- SUMMATIONS
- THE POSSIBILITY OF REVELATION
- THE HIDDEN NATURE OF THE CREATOR
- THE PROVIDENT REALITY AND THE EQUALITY OF RAIN
- FREE MINDS AND FREE WILL
- AN ORDERED UNIVERSE--MADE TO ORDER?
- (A) PURPOSE FOR THE UNIVERSE
- COMMONALITIES
- VOICES AND PRESENCES
- SPECIAL CLAIMS, SPECIFIC EVIDENCE
- DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO
- ARROGANCE AND FAITH
- IMPLICATIONS AND SUGGESTIVE CLUES
- SOCIAL RELATIVISM ISN'T RELEVANT, PART TWO
- SOCIAL RELATIVISM ISN'T RELEVANT, PART ONE
- SOCIOBIOLOGY'S SHORTCOMINGS, PART TWO
- SOCIOBIOLOGY'S SHORTCOMINGS, PART ONE
- DODGING IMPLICATIONS
- EXISTENTIAL CRISIS IN EXISTENCE
- THE PROBLEM OF VALUES
- THE PROBLEM OF EVIL (PROLOGUE)
- TORNADO IN JUNK SCIENCE
- CHOOSING AMONG THE EXPLANATIONS
- EXPLANATION SIX: SOME IMPLICATIONS
- EXPLANATION SIX: SOMEONE ELSE'S LAB EXPERIMENT
- EXPLANATION SIX: THINKING CREATIVELY: APPROACHES AND LIMITS
- EXPLANATION SIX: THINKING CREATIVELY OR REWINDING THE WATCHMAKER
- EXPLANATION FIVE: SMOLIN'S SELECTION
- EXPLANATION FOUR: ENSEMBLES: AN OVERVIEW
- EXPLANATION FOUR: UNIVERSALITY IN MANY-WORLDS: DOES EVERYTHING POSSIBLE EXIST...SOMEWHERE?
- EXPLANATION FOUR: UNIVERSALITY IN MANY-WORLDS: HAVING YOUR CAKE AND EATING IT TOO.
- EXPLANATION FOUR: UNIVERSALITY IN MANY-WORLDS: INTERPRETING THEIMPOSSIBLE
- EXPLANATION FOUR: UNIVERSALITY IN MANY-WORLDS: PROLOGUE (IMPOSSIBLE BUT TRUE)
- EXPLANATION FOUR: UNIVERSALITY IN TIME: DEJA VIEW
- EXPLANATION FOUR: UNIVERSALITY IN SPACE: BEYOND THE FIELDS WE KNOW
- EXPLANATION FOUR: UNIVERSES ENSEMBLE! (Or--Multiple Choice!)
- EXPLANATION THREE: NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF...CREATION?
- EXPLANATION TWO: HIGH PROBABILITY---POSSIBLY
- EXPLANATION ONE: TAKE A CHANCE
- SIX COINCIDENCE CAUSES
- THE PHILOSOPHER'S FIRING SQUAD
- COINCIDENCE TWELVE: QUANTUM OF SCIENCE or SOMETIMES BOHR-ING IS GOOD
- COINCIDENCE ELEVEN: EXPANDING CONSTANTLY, PART TWO
- COINCIDENCE ELEVEN: EXPANDING CONSTANTLY, PART ONE
- COINCIDENCE TEN: A FINE LINE, or THE ALPHA FAIL
- OBJECTION TWO: THE PUDDLE IN THE DESERT
- COINCIDENCE NINE: ANTIMATTER ANGST AND ANOMALIES
- COINCIDENCE EIGHT: Neutron-Proton Mass Differences, or Sometimes it doesn't Pay to be Neutral
- OBJECTION ONE: The Size of the Universe
- COINCIDENCE SEVEN--You'll Get a Charge Out of This.
- COINCIDENCE SIX: 1/1836 IS YOUR LUCKY NUMBER.
- SETUP FOR COINCIDENCE SIX AND SEVEN
- PAUSE FOR REFLECTION: WAP, SAP, FAP, PAP And CRAP
- COINCIDENCE FIVE, Page 2: HIGHER DIMENSION DILEMMA
- COINCIDENCE FIVE, Page One: TWO-DIMENSIONAL CHARACTERS
- COINCIDENCE FOUR: HOW STRONG A CASE?
- A WEAK CASE FOR A WEAKLESS UNIVERSE
- COINCIDENCE THREE (A Weak Grasp of Timing)
- COINCIDENCE TWO, Page Four (Made Perfect in Weakness)
- COINCIDENCE TWO, Page 3 (Cooking a Supernova)
- COINCIDENCE TWO, Page Two (the Ghostly Particles)
- COINCIDENCE TWO, Page One (The Setup)
- COINCIDENCE ONE, Page Seven (Qualifications and Updates)
- COINCIDENCE ONE, Page Six (Eliminating Aliens)
- COINCIDENCE ONE, Page 5 (Goldilocks and the Just-Right Resonances)
- COINCIDENCE ONE, Page 4 (Remarkable Resonances)
- COINCIDENCE ONE, PAGE 3 (The Briefness of Beryllium)
- COINCIDENCE ONE, Page 2
- COINCIDENCE ONE, Page 1
- INTRODUCTION (EVOLUTION), Page 3
- INTRODUCTION (GROUND RULES), Page 2
- INTRODUCTION , Page 1
EXPLANATION FOUR: UNIVERSALITY IN MANY-WORLDS: PROLOGUE (IMPOSSIBLE BUT TRUE)
alschroeder on July 20, 2014
Continuing down the list of six possible explanations for the “anthropic” coincidences in nature which allow intelligent life to evolve…largely inspired and derived from George F.R. Ellis' brilliant brief book, BEFORE THE BEGINNING. He is NOT responsible, though, for the liberties I've taken with his logic or how I've chosen to illustrate it. To many of you this is old hat, of course. But I have to assume many of you don't know of this– and I suspect many of you who DO know of this have lived with this so long that you've lost your sense of wonder about it. Unless you understand this, you'll not understand why many-worlds, to many scientists, seemed a reasonable interpretation. Next time: INTERPRETING THE IMPOSSIBLE.
KimLuster at 11:18AM, July 20, 2014
Yaaaayyy! The two-slit experiment and its various 'explanations' always perk my interest (as if it wasn't already perked with this comic)