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The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life? QUOTES

The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life? QUOTES

1 " A really big question is why the universe is fit for life; it looks like it has been ‘fixed up’. "

― Paul C.W. Davies , The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life?

2 " Can a truly absurd universe so convincingly mimic a meaningful one? "

― Paul C.W. Davies , The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life?

3 " One of the confusions surrounding the Intelligent Design movement’s propaganda is a failure to distinguish between the fact of evolution and the mechanism of evolution. "

― Paul C.W. Davies , The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life?

4 " Since the multiverse argument is often invoked as a way to abolish the need for divine providence, it is ironic that it provides the best scientific argument yet for the existence of a god! "

― Paul C.W. Davies , The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life?

5 " Since the multiverse argument is often invoked as a way to abolish the need for divine providence, it is ironic that it provides the best scientific argument yet for the existence of a god! Clearly, "

― Paul C.W. Davies , The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life?

6 " At the end of inflation, the intense energy released would have heated the universe to around a thousand trillion trillion degrees—more than sufficient to create all 1050 tons of matter in the observable universe. "

― Paul C.W. Davies , The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life?

7 " However, the answer can be inferred from the WMAP data, by measuring the sizes of the temperature fluctuations—the hot and cold (light and dark) splotches in Figure 3 ([>]). Before WMAP was launched, theorists had already worked out how big the physical sizes of the strongest fluctuations should be. Converting that into apparent angular size in the sky depends on the geometry of space: if the universe is positively curved, it would make the angles appear larger, while negative curvature would make them smaller. If the universe is geometrically flat (that is, has Euclidean geometry), the angular size of the strongest hot and cold fluctuations should be about 1° across. The results that flowed back from the satellite were definitive.14 The fluctuations were very close to 1° in size, a result confirmed by ground-based and balloon-based experiments. Cosmologists then declared that to within observational accuracy of about 2 percent, space is flat.15 "

― Paul C.W. Davies , The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life?