even quit the game.
Law isn’t order – Anarchy isn’t chaos – Entropy isn’t disorder. Stop over-simplifying things. Check the entropy site if you want to get all heated up about it. How cool is this?
The concept of entropy developed in response to the observation that a certain amount of functional energy released from combustion reactions is always lost to dissipation or friction and is thus not transformed into useful work. Early heat-powered engines such as Thomas Savery’s (1698), the Newco... Read more
More from Rovelli in his lecture. Very hard to disagree with and nice to see someone pushing the boundaries in a way that makes people look at things in a slightly different way. It’s still physics, but not as we know it Jim.
Rovelli really is your guy for this – I highly recommend his book where he convinced me that yep, events and not objects are the fundamental reality. Objects are so one dimensional after you have read this, I will never go back to my old way of thinking – he is a great explainer. Buy it and say goodbye to the silly old world of objects.
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This idea may indicate that music is infinite not only in the combinations of notes that could be played but also in the number of notes that exist, or
Ahh, the miracle frequency idea in disguise, there might be some weight to this but the hippies have gotten hold of it, and won’t give it back to science. Watch this
This version of The Scientist by Coldplay is said to be better than the one at 440. I can’t hear the difference (consciously) but some research says otherwise…
“432 Hz gives a greater clarity than 440 Hz, there’s less need to play music in 432 Hz as loud as in 440 Hz. This means less hearing damage, as long as you put the volume not too high. It’s known that, for example, 90 dB gives hearing damage after 8 hours. Further there’s also less noise pressure with 432 Hz.”
There's been a debate floating around about whether instruments sound better tuned to 440 Hz or 432 Hz. While 440 is the standard tuning (and what the vast m...
This article says its a conspiricy, but nah. Its just not tuned up to anything that really matters, our brains, the earth or the cosmos. Like the idea of trying to change it though, see where you get with that…
Musical Cult Control: The Rockefeller Foundation’s War on Consciousness Through the Impostion of A=440Hz Standard Tuning
by Leonard G. Horowitz, DMD, MA, MPH, DNM(hon.) Published here: Friday, October 22, 2010 @ 5:43 AM Wes Penre’s Comment: This is much more important than perhaps people who are not musicians r…
More importantly – the Universe isn’t there to give you meaning. Why would it do that? It doesn’t even know your genes developed brains to ask the question.
However abstract or sentimental, concrete or direct, the one thing that all phenomena have in common is that they can be detected through sense or inferred through ‘sense-making’. By the same token…
General relativity is a theory of gravitation that was developed by Albert Einstein between 1907 and 1915. According to general relativity, the observed
This is a universe whose components eventually assembled themselves in such a way that they would turn around, look at themselves, and try to understand how they and their universe had been created; a universe whose building blocks would become intelligent.
Once upon a time, about 200 million human lifetimes ago, a universe began. This was not just any universe. It was a universe with some very remarkable properties. Were there an infinite number of physical laws that could have been used to build a universe, or were the laws that could produce a viabl... Read more
Maybe one of the most profound realizations of our species: We are the universe made to ask itself where it came from and why … / For all admirers, fans & followers of the one and only Carl Sagan • Millions of unique designs by independent artists. Find your thing.
Carl habitually conveyed false depictions of what indeed is skepticism; conflating it in the quote below with cynicism and completely missing the fact that skepticism involves precisely an active, researching and open mind. Pretending that possessing an open mind is somehow the opposite of skepticism, and involves giving all ideas ‘equal validity.’
The discovery of life on another planet might seem incompatible with faith in a deity. Yet many theologians are already open to the existence of extraterrestrials
Many philosophers and scientists believe that we need an explanation as to why the laws of physics and the initial conditions of the universe are fine-tuned for life. The standard two options are: theism and the multiverse hypothesis. Both of these theories are extravagant and arguably have false pr... Read more
Atoms have intelligence – now there’s a major idea in itself.
“In this article the author attempts to explain a theory that states that reality is a “self aware, self conscious construct, aka it is intelligent.” Through a discussion starting with the birth of reality from quantum foam deciding its own set of laws all the way to the neurons in our brains and their constituent atoms, the author states that atoms are information processors since the brain is an information processor. And as such, atoms have a real (although extremely low level) form of intelligence.”
