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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jason Resch via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Another very unusual number 1/137<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Strangely almost every dimensionless constant, particle mass, even the dimensionality of space time, happens to falls in a narrow of range, beyond which life as we know it would have no chance in this universe. I write about all of these known coincidences here:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://alwaysasking.com/is-the-universe-fine-tuned/">https://alwaysasking.com/is-the-universe-fine-tuned/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jason<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 2:58 PM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Life as we know it would not exist without this highly unusual number<br>By Paul Sutter published 24 March 2022<br><br><<a href="https://www.space.com/fine-structure-constant-universe-mystery" target="_blank">https://www.space.com/fine-structure-constant-universe-mystery</a>><br><br>Quotes:<br>…---------<br><br>Also see: <<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-structure_constant" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-structure_constant</a>><br><br>BillK<br>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat" target="_blank">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cool article Jason, thanks. Very well written. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>As soon as we are backed into the corner of “…incredible luck, divine intervention, or otherwise…” we can be confident the answer is otherwise. The constants you mention must be somehow locked to each other for instance, or there is some fundamental not-understood reason why they must be the value they are. There are still scientific mysteries we don’t understand, and there are still mathematical mysteries.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thru all this, we keep getting back to that notion that our existence, our perception, our everything is a simulation of some kind. Of course that doesn’t answer the obvious questions: who wrote it, running on what, etc. But it would kinda explain why there are still these kinds of mysteries, such as why the fine structure constant and the way gravity works seem to be in perfect harmony.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>That we got this far down here into history and still don’t know these things really pisses me off.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></body></html>