What is the anthropic principle?

[TechSyndicate]

Some dude going on about some analogy of a bank robber cracking a safe brought me here.

[francoisona]

Beautifully explained. Spent last 30mins reading 1 paragraph trying to understand . You nailed it down in 1min 46sec

[jimmymelonseed]

The other possibility is that the universe was designed explicitly for the existence of Humans by some intelligent power greater than all the energy and matter within it.

[hanicky]

thank you so much this helped me so immensely. I am so unbelievable thankful right now for this gracious giving of such a simple method. I am truly blessed and humbled by the fact that you would even consider sharing this exiting theory with such a small being such as me.

[thantus]

Imagine you and your friends are trapped in a room, and you have 3 dice with you, and this evil dude tells you to roll the 3 dice so that they all land on the number 1. You can't place them, you gotta roll them. If you don't roll 3 perfect 1s, the evil dude will shoot all of you down. This means you and your friends can only survive in the universe in which all 3 dice rolled 1s, which has a 1/216, or 0.46%, chance of happening. That's more or less what this video is saying, or rather the metaphor...

Btw, this example is an excerpt from and upcoming videogame that directly references the Anthropic Principle. The characters you play as only survive if you roll the dice as such, all based on RNG, so you just have to replay every time, across a "multiverse", to get it just right.

[jgx]

Where did you get the number “up to ten to the 500th power”?

[Becca_Lynn]

Came here from reading Craig Keener’s book “Miracles”. Very interesting and great explanation. Thanks! 😊

[PaulTheSkeptic]

Somewhere out there in the vast distance, there's a floating ball of pure energy and light talking to another floating ball of pure energy and light and it's saying "Did you know that if the parameters of our universe were changed only very slightly, the entire universe would be flooded with deadly matter and antimatter."

[DestinyLabMusic]

Or there is a God who created the universe. Creation is proof of a creator just like a painting is proof of a painter. You do not have to meet the painter to know this. It is self evident just like the design of all life is proof of a Designer. A person must be willingly ignorant to refuse to see this which means dumb on purpose.

[dgreenbird]

There's also the possibility that this is a total waste of time and you could think about this till the end of the conceptual time and you won't reach an answer, what does this info help any of you in real life?

[rorschach]

There's a very interesting book that explains this better. it starts with "In the beginning..."

[jamx]

Whatever generated the multiverse must be fine tuned as well.

[jaytamayo]

Forgive me, but I just didn't get it. Is it me, is it because I am sleepy or you just don't get us to listen? Thanks anyways. Will watch it for the 3rd time.

[nm-com]

well. physics is a description of nature. cosmology being part of physics, it is a description as well. nothing more than a description of how our measurements behave as we change the circumstances/properties of our detectors. now the anthropic principle is NOT about other unvierses. this is the major flaw made in such conclusions. it is about changing our description of nature. if we change the description, will it still describe our measurements?. turns out the description is already so detailed and consistent, that changing it, will have major differences in the overall result of the description. like moving a single card in a house of cards, it will cause the collapse. but this is just a proove how interconnected the theories (descriptions) are.

[ronaldderooij]

I really do not understand why people bother so much about the anthropic principle and finetuning. We are in this universe, because apparently this universe was fit for life. Now wether or not that is a coïncidence beyond belief is not relevant. We are here to ask the question. I mean, it is the same as a lottery winner. He/she got lucky, incredibly lucky, but they still exist, the lottery winners. So, life may be a lottery winner. Really it is not relevant if there are more universes or just one. That is pure speculation. If the Big Bang would have been slightly different, there would be no-one to ask the question. End of story.

[ghallums]

Easily explained. A perfect universe was created by a perfect being. God.

[dartskihutch]

10^500 is such a random stab in the dark... What exactly is this number based on besides a random guess of how many universes there are?

[daynevickers]

So the question is, "Why do we live in such a finely tuned universe?". The answer is simple. Because God knew what He was doing.... and why He was doing it.

[Car_Mo]

So according to the anthropic principle, several universes exist parallel to each other and we're lucky enough to live in one where life is possible.
Is there a principle that say universes could be existing one after the other (big bang > big crunch > big bang > big crunch .. and so on). As in; this Big Bang was a lucky one?

Of all the dimensions, time is the most humbling one ...

[TheNoerdy]

Why 10^500? That seems so small. What's the limit here?