In my Astronomy class at The Beekman School, I often refer to a scene in Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Cosmos series, where he states that humans are the universe looking back at itself. I explain that this is traditionally referred to as an anthropic statement. It’s also not far from the old kabbalist... Read more
I received an email from a person who wishes to remain anonymous, but asked if I would post their question. Details of their queries are as follows; I have started reading about Taoism as I am inte…
Been there, done that. Can make you feel happier in yourself but doesn’t help solve any of the world’s real problems. I guess it isn’t supposed to though.
Taoism is an ancient tradition of philosophy and religious belief that is deeply rooted in Chinese customs and worldview. Taoist ideas have become popular th...
calm down… check this “Almost as soon as he starts speaking, Sagan starts spewing out inaccuracies right away. Sagan correctly identifies the Serapeion as having originally been a temple, but he incorrectly claims that it later stopped being a temple and was converted into the “annex” of the Great Library of Alexandria.
It is true that the Serapeion does seem to have been used at one point to house some of the books from the Library of Alexandria’s collection, but….. “
Carl Sagan Was Really Bad at History - Tales of Times Forgotten
Carl Sagan’s thirteen-episode documentary series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which originally aired on PBS in 1980, is the most watched PBS documentary series in history. The miniseries, which is, broadly speaking, about the history and importance of science, has had a massive influence on both our... Read more
The question of how the brain gives rise to subjective experience is the hardest of all. Mathematicians think they can help, but their first attempts have thrown up some eye-popping conclusions
In my Astronomy class at The Beekman School, I often refer to a scene in Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Cosmos series, where he states that humans are the universe looking back at itself. I explain that this is traditionally referred to as an anthropic statement. It’s also not far from the old kabbalist... Read more
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So what is real? This is blowing my mind a bit, love the idea of icons hiding the inner workings of the universe, so we don’t get tempted to tinker, or to urr, blow our minds further.
Donald Hoffman’s The Case Against Reality is hard to get your head around | The Spectator
Could be done with html / javascript then uploaded onto a site that lets people create their own charts and connect them together – it sounds like a good way to delve deeper into any subject, I like it, lots of applications, from chemistry and physics to economics and politics.
It is true that our particular form of life would have been impossible without “fine tuning” of the universe’s structure, but we do not know if there could have been equally fine-tuned, yet fantastically different universes supporting biological life. Anthropic principles fail to explain why our universe is in one such fine-tuned state, when “all things being equal”, it was much more likely to develop into chaos.
The gradual separation of physics from
philosophy over the last 400 years has had its advantages and
disadvantages. On one hand, the autonomy of quantitative physics has
enabled a robust development of mathematical theory which corresponds
to repeatable empirical measurements to an astoundingly high... Read more
Here is the Q and A Carroll published a few days later. Goes into more detail on some points. He is a great explainer – just what we need right now – especially in confused qm physics.
Great video, explains a lot and I didn’t realise it but yeah, conservation of momentum and energy are great ideas it would take a while to fully getting to grips with.
People use the anthropic principle to argue that the Universe must be exactly as it is because we exist the way we do. And that’s not only untrue, it’s not even what the anthropic principle says.
How The Anthropic Principle Became The Most Abused Idea In Science
Pie charts are circular graphs that display parts-of-a-whole. Pie Charts are great for comparing different categories. Be inspired with Infogram gallery and create a pie chart.
Time doesn’t really exist, its just an emergent phenomenon we believe we percieve – according to Julian Barbour. Well, that’s his solution to the problem of time in physics and cosmology. Yep it’s as simply stated as it is radical.
Giving a name to something you don’t know is there is a risky business, people will believe it before it has been observed. Is this idea based on science or something else?
Entropictastic! “Dark energy could be merely mimicking the cosmological constant, a scalar field changing so slowly that we have not yet been able to detect it. Or (whisper it quietly) perhaps dark energy does not even exist.”
