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To: Didi who started this subject11/25/2000 9:42:38 AM
From: bela_ghoulashi  Read Replies (1) of 1115
 
DO WE LIVE IN A "DESIGNER UNIVERSE"? This question has been batted around since the 1960s, when cosmologists began to notice that the laws of nature seemed fine-tuned for conscious life to emerge. If the fundamental constants of physics—the strength of gravity, the ratio of the mass of the proton to that of the neutron, the energy density of empty space, and so on—had differed by a hair from their actual values, the universe would have been a lifeless dud: no stars, no stable elements, no evolution. It is as if a cosmic designer had twiddled a bunch of control knobs until they were at precisely the right settings to ensure that beings like us would eventually shimmer onto the scene.
The Cosmic Designer Hypothesis is one way of explaining the improbable fine-tuning of nature's laws. And compared with the Big Fluke Hypothesis (which is really no explanation at all), it may not look so bad. But those who find its deistic flavor unpalatable have suggested a third option: the Many Universes Hypothesis...

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