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Originally Posted by Xist
Everyone's favorite digital demon doesn't like Anton Petrov!
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Is that the whole quote? What was the prompt? Because is says nothing about the cheezy grin and side-to-side hand wave he always ends with.
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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary
In other words, if our universal constants (like the speed of light, the strong and weak nuclear forces, the electromagnetic force, the mass of subatomic particles, etc) were ever so slightly different even by a fraction of a percent then atomic matter, chemistry, stars, etc. would not be possible and therefore life would not be possible.
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You have your Strong Anthropic Principle and Weak Anthropic Principle. and Leibniz's --
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Best of all possible worlds
The phrase "the best of all possible worlds" was coined by the German polymath and Enlightenment philosopher Gottfried Leibniz in his 1710 work Essais de Théodicée sur la bonté de Dieu, la liberté de l'homme et l'origine du mal, more commonly known simply as the Theodicy. Wikipedia
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It's kind of like having an infinitely long conveyor belt. If someone is walking toward us on it but the conveyor belt is moving away faster than that person can walk, then they will never reach us.
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But.... Light knows where it's going from the get-go, and takes no time to get there.