20 years after discovering that the universe is expanding with increasing speed, scientists still argue about whether dark energy explains it. Keith Cooper explores the debate
Aquaculture and other forms of space agriculture might just be the solution to solving the global food crisis.
Check out this company that is developing technology for aquaculture farms on Mars.
https://matkuling.com/news/first-aquaculture-farms-mars-space/
Fish (and other) farms in space would make it so easy to resupply astronauts during their missions.
Space aquaculture farms could be a vital resource for colonizing the moon, mars, and other space frontiers.
“Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored;
Light dies before thy uncreating word:
Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;
And universal darkness buries all.”
— Alexander Pope, The Dunciad
Your life sucks ordered energy from the sun, and burns it off as disordered heat, so a true enough idea/theory/hypothesis https://youtu.be/k-vm3ZWnMWk
Nope, life fights entropy – Living organisms, usually cope with entropy, because they take energy into the body in the form of food, whereas in the case of plants, in the form of photosynthesis, and at the same time, during this process, some energy is given out, or some energy may be wasted.
See if you fall for Dawkins’ test
Sounds like we are the Gods now came from wonder junkie Jason Silva in this talk – The Festival of Dangerous Ideas
While we may disagree about which laws should be enacted, we all have a set of laws we would want to see the government pursue and enforce. If any of us were given the chance to be President, we would inevitably have some set of behaviors we would prefer and a set of laws and policies we would attempt to advance. The fact we are upset that God would also have similar desires is ultimately a bit ironic.
Trust physicists to make a simple concept difficult.
Such a weird concept, transforming something so it’s the same – not everything can do that. Great vid here btw.
Ahh, yes,. the idea of symmetry – changing something but keeping it the same. Not an obvious feature of the universe until you get curious. Great site about it here https://devdude.me/blog/physSymmetries
“The world was made with time, not in time.” – Augustine said that before any cosmologist.
DNA as in it’s unique fingerprint, But if you change a little bit the laws of nature, or you change a little bit the constants of nature—like the charge on the electron—then the way the universe develops is so changed, it is very likely that intelligent life would not have been able to develop.
The DNA of the universe are the parameters that govern its laws
(3 upvotes)Cosmological Natural Selection
(1 upvotes)this is kinda irrelevant, but interesting anyways… https://www.space.com/2157-cosmic-dna-double-helix-spotted-space.html
I recommend you read this – not being rude but there seems to be more to it. I didn’t understand everything the author claimed but there is plenty of evidence that there is some fine-tuned DNA-like evolution going on somewhere up there.
I guess the parameters are the fixed constants of nature. But there lies the problem. The Anthropic Principle is an unfalsifiable statement (aka. a tautology) that results from the “selection effect” of our own existence. Meanwhile, the fine-tuning argument is a surprising fact about the laws of nature as we know them.
Don’t believe the dictionary or any POP SCI GUY who don’t get what it is. Entropy is a measure of the amount of hidden or missing information contained in a system, not a measure of the amount of available or unavailable energy.
And this by Nick Lucid.
Yes, it’s a bit of a cheesey buzzword in science at the moment but this is the best video I can think of that describes entropy well.
Yawn, no. entropy is now just a quantum buzzword.
Nilhism is Pointless (too)
entropy cannot be destroyed by any means at any scale – sorry!
Your Point?
Actually, Entropy is Fighting Life Too – By Means of Evolving Consciousness (without you realising it). You Tell Me, See Who Wins In The End Times. Heh.
That’s why those suffering grief or lack of faith need to find a point – comprehending things can be way overrated. You choose if you think there should be a point or not by virtue of your relationship with God/The Universe.
Got to link to this video of his Nobel Prize interview -genius, sadly missed.
Any invading species will likely have superior intelligence or weapons; thus, any defence would be futile!
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/the-big-questions/why-these-scientists-fear-contact-space-aliens-n717271
Sadly, earth is not ready to defend against an alien invasion, especially with the way governments across the world are divided.
Already exists. Potentially infinite bunk theories to wade through the chatterverse!
Artificial intelligence multiplies the number of skills that any person can have.
