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JohnW



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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 12 2015,12:00   

Quote (dazz @ Mar. 12 2015,06:03)
So if the laws of physics are so precisely "dialed in" that the slightest change in the fundamental constants or the laws themselves would have made the universe life prohibiting...

We can stop right there, until this has been established as true.

We don't know what range of properties the fundamental laws can have.

We don't know the extent to which they are inter-related.

We don't know what all other universes with different properties would be like.

Also: Why is life such an important property of a universe (rather than, say, spiral galaxies or dark matter)?  There's no reason to think any of the observed properties of our universe would be exactly the same if the constants were different.  Does this mean the universe is fine-tuned to produce the photoelectric effect?

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