From: Nick Tarleton (nickptar@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jan 24 2008 - 06:17:42 MST
On Jan 23, 2008 8:51 PM, Matt Mahoney <matmahoney@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Other laws of physics could still support observers in our reference
> > class (whatever that class is). Thus, it still makes sense to ask "why
> > these laws and not some others?" For instance, if simpler laws are
> > more likely to be observed, why are there mu/tau leptons and
> > strange/charm/bottom/top quarks?
>
> Why not?
They add complexity to the laws.
> Most likely there are many sets of laws of physics that would result in life.
> Why does space have 3 dimensions?
Maybe this is why: http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/dimensions.html
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