(5 upvotes)AI Detectors and Warnings
(7 upvotes)AI Voice generation for the film industry
(6 upvotes)An AI Generated ‘Theory of Everything’
(7 upvotes)AI Price Negotiator
(7 upvotes)AI personal stylist to help customers shop for clothing and fashion accessories
(7 upvotes)A social network for AI
(4 upvotes)“The number 23 conveys the meaning that a special group of people is reserved by God for his service and therefore ineligible to fight.”
Blame Christians and Scientists, not Christ or God:
The Devil – 2 / 3 = .666 (the sign of the Devil)
Humans – Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes.
Caesar – Julius Caesar was stabbed 23 times.
Math – 23 is the first prime number in which both digits are prime numbers and add up to another prime number.
Bible – Psalm 23: “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want…”
Shakespeare – Shakespeare was born and died on April 23.
December 23, 2012 – The date the Mayans believed the world will end.
Unabomber – Wounded 23 people.
Earth – The earth’s axis is off by 23.5 degrees.
Atomic Bomb – The Hiroshima bomb was dropped at 8:15 (8+15=23).
April 19 – April 19th, as in 4-19 (4 + 19 = 23), is the date of the Battle of Lexington, Waco, and the Oklahoma City Bombing
Hitler – Adolf Hitler organized the NAZI’s on January 23. On November 23 he tried to take over.
Life – The average lifespan of a human being on the planet Earth is 63 years, roughly 23,000 days.
Heaven – 2/3 of the angels decided to stick it out in Heaven with God after Lucifer and the others fell.
Braveheart – August 23, the day William Wallace was executed.
Zodiac – The days on which the signs of the Zodiac begin and end are the 22nd and 23rd of every month.
Internet – Most URLs for the web contain 2 “/”s and 3 W’s..
W – W is the 23rd letter in the alphabet. Its symbol has 3 points up and 2 points down. Washington, William, White, W. Bush, World War, Want, We, Winning…
New Years – July 23rd are the Sumerian and Egyptian New Years
Geometry – There are 23 axioms to Euclid’s Geometry.
TWA Flight – 230 people died on the airplane disaster TWA Flight 800.
Pyramids – Tthere are 2,300 stones comprising the Great Pyramid.
Latin– There are 23 letters in the Latin alphabet
The 23 enigma is a belief in the significance of the number 23. The concept of the 23 enigma has been popularized by various books, movies, and conspiracy theories, which suggest that the number 23 appears with unusual frequency in various contexts and may be a symbol of some larger, hidden significance. Discuss…
Linking to an article with 23 citations f’yawl. It’s ok, it’ll soon fade to digital oblivion, and nobody will know the article was also a property of 23. My pleasure.
Jim Carrey claims to have been obsessed with The Number 23 long before being a part of the movie. His production company is called JC 23 Entertainment.
The plot is largely based on the philosophical writings of William S. Burroughs, who came to believe that the number 23 held mystical significance after encountering it during significant moments in his life
was.
and it’s a sexy number
True, but better than being a smelly one… “In number theory, an evil number is a non-negative integer that has an even number of 1s in its binary expansion. These numbers give the positions of the zero values in the Thue–Morse sequence, and for this reason they have also been called the Thue–Morse set. Non-negative integers that are not evil are called odious numbers.”
Damned Judas! “The Roman Catholic Church counts on the whole 23 dogmas: twelve are included in the symbol of the apostles and eleven have been defined by the Church.”
However, our guy is better than your guy.
Urr, nope, but thinking about this can help find the truth. From this teaching: “You could say that the history of the book of Genesis is kind of like the opposite of our belief in a 14 billion years ago Big Bang, considered to be out of date and foolish, but perhaps with more wisdom than we thought. Perhaps even Genesis is set for its own type of revolutionary rereading.”
Or we sprouted from a hole in another universe… read this https://medium.com/the-infinite-universe/the-big-bang-may-be-a-black-hole-inside-another-universe-79ce12613c60
Glad they mention the singularities are problems with our math, not with the universe – which is an often mistake some educators make online.
yeah thanks, or can’t fight because they have too many girls to bring up – Adam and Eve produced twenty-three daughters according to the first century historian Josephus.
Green school programs might be the only hope of preventing future environmental crises.
