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[Doc Dutch]

Thanks for chiming in chaps. I will get back to you Dutch, I have to get sidetracked on something else

No worries, Cypress. Good thread and excellent topic.

[Cypress]

Agreed on probability. Agreed, we're the only known Universe and all else, be it gods, supernatural, multiple dimensions, planes of existence and multiverses are just speculations.

Not sure what you mean "repeated coincidences". There's no life found anywhere else in our own Solar System or the Universe. It's speculation (probability theory again) that there is other life, but ZERO evidence of it. Just speculation.

Repeated coincidences = the numerous physical and cosmological constants that converged on very specific values allowing matter, planets, and organic life to exist.

Your point of view certainly is valid. Some physicists think the convergence of the universal constants is nothing to worry about. Others think these coincidences are pointing to some deep symmetry we don't understand yet.

Those in the “don't worry about it” camp take a strict statistical view that says we have an after-the-fact probability of unity, so we shouldn’t be surprised.

Furthermore, we can infer nothing about the “before-the-fact” probability. There was a Big Bang, and life-giving parameters were chosen—end of story.

The "let's worry about it" camp is still bothered by the low before-the-fact probability of getting these parameters, and they resolve the dilemma by appealing to a multiverse. If there are many Universes, all with different properties, most will be sterile, but there’ll be some fertile ones, and we’re obviously in one of them. This viewpoint has gained support from two recent developments: Modern Inflation theories can generate a multiverse, and both Inflation and String Theory can generate Universes with different laws of physics.

- Mark Whittle, astronomer