by Tdarcos » Sat Sep 02, 2023 3:19 pm
As to the 29 constants of the universe, all that it means if one or more were different is that life, as we know it could not exist. If some of them changed, maybe life is based on silicon instead of carbon, e.g. the Horta from Star Trek. Maybe room temperature is a very comfortable 700 degrees. Maybe the dominant lifeform on earth - or whatever took its place - is photosenitive like plants. The death penalty is inflicted by locking them in a pitch-black room.
All we can say is that the universe would not develop the same way as it did here. Stars and such as we know them won't develop the same way. Since the number of universe samples we in universe "A" have to study is 1, we can't have any real idea what would happen if some of them were different. In that universe "B", with an entirely different form of life, they're probably arguing if life could exist in a universe with the 29 constants having one or more settings different from theirs, who, in that universe "C", they're arguing whether life could exist in a universe with our settings or the setting in "B", and so on, and so on, and so on, ad infinitem.
As to the 29 constants of the universe, all that it means if one or more were different is that life, [i]as we know it[/i] could not exist. If some of them changed, maybe life is based on silicon instead of carbon, e.g. the Horta from [i]Star Trek[/i]. Maybe room temperature is a very comfortable 700 degrees. Maybe the dominant lifeform on earth - or whatever took its place - is photosenitive like plants. The death penalty is inflicted by locking them in a pitch-black room.
All we can say is that the universe would not develop the same way as it did here. Stars and such as we know them won't develop the same way. Since the number of universe samples we in universe "A" have to study is 1, we can't have any real idea what would happen if some of them were different. In that universe "B", with an entirely different form of life, they're probably arguing if life could exist in a universe with the 29 constants having one or more settings different from theirs, who, in that universe "C", they're arguing whether life could exist in a universe with our settings or the setting in "B", and so on, and so on, and so on, ad infinitem.