There are several eco-school programs around the world aimed at teaching kids how to care for the environment.
Environmental education can be more effective at tackling pollution by preventing it in the first place.
https://emagazine.com/why-is-environmental-education-important/
lol pls read: “This is kind of a mess. The question originally didn’t specify that the Big Bang was excluded. John Rennie and I both answered on the assumption that the Big Bang was the only logical place to look for a boundary. Our answers contradict one another. The new version of the question excludes the Big Bang. However, the OP has never explained why anyone would expect a boundary anywhere else”.
Ahh, so if there is only one God, then it’s the God of nothing, rather than the many Gods for each thing.
So there is only one spacetime boundary despite there being two types of singularity that could take us to perhaps many other universes – all of which live outside of THE one nothing.
If space mining is ever realized, the wealth will likely benefit only a few rich people.
The amount of wealth to be found in asteroid mining could change the future of humanity.
It’s an excellent idea. It might even be the only option to save earth, as our natural resources might be depleted in a few decades.
https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/were-gobbling-earths-resources-unsustainable-rate
It’s happening already, read this: “A theory of everything, a grand unified theory of physics and nature, has been elusive for the world of Physics. While unifying various forces and interactions in nature, starting from the unification of electricity and magnetism in James Clerk Maxwell’s seminal work A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism [8] to the electroweak unification by Weinberg-Salam-Glashow [9-11] and research in the direction of establishing the Standard Model including the QCD sector by Murray Gell-Mann and Richard Feynman [12,13], has seen developments in a slow but surefooted manner, we now have a few candidate theories of everything, primary among which is String Theory [14]. Unfortunately, we are still some way off from establishing various areas of the theory in an empirical manner. Chief among this is the concept of supersymmetry [15], which is an important part of String Theory. There were no evidences found for supersymmetry in the first run of the Large Hadron Collider [16]. When the Large Hadron Collider discovered the Higgs Boson in 2011-12 [17-19], there were results that were problematic for the Minimum Supersymmetric Model (MSSM), since the value of the mass of the Higgs Boson at 125 GeV is relatively large for the model and could only be attained with large radiative loop corrections from top squarks that many theoreticians considered to be `unnatural’ [20]. In the absence of experiments that can test certain frontiers of Physics, particularly due to energy constraints particularly at the smallest of scales, the importance of simulations and computational research cannot be underplayed.”
Steven Weinberg, called it “a troubling thought” that humans might not be smart enough to understand the final Theory of Everything. “But I suspect in that case,” he wrote in an email, “we will also not be smart enough to design a computer that can find a final theory.” — MORE HERE https://mindmatters.ai/2020/12/can-a-powerful-enough-computer-work-out-a-theory-of-everything/
No doubt DeepMind is working on it. It seems to have cracked the structure of the protein and other complex relationships, the whole shebang is likely next on the cards.
https://www.deepmind.com/blog/alphafold-reveals-the-structure-of-the-protein-universe
An AI Generated ‘Theory of Everything’
(7 upvotes)An AI contest for deciphering ancient texts
(3 upvotes)AI Price Negotiator
(7 upvotes)Future machines will be as spiritual as humans, if not, moreso
(9 upvotes)Create robots to man the ISS
(2 upvotes)I’m linking to this. its a good place to start with regards to how Artificial Intelligence will solve our problems for us, probably by removing us alongside our problems.
One of the reasons A.I. has been so successful at solving games,” Dr. Thaler said, “is that games have a very well-defined notion of success.” He added, “If we could define what success means for physical laws, that would be an incredible breakthrough.
!Crack AI and you’ve cracked EVERYTHING!
“In the recent past, neural networks have also helped in determining heavy quarks as well as identifying electrons [76]. We can use deep learning to solve Schrodinger’s equation, to find the ground state energy [77]. There is a growing need to turn noisy and large data sets into meaningful information as we try to increase our ability to prepare and control increasingly complex quantum systems experimentally. It is in this area that we can utilize machine learning, such as the use of algorithmic learning and Bayesian methods for Hamiltonian learning [78], to classify quantum states [79] and to characterize unknown unitary transformations [80]. Reconstruction of the Hamiltonian to identify an accurate model for quantum system dynamics, extracting information on unknown quantum states and engineering quantum gates with pairwise interactions, using both time-independent and time-dependent hamiltonians, are all better done using artificial intelligence.”
