Something looks fishy about the way our universe is "uncannily fit for life". There seems to be nothing self-contradictory about the idea that its physical constants and other fundamental features — such as the amount of dark matter — could have been different. Yet relatively miniscule differences in any of these values would have produced a physical reality incompatible with the complex chemical processes that sustain life. In The Goldilocks Enigma, Paul Davies embarks on a comprehensive examination of current theories as to why the universe is so finely tuned, so astonishingly "just right".
To prepare us, he starts with a lively account of recent developments in cosmological theory and fundamental physics. The first few chapters get us up to speed with such concepts as the flatness of space, the inflation (as opposed to mere expansion) of the universe, string theory, M-theory, and the possible effects of quantum events on the cosmological macrostructure of clustered galaxies. Nice.
One important concept is the possibility that universes such as ours — really only "pocket universes" — are being formed continually and eternally, creating an incomprehensibly vast, multiple landscape of wildly varying universes. (This grand multiverse is a quite different concept from the "many worlds" interpretation of quantum theory, which Davies also discusses.)
Davies considers a raft of answers to the book's central question, but concludes that none is truly satisfying. He states that he is resigned to criticism from religious thinkers for his unwillingness to interpret the data as evidence of intelligent design. Though such interpretations have psychological appeal, he believes that they offer no explanatory advance. At the same time, he expects hard-headed physicists to deplore his sympathy for such mystical-sounding theories as that the Universe's development is shaped by a fundamental life-creating principle, or that it somehow causes itself in a closed, self-consistent loop from future to past and back again (see 'Life, the Universe and Everything', Cosmos Issue 14, p46).
Given this multitude of brain-wrangling theories and conjectures, Davies tells the whole story in a clear, well-paced manner that rivets the attention while boggling the mind.
What a ripper
Many physicists have imagined life eventually coming to an end in an eternally expanding universe, as all useful energy is slowly dissipated. Less common is the idea of collapse to a big crunch. Davies explains an even more dramatic possibility: the "big rip".
On this model, the rate of expansion accelerates catastrophically —
rising towards infinity — and even atoms of matter are ripped asunder. Bleak.
The Goldilocks Enigma
There's no enigma in understanding of the universe.
When we understand the Creation process there'll be no enigma.
Think of the universe in terms of dual polarities: The intangible 0-Time and the tangible in terms of 01, hence 01 dominate the mathematical equation for the Theory Of Everything. Unifying all the forces of the universe into 01 system, computerization of the 0 and the 1, Information System or I.S.
always yes and no - positive and negative = Neutral and self Creation.
Here you have the literal equation of I.S. and the mathematical equation pf the 01 (thought) which in itself an interaction between bits of information to be what I.S.
The whole universe IS Information System.
Einstein said:
"Everything must be very simple but... not any simpler"!!
IT CAN NOT BE ANY SIMPLER... 01 I.S.
Goldilocks IS an enigma
However, it will be very interesting when "visitor" submits his further evidence of there being none. It is really hard to think of the universe in dual polarities in the terms he expressed. In fact, it is hard to even think in those terms of 0 and 01. Must have a failed I.S.
Ed, A bit of a skeptic, I suppose.