Re: a prediction of the anthropic principle/MWT

2003-06-09 Thread John M
essage - From: John Collins To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 7:07 AM Subject: a prediction of the anthropic principle/MWT The fact that we're alive shows that as a species we've been historically very 'lucky', the biggest 'break' being in the

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 number

a prediction of the anthropic principle/MWT

2003-06-07 Thread John Collins
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. But in a higher level MWT this good luckmight have

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.