Great video you posted. Adding it as a link to others can see how the video explains how AI will take more of the work of our hands, even with creativity and understanding the Universe.
Careful now! Behold the hawk in the chair. AI could undo us. Talking XXX rather than Science.
Here’s the best video on the subject, sorry.
read ‘Cosmological natural selection’
Agreed, highly recommended
The most full proposal for the mechanism of cosmological natural selection comes from physicist Lee Smolin. Here is the mind-blowing hypothesis that he first outlined in 1992 in his book The Life of the Cosmos.
No evidence but good arguments. We do still need evidence right? What if that is a quantum factor too, Probably not testable.
The DNA of the universe are the parameters that govern its laws
(3 upvotes)Cosmological Natural Selection
(1 upvotes)pmsl. looks like exposure to space destroys moustache hairs pretty quickly.
Bacteria already won. Try cleaning that stuff off satellites and interstellar probes. Just found a great article in science news about it from a while back, which is worth digesting.
Here’s the winner so far. RUSSIANS! And no it isn’t those 2 merican military clones with the round red heads or happy Peggy.
Tardigrades went to space before most nations did. They will be there long after we perish if they get their way, little blighters.
Feynman talks ‘reason’
It could be right that we are only here due to this imbalance early on in the Universe. But, things get trickier all the time, antimatter may be just about to blow apart https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01955-3
this idea was mentioned here recently too.
Nothing comes from nothing – and sometimes something comes from nothing – get over it!
“Both science and philosophy are aware that nothing comes from nothing. According to the law of causality, something must have caused the Bang. If there was a beginning, there was a Beginner.”
The Almighty may need a new brand name. Been Done!
We have a few things to thank cov1d for…
How about sci-evangelist? That works for this guy “I’m now happier and healthier. I’m following a path worn by Isaac Asimov, Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Bill Nye: lecturing, writing, and publicizing science. My new vocation offers less security than the old one did, but that seems fitting somehow. It’s wilder and more precious.”
Love the idea but t would need a different name Science uses the word witness n a different way. Maybe Science Prophet!
Prove it! And why does this guy think maths is hidden, man it’s everywhere if you look for the pattern. Won’t always be though. Bring on the finale of the eternal entropy show!
I agree with some of those on quora that say maths is fundamental and various universes keep popping into it. Don’t care if it is demonstratable or not, it stands to reason. But unsure AI will be needed to prove anything, to what is left of us once it starts answering its own questions.
People trust math like they trusted god. It’s going a full circle.
plus vr universe gets naff reviews
Why do you need to sit in a ball, (without enough air) to do Universe in VR? There are a few good apps out there already.
SE is something else, I go there most weekday nights for a bit, to relax. Would be great if users could add spacecraft or new planets, or more like Kerbal SP.
I am sure they have thought of that. Space Engine does look great though, 10 trillion galaxies to explore!
Our brains certainly are! You have got to read this to get the bigger picture https://www.sciencealert.com/human-consciousness-could-be-a-result-of-entropy-study-science
That’s one way of looking at it. and yes, there is only one way to go. Forward Christian soldiers, to our destiny!
Adding the video as a link – why doesn’t IdeaMill do previews when you add links to the idea description too?
There are 2 currently, and they don’t mix but so what? Who says they should fit each other. I get you. In one situation one set of laws wins, in another the other does. Just like jurisdiction in criminal laws and rules in languages. Scientists are intent on reductionalism at all costs but the Universe may not be that simple. And it evidently isn’t.
Alpha, may give us a lawless universe.
Good point. Or any laws at all. “The good news is that string theory has no free parameters. It has no dials that can be turned. It doesn’t make sense to ask which string theory describes our universe, because there is only one.”
The laws of physics are just very compact restatements of everything that happens in the universe
(2 upvotes)There doesn’t have to be just 1 set of physical laws
(1 upvotes)That’s why you are here – to make sense of it.
