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arivero
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A couple years ago it was typical to see in articles, and to hear in conferences, specially when discussing about the hierarchy or about meeting of the coupling constants at GUT scale, of some other examples of misleading coincidences. The most prolific example was the coincidence between the angular sizes of sun and moon. Once even I hear a joke on anthropicism along the line of "then you get Sun eclipses and then you develop a civilisation by discussing about them".
Does anyone knows who which paper was the first one using the Moon/Sun example? I thing I have seen the example discussed even in some blogs.
It is a bit disturbing that nobody hearing these conferences raised the objection, or the "interesting point", that the coincidence of angular sizes of Sun and Moon implies (because of similar densities) tidal forces of the same order of magnitude.
Does anyone knows who which paper was the first one using the Moon/Sun example? I thing I have seen the example discussed even in some blogs.
It is a bit disturbing that nobody hearing these conferences raised the objection, or the "interesting point", that the coincidence of angular sizes of Sun and Moon implies (because of similar densities) tidal forces of the same order of magnitude.