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Stars Could Shine In Many Universes
A commonplace of cosmologists who argue the anthropic principle is the assumption that if any or a few of the constants of nature took on an even slightly different value, life could not have evolved — perhaps even stars and galaxies would not form. Science News reports on a new calculation showing that, to the contrary, star formation could happen in up to one-quarter of universes with different values of three important constants. "In fact, all universes can support the existence of stars, provided that the definition of star is interpreted broadly," said the researcher, Fred Adams. "...calculations suggest that, contrary to some previous claims, stars are not only common in our cosmos but are also ablaze in myriad other universes, where the laws of physics may be drastically different... Had Adams found that the range of parameters that allowed for stars was very small, that would have suggested that the laws of physics in our universe have been 'fine-tuned' to allow for star formation... Instead, Adams' study shows that our universe doesn't seem particularly special in that regard."
"...Had Adams found that the range of parameters that allowed for stars was very small, that would have suggested that the laws of physics in our universe have been 'fine-tuned' to allow for star formation..." How is that? All it suggests is that matter behaved as it could given the physical laws. The laws weren't "fine-tuned" to do anything; what appears is a result of the physical laws.. nothing had the result "in mind" and made the laws as an afterthought. Sounds like creationism to me.
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This is so much crap. There isn't one bit of evidence that multiple universes are possible and yet you are all talking about it as if it were a fait accompli? Wow! All because some of you cannot stand the idea that there is a possibility that some extremely powerful agency created the physical universe. Boy, are you people religious or what? Sir Karl is turning in his grave. Only physicists get aways with wild ass crap like this. Any other field of science would be up in arms.
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When I was small and liked to make shit up, I designed "flyingpigs theory" which has 1,235.656565 universes. So there. It's string theory, but with a more realistic name and a bigger number (so it must be better right?).
....So to make the math work....
You make all sorts of unfounded assumptions. Then based on these assumptions you invent numbers, constants and formulas. These are then incorporated into a program running on a supercomputer and voila, the computer comes up with multiple universes! What's this thing about garbage in garbage out? The computer doesn't know that these guys put garbage into it, so of course he dutifully it grinds out finely ground garbage, wasting a lot of electricity in the process. Finally the garbage gets printed and then more paper gets wasted as well. After that people read the garbage and waste time also. All this, started by some assumptions (beliefs, faith) that have no basis in observation. It gives what is called science a bad name.
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Alright. So there are supposedly multiple universes.
Who cares? How does this effect my daily life at all? How does it help or hurt me in the slightest? WHY DO WE PAY PEOPLE TO WORK ON THIS STUFF WHEN THERE IS STILL WAR AND POVERTY IN THE WORLD?!