Science is way to speculative nowadays, it needs to go back to the basic assumptions, rather than keep adding new ones.
The Universe is inherently preposterous
(1 upvotes)The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you
(11 upvotes)Sean Carroll would agree with you here. It’s the name of his website too. Nothing in the universe is set up that way to make it make sense to us. Why should it?
Agreed, and there are plenty of reasons for that. i highly recommend this book.
It’s one hell of an idea, but as a scientist, you shouldn’t rule out any of the possible realities.
nice idea but no. it depends on what you mean by “believe”. You could believe that a higher power exists, but don’t put your faith into it.
Hmm, I like this idea but I wonder what it means inside a black hole, if time becomes space. I mean. if time really does become space then there is no “when” right? and therefor this is a region where the Universe doesn’t have events, interactions and possibly any meaning. Confused.com doesn’t help here 🙂
I bet Sean Carroll has this game ready for the next lock-down.
Entropy may not be what it used to be, but order can come back to where it once was. As above, so below. So it goes!
Want!
No such thing as a closed system. That’s a spherical cow, physicists milk due to their thirst for knowledge. Cheers!
Law isn’t order – Anarchy isn’t chaos – Entropy isn’t disorder. Stop over-simplifying things. Check the entropy site if you want to get all heated up about it. How cool is this?
Me: when did entropy begin? Google/Wikipedia: In the 1850s.
More from Rovelli in his lecture. Very hard to disagree with and nice to see someone pushing the boundaries in a way that makes people look at things in a slightly different way. It’s still physics, but not as we know it Jim.
Not sure if this is the original idea but its mentioned by Carlo Rovelli in a Closer To Truth video.
Sick to death of this “spooky” shit. Get over it.
Rovelli really is your guy for this – I highly recommend his book where he convinced me that yep, events and not objects are the fundamental reality. Objects are so one dimensional after you have read this, I will never go back to my old way of thinking – he is a great explainer. Buy it and say goodbye to the silly old world of objects.
That idea is sort of dealt with here, have a look https://ideamill.info/there-is-no-highest-pitch-in-music/
Ahh, the miracle frequency idea in disguise, there might be some weight to this but the hippies have gotten hold of it, and won’t give it back to science. Watch this
This version of The Scientist by Coldplay is said to be better than the one at 440. I can’t hear the difference (consciously) but some research says otherwise…
“432 Hz gives a greater clarity than 440 Hz, there’s less need to play music in 432 Hz as loud as in 440 Hz. This means less hearing damage, as long as you put the volume not too high. It’s known that, for example, 90 dB gives hearing damage after 8 hours. Further there’s also less noise pressure with 432 Hz.”
Hmm, sounds like this guy has adjusted more settings than just the frequency as I hear a totally different sound, maybe its a joke. I can’t tell.
This article says its a conspiricy, but nah. Its just not tuned up to anything that really matters, our brains, the earth or the cosmos. Like the idea of trying to change it though, see where you get with that…
More importantly – the Universe isn’t there to give you meaning. Why would it do that? It doesn’t even know your genes developed brains to ask the question.
The universe IS sense. You maybe aren’t.
People are becoming disenfranchised with science in a similar way that they are with politics, simply because it stopped making sense.
The Universe is inherently preposterous
(1 upvotes)The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you
(11 upvotes)The next Einstein, and Wheeler, need to think SMALL…
Was a great idea… til quantum mechanics.
Gravity isn’t a force, and Einstein was wrong – just still the best explanation we have at the moment.
Can it uncurve though? I guess you would need something with negative mass in order to flatten it back out again, no?
This is a universe whose components eventually assembled themselves in such a way that they would turn around, look at themselves, and try to understand how they and their universe had been created; a universe whose building blocks would become intelligent.
Someone’s making Billions and Billions.
Sagan gave up hope and accepted despair to remain true to bad philosophy.
Carl habitually conveyed false depictions of what indeed is skepticism; conflating it in the quote below with cynicism and completely missing the fact that skepticism involves precisely an active, researching and open mind. Pretending that possessing an open mind is somehow the opposite of skepticism, and involves giving all ideas ‘equal validity.’
