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Article #1302Re: DAMN, THAT'S COOL! (Help a fellow geek)
From: ca314159
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1997 00:00
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William R. Penrose wrote: > > In article <32F60788.7110@lancnews.infi.net> John <jbgrosh@lancnews.infi.net> writes: > > >I think its VERY DAMN COOL, > >how large the known universe is, > >how small neutrinos are, > >how really in between we are. > >John > > Good point. If we were the size of neutrinos, we'd never meet anyone else, at > least not for eons. If we were bigger than a few solar masses, we'd collapse > into black holes. > > It is also neat, and very mysterious, how the existence of the Universe > depends on the precise values of a few fundamental constants. Diddle > some of these constants even in the nth decimal place (where n is a number > I've forgotten), and all our atoms fall apart. > > Accident or design? (Bait for the metaphysics types that haunt this group.) > Is there a conservation law for scale ?
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