Or the \"Knot of Truths?\" (Endings)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Friday, June 19, 2009, 17:55 (5418 days ago) @ David Turell

Thanks for that link to Paul Davies interview. I found it most interesting. Particularly this bit: - "We can work out the information-processing capacity of the universe. It's finite ... and it comes out with a very big number, about 10^122 /// the significant thing is that in the past, the number was much smaller. When you go back to the time when the structure of the universe was being laid down ... the time of inflation, 10^-34 seconds, the bits that the universe would have contained was only about 10^20. So if we restrict our description of the laws of physics to have that accuracy ... one part in 10^20 ... then that starts to become significant." - Presumably when you go back to time zero there were absolutely zero bits! - What I'm inclined to dispute is the supposed "biofriendliness" of the universe. Perhaps it is just a matter of the universe being able to support increasing complexity because of its increased computing power, and life is just incidental to that wider process.

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GPJ