Lecture On Nothing - Mt.

Here's the point

If we consider the huge maze of possible universes

The vast majority will not have conditions hospitable to life

Or at least to anything remotely akin to life as we know it

For drastic changes in familiar physics

This is clear

If our universe didn't conform to the rules it does

Life as we know it would not exist

Even rather conservative changes to physics would interfere with the formation of stars

For example

Disrupting their ability to act as cosmic furnaces

That synthesize complex life-supporting atoms

Such as carbon and oxygen

That normally are spewed throughout the universe

By supernova explosions

In the light of the sensitive dependence of life on the details of physics

If we now ask for instance

Why the forces and particles of nature have the particular properties we observe

A possible answer emerges

Across the entire gamut of possibilities

These features vary widely

Properties could be different

What's special about the particular combination of particle and force properties we observe

Is that clearly they allow life to form

And life intelligent life in particular

Is a prerequisite even to ask the question of why our universe

Has the properties it does

In plain language

Things are the way they are

Because if they weren't

We wouldnt be here to notice

If we weren't here

There'd be no one to see

The lack of politics and factories

The gods at stake

The myopic view

Halts suspicion that it just might be true

Your sense of awe

Your sense of wonder

Remains intact in the face of it all

Perhaps in time

Someone will listen to this waste of breath

This lecture on nothing

If we weren't here

There'd be no one to see

The lack of politics and factories

The gods at stake

The myopic view

Halts suspicion that it just might be true

Your sense of awe

Your sense of wonder

Remains intact in the face of it all

Perhaps in time

Someone will listen to this waste of breath

This lecture on nothing

If we weren't here

There'd be no one to see

The lack of politics and factories

The gods at stake

The myopic view

Halts suspicion that it just might be true

Your sense of awe

Your sense of wonder

Remains intact in the face of it all

Perhaps in time

Someone will listen to this waste of breath

This lecture on nothing