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