RE: Nature Article

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Aug 15 2002 - 00:33:30 MDT


At 03:29 PM 8/15/02 +0930, Emlyn wrote:

>1 - "As things stand, other galaxies will eventually disappear as they zoom
>away from us ***faster than the speed of light***."
>
>How does that work?

Space itself can expand faster than light propagates *through* space.

>2 - I don't grok the argument that the Anthropic Principle does not apply.

I don't think they understand the Anthropic Principle; they seem to think
it requires life-conducive states to be frequent or even dominant in the
megaverse. I don't believe that follows.

Damien Broderick



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