Re: Meaning of "fine-tuning"

From: george murphy (gmurphy@raex.com)
Date: Tue Oct 24 2000 - 15:08:24 EDT

  • Next message: glenn morton: "RE: Meaning of "fine-tuning""

    george murphy wrote:

    > Moorad Alexanian wrote:
    >
    > > I believe that when you say that the boundary conditions have to be set in,
    > > you are already assuming that there is a deterministic (mathematical)
    > > equation that determines the future evolution of the whole thing. I contest
    > > that. I think God has access to the whole of spacetime, not only time. All
    > > of us are worldlines to God. He sees the future because He saw us do it
    > > already. I think it is rather difficult to know how God interacts with
    > > nature, especially since He sustains the whole thing. I think that
    > > irreversibility in the universe is a consequence of the Fall.
    >
    > So back in One Billion B.C. heat sometimes flowed spontaneously from hot
    > a hot region to a cold one?
    >

            Of course! What I meant was, "So back in One Billion B.C. heat sometimes
    flowed spontaneously from a cold region to a hot one?" Sorry about that.
                                                                                George
    Murphy



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Oct 24 2000 - 15:06:03 EDT