Sunday, September 22, 2013

The odds

"The odds of our anthropic universe [one in which a life form can be developed and maintained] arising amidst the total phase-space volume of possible universes for a creation event is so exceedingly, exceedingly, exceedingly remote that its notation in regular exponential form is one part in 1010000…"

with this many zeros:

New Proofs for the Existence of God: Contributions of Contemporary Physics and Philosophy
by Robert J. Spitzer

And given the enormous odds against our existence, consider the likelihood that within this universe such a thing might ever come to be:
Happy fall.  Your life is precious!


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