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Here`s the point |
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If we consider the huge maze of possible universes |
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The vast majority will not have conditions hospitable to life |
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Or at least to anything remotely akin to life as we know it |
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For drastic changes in familiar physics |
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This is clear |
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If our universe didn`t conform to the rules it does |
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life, as we know it, would not exist |
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Even rather conservative changes to physics would interfere with the formation of stars |
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For example |
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Disrupting their ability to act as cosmic furnaces |
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That synthesize complex life-supporting atoms |
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Such as carbon and oxygen |
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That normally are spewed throughout the universe |
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By supernova explosions |
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In the light of the sensitive dependence of life on the details of physics |
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If we now ask, for instance |
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Why the forces and particles of nature have the particular properties we observe |
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A possible answer emerges |
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Across the entire gamut of possibilities |
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These features vary widely |
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Properties could be different |
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What`s special about the particular combination of particle and force properties we observe |
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Is that clearly they allow life to form |
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And life, intelligent life in particular |
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Is a prerequisite even to ask the question of why our universe |
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Has the properties it does |
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In plain language |
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Things are the way they are |
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Because if they weren`t |
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We wouldn`t be here to notice |
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If we weren`t here |
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There`d be no one to see |
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The lack of politics and factories |
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The gods at stake |
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The myopic view |
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Halts suspicion that it just might be true |
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Your sense of awe |
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Your sense of wonder |
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Remains intact in the face of it all |
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Perhaps in time |
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Someone will listen to this waste of breath |
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This lecture on nothing |
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If we weren`t here |
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There`d be no one to see |
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The lack of politics and factories |
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The gods at stake |
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The myopic view |
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Halts suspicion that it just might be true |
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Your sense of awe |
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Your sense of wonder |
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Remains intact in the face of it all |
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Perhaps in time |
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Someone will listen to this waste of breath |
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This lecture on nothing |
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If we weren`t here |
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There`d be no one to see |
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The lack of politics and factories |
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The gods at stake |
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The myopic view |
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Halts suspicion that it just might be true |
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Your sense of awe |
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Your sense of wonder |
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Remains intact in the face of it all |
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Perhaps in time |
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Someone will listen to this waste of breath |
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This lecture on nothing |
