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Scientific paper
Jun 1978
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1978scis...18....6d&link_type=abstract
The Sciences, vol. 18, May-June 1978, p. 6-10.
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Cosmology, Universe, Astronomical Models, Chronology, Stellar Evolution
Scientific paper
The basic structure of the universe is examined from an 'anthropic' standpoint. In other words, if the natural laws of the cosmos were radically different, we would not be here to observe them. Attention is given to the observation that the gravitational attraction between the constituent parts of an atom is 10 to the 40th times the electrical attraction. This is a number far larger than those which are usually generated by other physical systems. Curiously, the number appears in yet another basic relationship, namely the age of the universe measured in the smallest unit of time which has a natural significance (the time light takes to traverse the nucleus of an atom). The square of this number, 10 to the 80th, represents the number of atoms in the universe. If one assumes that these relationships are not coincidental, it can be argued that the existence of intelligent life, without which there would be no understanding of the relationships, is not coincidental, either; or at least, that intelligent life can exist only within narrowly defined cosmic parameters.
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