Comments
kenlasalle t1_jcviu19 wrote
That's true. It's slightly longer than "brief."
TechnologicalDarkage t1_jcvl703 wrote
Evolution requires a population with heredity and selection pressures. I guess I don’t know what Hertog is talking about.
rangeDSP t1_jcvn72j wrote
> “The problem for Hawking was his struggle to understand how the universe could have created conditions so perfectly hospitable to life,” says Hertog, a cosmologist currently based at KU Leuven University in Belgium.
Didn't he "solve" that question by invoking the anthropic principle? As per the original book, if we apply strong anthropic principle, the universe is perfectly hospitable precisely because we are here to observe it, if it was not perfect, there wouldn't be an observer.
Guess I'll have to read the new book when it comes out...
ZealousidealClub4119 OP t1_jcvoi9g wrote
The piece implies Hawking and Hertog rethought the relationship between scientific theory and reality along the lines of theories are emergent from the evolving nature of reality.
Yes, I realise that previous sentence is a nebulous string of profound sounding buzzwords. I'm interested to see what H & H have come up with.
Looking forward to the book.
chaogomu t1_jcvqr8n wrote
I forget who first said it, From the water's perspective it's a pothole is perfectly shaped to hold it. It exactly contours to the shape of the water, so must have been created for that water.
Now, we know that this is a backwards way to look at things. So why do we look at the universe that way?
mikebug t1_jcvzwmb wrote
just wondering - can we show that the passage of time has always been consistent?
ZealousidealClub4119 OP t1_jcw1a0g wrote
No, because it isn't.
We can currently detect time dilation due to different strengths of gravitational field experienced by two 'atomic clocks', separated by a vertical distance of one metre.
ozamataz_b t1_jcw5g0l wrote
“If you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!" - Douglas Adams
chaogomu t1_jcw5pct wrote
Thanks. That has been bugging me for the last hour.
ZealousidealClub4119 OP t1_jcx4o7a wrote
Where is that from? Is it Last Chance to See?
[deleted] t1_jcxlvo3 wrote
[deleted] t1_jcy6af0 wrote
[removed]
[deleted] t1_jcviqo8 wrote
[removed]