And, just to add a bit of fun into the mix.... ... there are a group of physicists, some quite renouned in their field, who, in simple terms, have figured that... given the big bang theory... the big bang had to happen EXACTLY as it did in order for 'life' to be. If there was one iota of a variation in how it all occurred... the universe as we know it would not be here... it would have expanded so fast as to blow itself apart... or, had it not expanded as fast as it did, it would have collasped in on itself.
There are fluctuations out there which physicists cannot explain... some parts of the universe expand more quickly than others... and this makes no sense to physicists... it should all expand 'uniformily.' The Inflation Theory, if I understand it all to some degree at least, explains these 'fluctuations.' (Chrome?)
Anyway... this whole "it had to happen EXACTLY this way for us to be here to observe it all" (for really, if no one is here to observe it all, what good is it? Has NO meaning) is called The Anthropic Principle
... there are a group of physicists, some quite renouned in their field, who, in simple terms, have figured that... given the big bang theory... the big bang had to happen EXACTLY as it did in order for 'life' to be. If there was one iota of a variation in how it all occurred... the universe as we know it would not be here... it would have expanded so fast as to blow itself apart... or, had it not expanded as fast as it did, it would have collasped in on itself.
