{"id":654,"date":"2016-06-24T14:12:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T14:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/?p=654"},"modified":"2017-10-31T15:39:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T15:39:16","slug":"appendix-z48-the-same-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/?p=654","title":{"rendered":"APPENDIX Z48: \u201cThe Same Recipe\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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APPENDIX Z48:<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\u201cThe Same Recipe\u201d<\/div>\n
***<\/div>\n
on-point: Q4P \/ Cosmic T<\/span>raction<\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cA universe hospitable to life\u2014what we might call
\n a\n <\/div>\n
biophilic universe\u2014has to be very special in many
\n ways.\n <\/div>\n
The prer<\/span>equisites for any
\n life\u2014long-live stable stars, a\n <\/div>\n
periodic table of atoms with complex chemistry<\/span>, and so\n <\/div>\n
on\u2014are sensitive to physical laws and could not
\n have\n <\/div>\n
emerged from a Big Bang with a r<\/span>ecipe that was even\n <\/div>\n
slightly differ<\/span>ent. Many
\n recipes would lead to stillborn\n <\/div>\n
universes with no atoms, no chemistry<\/span>, and no planets; or\n <\/div>\n
to universes too short lived or too empty to allow
\n anything\n <\/div>\n
to evolve beyond sterile uniformity<\/span>. This distinctive and\n <\/div>\n
special-seeming recipe seems to me a fundamental\n <\/div>\n
mystery that should not be brushed aside merely as
\n a\n <\/div>\n
brute fact.\u2019\u201d (p. xvi)<\/div>\n
on-point: Q4P \/ Extraordinariation<\/span>\n <\/div>\n
\u201cLikewise, we should surely pr<\/span>obe deeper<\/span>, and ask why\n <\/div>\n
a unique recipe for the physical world should
\n permit\n <\/div>\n
consequences as interesting as those we see ar<\/span>ound\n <\/div>\n
us.\u201d\u2026(p. 163)<\/div>\n
*** Cosmologist Martin Rees, Our Cosmic Habitat<\/span>. New Jersey: Princeton University <\/span><\/div>\n
Press. 2001. pp xvi, 163<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

APPENDIX Z48: \u201cThe Same Recipe\u201d *** on-point: Q4P \/ Cosmic Traction \u201cA universe hospitable to life\u2014what we might call a biophilic universe\u2014has to be very special in many ways. The prerequisites for any life\u2014long-live stable stars, a periodic table of atoms with complex chemistry, and so on\u2014are sensitive to physical laws and could not have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}