I read this notion in the media frequently, and before you write me off as a dimwit, I realize that on Earth today, the moon is a huge mediator regarding Earth's spinning and wobbling and it would totally suck if it decided to leave :) However, regarding the likelihood of life developing on...
I see what yer sayin now...I suppose we could be in good standing w/ the copernican principle if we could see our parent universe and find that it isn't much different from our own...and if we could see into our child universes and find them to also not be much different from our own...and...
There are plenty of black holes, ours would be nothing special...i don't think it would violate the copernican principle...rather cosmological natural selection explains our universe in an ecosystem of universes similar to humans not being central to life on earth, but rather just another mammal
I fully agree; there is no danger of a false positive...to find the answer you'll inevitably need to make reliable true predictions tho of course
Thats a good point...hadn't thought of that
True, but we could just arbitrarily change them all around in every way and see wut happens...anybody...
Well, if we can make predictions that turn out to be true, then we are on our way towards forming a better understanding...and as smolin has pointed out, if indeed we live in a multiverse where black holes make more universes, it is probable that we live in a universe that is fairly fine tuned...
Pondering the mysteries of the universe, I thought about how the big bang seemingly came from nothing, and how black holes seemingly send stuff to oblivion. Maybe these two go together I thought? I found out that an astrophysicist named Lee Smolin thought the same thing. I just read his book...