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Thu, 08 Mar 2007

This doesn't strike me as either new or original: his ideas seem to be little more than the anthropic principle on steroids.

Dr. Robert Lanza, famous for his stem cell and cloning research, has come up with some ideas he believes will lead to a unified theory of the universe. It's all in the biology, he says. Wired News interview by Aaron Rowe.

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On 3/9/2007 06:31:33
island wrote

It's an outright validation of John Wheeler, and most recently, Paul Davies, common interpretation of the anthropic physics. His point about creationists hijacking *some* evidence isn't just correct, this valid evidence is simply dismissed out of hand by "neodarwinians", (and others), who are understanably leery from the insessant pressure from fanatics, (and a fear of geocentrism), but they are as wrong as they are willifully ignorant about this... The cosmological evidence for a strong anthropic connection to the forces is a hell of a lot stronger than the speculative cutting-edge theories that are necessary to bring the significance of the evidence into question. These theories are okay to use against the equally non-evidenced "inferrences" of fanatics, but not against the physics mechanisms that define of the observed universe.

On 3/9/2007 09:03:14
Dave H wrote

Huh?

The anthropic principle looks (to me, anyway) a lot like what the Discordians refer to as the "23 Enigma". The short explanation - the harder you look for something, the more likely you are to find it. Tie this in with Heisenburg's Uncertainty Principle and you get the Quixotic mess that is the current start of cosmology. Thanks for the comment and Be well, Dave H.

On 3/9/2007 10:39:19
island wrote

With the AP it's more like... the harder that you try to ignore it, the more it won't go away. Which is why string theorists are still forced to use it, even though they hate it too. It's the closest thing to a structure principle that we have for defining the universe from first principles, but unlike most attempted definitions, Wheeler's interpretation is a complete cosmological principle, whereas string theorists abuse the idea strictly as a "selection effect". What a joke, that's like saying that th is evidence for determinism is evidence for uncertainty... ;)

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