Zaad Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 From an interesting article in TIME In short..there are those who argue that - are you ready for this? - that our universe might have been manufactured by a race of superintelligent extraterrestrial beings. Why? this is what they have to say: ......He admits it's "farfetched", and even those scientists who find it stimulating think it's wildly improbable. But it does have one thing in its favor. The biocosm theory is an attempt, albeit a highly speculative one, to solve what just might be science's most profound mystery: why the universe, against all odds, is so remarkably hospitable to life. Given that we haven't found any life beyond Earth yet, "remarkably hospitable" may sound a bit strong. At a deep level though it's true. Many of the most fundamental characteristics of our cosmos - the relative strengths of gravity, electromagnetism and the forces that operate inside atomic nuclei as well as the masses and relative abdundancesof different particles - are so finely tuned that if just one of them were even slighty different, life as we know it couldn't exist. If Earth were the only planet in the universe, you'd be astonished that we just happened to be exactly the right distance from the sun to be habitable. That would be absurdly improbable, but it becomes much less so when you realize that the Milky Way almost certainly has millions of planets. With so many possibilities, it's not surprising that at least one of them is friendly to life. And so it might be with the cosmos. What we think of the "universe" could very well be just one of trillions of universes on an indescribably vaster stage called multiverse. Each of those universes would have different laws and characteristics. Most of them are totally unlivable; like Earth, ours just happens to be one of the lucky ones. Still with me? Your thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadaBing Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 After reading a Gazillion posts here , i'll beleive anything... Si ( i mean yes ) Bada Bing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CondomKing Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 I won't speculate on what or who "manufactured" our universe but it is apparent that with so many millions of planets in our galaxy and so many millions of galaxies in the universe we are probably not the only "intelligent" life form in existence. It would seem to me that any life form out there with the ability to really explore the universe who would come across our spec of a planet teaming with life would be finding the ultimate needle in a haystack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 Hi, Interesting idea, but 'farfetched' probably describes it rather well. I have no doubt that there is other intelligent life in the universe, but have a bit of a problem with the idea of a super intelligent race creating universes. Still, it ain't that much different from the idea of a God creating Earth and the stars Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaad Posted December 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 "but have a bit of a problem with the idea of a super intelligent race creating universes." And that's exactly the (given) limit of our intelligence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yehtmae Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 ah, but if aliens created our universe, who created the one they live in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nervous_Dog Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 FAARRRKK Fiery Jack, their onto us, someone has leaer, they know you and I invented this whole thing! What do we do now???? DOG PS - OF course life is VERY "remarkably hospitable" OK - you can;t live under water, but to a fish, who has evolved to enjoy that condition, where as it can't live in the open air where you can, so - boh places "remarkabily Hospitable" to one species, deadly the other. Now if you answer, "Well in General conditions on earth are "Remarkably Hospitable" how about taking these three examples. 1 - Man - lives comfortably most places out of water, not real long under it 2 - Fish - ok - different species live in different tempature, but most fish suck when it comes to breathing on land 3- Micro-orgasims that live in hot acid 220 degree heat lave flutes 10 000 feet below water level on the ocean fllor. No one quite knows how the fark they live in a acid water super hat enviroment, but they do. So - 3 VERY different places. Also micro organism living under ice! Shit the universe is a harsh place, but live seems to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaad Posted December 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 "boh places "remarkabily Hospitable" to one species, deadly the other. " But the key is that it is hospitable to life of any form Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sukhumvit Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 Ah, but who invented the super intelligent beings? Another race of super intelligent beings? Or mebbee they crawled out of some super intelligent primordial slime and evolved? Hey, then again, so could have we! :offtopic: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saiphon Posted December 10, 2004 Report Share Posted December 10, 2004 Hasn't anybody read "The Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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