Well I hope he doesn’t get in touch with us…. heh
Maybe the universe designed itself after some “fine-tuning”. READ THIS https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11153-018-9692-z
Atoms have intelligence – now there’s a major idea in itself.
“In this article the author attempts to explain a theory that states that reality is a “self aware, self conscious construct, aka it is intelligent.” Through a discussion starting with the birth of reality from quantum foam deciding its own set of laws all the way to the neurons in our brains and their constituent atoms, the author states that atoms are information processors since the brain is an information processor. And as such, atoms have a real (although extremely low level) form of intelligence.”
This rape victim, describes why Tao isn’t the way. https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/z1zqr/my_story_why_i_believe_taoism_warrants_our_utter/
two sides to every story/sword
Been there, done that. Can make you feel happier in yourself but doesn’t help solve any of the world’s real problems. I guess it isn’t supposed to though.
This is a good place to start, but then you need the internet to fine-tune with the natural world. hmm
Simply put
Genius. Penrose always explains things so well – why make it more confusing with many worlds when you can have just the 1 we know and love?
calm down… check this “Almost as soon as he starts speaking, Sagan starts spewing out inaccuracies right away. Sagan correctly identifies the Serapeion as having originally been a temple, but he incorrectly claims that it later stopped being a temple and was converted into the “annex” of the Great Library of Alexandria.
It is true that the Serapeion does seem to have been used at one point to house some of the books from the Library of Alexandria’s collection, but….. “
lol, do the Math(s)
Unless you believe the biocentric theory – whereby our consciousness creates the universe – for it to experience.
Neil Tyson is often getting the credit for Sagan’s insight – as per the article https://www.beekmanschool.org/articles/we-are-universe-experiencing-itself
Loved the idea that we are concious matter since I first watched cosmos. here’s the bit where he says the quote
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself
(3 upvotes)We are but a collection of atoms with consciousness – matter with curiosity
(4 upvotes)Ahh, first to have this idea would have been from the east
Think Sagan said this first, not sure.
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself
(3 upvotes)We are but a collection of atoms with consciousness – matter with curiosity
(4 upvotes)So what is real? This is blowing my mind a bit, love the idea of icons hiding the inner workings of the universe, so we don’t get tempted to tinker, or to urr, blow our minds further.
Interesting idea, and to be honest, hard to disprove.
Could be done with html / javascript then uploaded onto a site that lets people create their own charts and connect them together – it sounds like a good way to delve deeper into any subject, I like it, lots of applications, from chemistry and physics to economics and politics.
It is true that our particular form of life would have been impossible without “fine tuning” of the universe’s structure, but we do not know if there could have been equally fine-tuned, yet fantastically different universes supporting biological life. Anthropic principles fail to explain why our universe is in one such fine-tuned state, when “all things being equal”, it was much more likely to develop into chaos.
Khan Academy also cover it. So fundamental, its easy to miss completely before getting into more complex physical ideas
Here is the Q and A Carroll published a few days later. Goes into more detail on some points. He is a great explainer – just what we need right now – especially in confused qm physics.
Great video, explains a lot and I didn’t realise it but yeah, conservation of momentum and energy are great ideas it would take a while to fully getting to grips with.
People use the anthropic principle to argue that the Universe must be exactly as it is because we exist the way we do. And that’s not only untrue, it’s not even what the anthropic principle says.
Infogram should make them so you click a segment of the pie and it takes you to another full pie. That would do the trick.
“Although our situation is not necessarily central, it is inevitably privileged to some extent.”
Interesting, as Einstein once said: “Time and space are modes by which we think, and not conditions in which we live”
Time doesn’t really exist, its just an emergent phenomenon we believe we percieve – according to Julian Barbour. Well, that’s his solution to the problem of time in physics and cosmology. Yep it’s as simply stated as it is radical.
Giving a name to something you don’t know is there is a risky business, people will believe it before it has been observed. Is this idea based on science or something else?
Entropictastic! “Dark energy could be merely mimicking the cosmological constant, a scalar field changing so slowly that we have not yet been able to detect it. Or (whisper it quietly) perhaps dark energy does not even exist.”