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tamaralv:
And just think, if we were a mirofraction off, one way or the other, we wouldn't be here! His creation is truly AMAZING, the way everything works together so perfectly! You'll all have to forgive me. I get blown away by the "little" things from time to time.  ;) 

DougE6:

Yes, just the smallest microfraction difference and we would not be here.  For example, of the four fundamental forces of the universe, gravity is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (OK 1 million million million million million million) times weaker than the electomagnetic forces between atoms. This is a HUGE number and fantastically smaller force.  Gravity only can come into play when you have huge accretions of matter as it is so weak.  Why is this important? Lets say gravity was only 1 million million million million million times weaker rather than the above. Then the number of atoms to make a star would be 1 billion times less in this imaginary universe. Planet masses, including the earth would also have to be scaled down by a billion. gravity would crush everything, even insects would need incredibly thick legs. Galaxies would form far more quickly, stars would not be widely dispersed causing frequent collisions. heat would leak from stars far more quickly the stars would last a millions times shorter, about 10,000 years. No time whatsoever for the complex evolution God orchestrated.  (just 6 numbers Martin Rees)

Or how about the density of the universe, as from the stucture of the galaxies and dark matter. There is a certain density, called the critical density, which is the density which is just enough to stop the universe from expanding but not enough to cause it to collapse into itself.  The current value is about 30 perecent of critical density.  But if you extrapolate back into time, a 30%  critical density now translates into 99.9999999999999999 percent of critical density one second after the big bang!!!!!!! That is amazing close to the limit of 100% one part in a million billion more and the whole shebang would of collapsed.  If the density at one second would of been say 99.9% of critical at 1 second then the density now would be millions of times less.  The universe would of expanded to fast for galaxies to form, or stars, for that matter.  So even the smallest change in initial conditions would of resulted in a universe full of black holes instead of stars, or a tenuous gas filled universe instead  of stars and planets, A millionth of a millionth difference one way or the other would of doomed the universe from the start. (purose guided universe Haisch)

servias:
Its nuts how critical all this is!  In simpler terms I always think,  how much closer can we go towards the sun before we burn up, or farther away before we freeze.  What if a Day was 25 hours or 23 hours?  What if the earth did not tilt for our four seasons?  Crops need the seasons to provide food.  Winter and summer kind of bring a balance of the overall global climate and temperature to keep things in order.  All these things are too particular to just happen.  And like Doug points too many right things had to happen for creation to even occur properly. 
Who am I to complain if my heater is not keeping up!!!  ;D

cjwood:

--- Quote from: DanTheMan on January 01, 2011, 01:38:53 PM ---
Who am I to complain if my heater is not keeping up!!! 




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hahahahaha, hilarious dantheman!!!


claudia

tamaralv:
Has anyone seen the documentary "The Privledged Planet" or read the book? I found it on YouTube several months ago and spent part of yesturday watching it again.  It's worth looking at if you have some extra time and the interest. I thank you guys for your comments! It was Doug's post that drove me to YouTube looking for a way to understand what he'd just written! ;)

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