[Mormons and Evolution] 1/14/2006 09:40:06 AM
island, I disagree with you about when anthropic arguments might be useful. In the first place, I don't see the second law of thermodynamics as a fundamental law that demands to be satisfied, but instead as a by-product of natural evolution of our universe from a simple initial condition.
That might be true if the negative pressure component didn't increase in an expanding universe... but it does.
Moreover, I think we can be quite confident that carbon-based life forms contribute a completely negligible amount to the total entropy budget of the universe.
1) You don't know how common life in our universe is and you have no basis for which to conclude that it isn't biocentric because anthropic principle readily extends to every banded spiral galaxy that exists on the same evolutionary "plane" as us.
2) Intelligent life is by far the most energy-efficient means for isolating the release of enough energy to make real massive particles from vacuum energy. In at least one cosmological model, this directly affects the symmetry of the universe by driving expansion while holding the universe flat and stable in the process... which solves the flatness problem, the horizon problem the matter/antimatter asymmetry problem, the cosmological constant problem, the causality problem... eg... ALL of the anthropic "problems" are resolved by this model.
FYI: Other scientists have independently derived similar conclusions:
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/edit/archives/2004/09/30/2003204990
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Posted by island to Mormons and Evolution at 1/14/2006 09:40:06 AM
That might be true if the negative pressure component didn't increase in an expanding universe... but it does.
Moreover, I think we can be quite confident that carbon-based life forms contribute a completely negligible amount to the total entropy budget of the universe.
1) You don't know how common life in our universe is and you have no basis for which to conclude that it isn't biocentric because anthropic principle readily extends to every banded spiral galaxy that exists on the same evolutionary "plane" as us.
2) Intelligent life is by far the most energy-efficient means for isolating the release of enough energy to make real massive particles from vacuum energy. In at least one cosmological model, this directly affects the symmetry of the universe by driving expansion while holding the universe flat and stable in the process... which solves the flatness problem, the horizon problem the matter/antimatter asymmetry problem, the cosmological constant problem, the causality problem... eg... ALL of the anthropic "problems" are resolved by this model.
FYI: Other scientists have independently derived similar conclusions:
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/edit/archives/2004/09/30/2003204990
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Posted by island to Mormons and Evolution at 1/14/2006 09:40:06 AM
posted by Christian Y. Cardall at 9:40 AM
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