Scott Tremaine, “Astrophysical Wonders” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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The Anthropic Principle of the Universe
This is like an evolutionary er pilter to somenright? We're here because we had, it's almost like an anthropic principle thing. I i'd prefer to think of it not so much as anthropic as what some physicists called self organized criticality. So if the sun didn't turn into a red giant, presumably, what would an as you'd get rid of mercury in 20 or 30 billion years,. If you went for a thousand billion years, you might get rid of something else. That is just gradually, extremely slowly, settling down to a more and more stable state until eventually only one planet's left.
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