the anthropic principle's main features... a the universe could have been a million different other ways because none of those other variations would have allowed life to develop it is assumed that the universe is especially tuned for life b life of earth is the only life anywhere in the universe c 65 000 000 million years ago, from amongst the dinosaurs, one species, man shaped, attained the ability to perpetuate independent of earth d mankind is about to attain the same capacity e in 30 000 000 years a new class of being will give rise to a species, man shaped, and they will join the dinosaur and mammal classes of being evolving independently of earth f this process, of new classes of beings, man shaped, continues until the sun becomes too unstable, in about 5000 000 000 years g from the last class of beings to evolve the essence of life, one times one, will emerge the previous sentence, tucked away half way down a page of writing being handed out in a random fashion from a street corner, deserves a bolder introduction into our consciousness getting there and being assimilated is what really matters though it is a notion that would be ascribed to a purely theoretical model of ethical behaviour it is a breath of fresh air in a world full of unwieldy ideas it is the best news we have ever had far beyond what anyone had dared hope for and inestimably more than fair minded person would have expected so much more than we deserve it produces a feeling of shame and yet it seems it is to be our destiny to experience ever-increasing values of love/life now we see love... it is unable to put itself before others nor does it stop there so unusual in feature and manner will the lover be that none shall know neither you nor me it doesn't seem possible that a being with these abilities and a character like this could exist it is stunning i am speechless *** men! women's feel for life seems greater than ours, which it is, but soon the wars will have stopped and ordinary men will turn their attention to love too then a wave of change will roll around this world the likes of which hasn't been seen for 65 000 000 years not long to go not long now *** two different things cannot occupy the same place at the same time e.g. the moon can't be made of both cheese and rock or things with similar characteristics can mix whereas things that are dissimilar can't e.g. chalk and clay can mix but water and mercury can't and that peace, pleasure and truth are akin and are to be found in the same place to the degree there is an absence of war pain and lies *** "by nature i am peacefully inclined and reject all doubtful adventures but a theoretical interpretation had to be found at all costs..." max planck planck's discovery of the universal quantum of action (the least thing that can happen) will be 100 years old in the year 2000. nothing would befit that evolutionary discovery more than to celebrate its centenary with a gesture to peace of evolutionary proportions *** genetic theory's scope encompasses the possibility that our descendants will generate from their genes all those previous unique combinations, you and i. that will be the constituent parts of theirs however those of us whose genes do not survive until then will have become actual people who exist in theory only when we consider that before conception there was only one combination of genes that could and did result in us becoming the individuals that we are and in view of the fact that every individual's unique genetic combination becomes part of the blueprint from which all newly conceived babies must draw their uniqueness, we can muse over the circumstance that where successive progeny become two children parents our potential for existence is greater after death than before birth *** planck's postulate that energy is not given off in a continuous stream, on the contrary, it can only be given off in fixed, discreet, packets or bundles, that he called quanta, and that quanta grow larger as the wavelength grow smaller approximately doubling and halving *** axiom 1 that all things comply with planck's postulate of a size to numerical ratio we can see this with mountains, plants, clouds, trees, fish, insects, rivers, people etc. it also applies to things we can't see... suns, galaxies, wavelengths, micro-organisms etc. it also seems to apply to apply to abstract form as exemplified by the apparently indefinitely large numerical size of pi *** there is a mathematical theory, its origins in quantum theory, that indicates that the universe is "flashing on and off - coming into and going out of existence - millions of times every second" this theory finds support through bell's theorem of interconnectedness which demonstrates that the underlying character of reality must have faster-than-light connections this means that it is onlyreality,notevents, that have superluminal connections time-travel machines and quantum leaps remain science fiction while the universe is "off" there is a real value off zero and because zero doesn't need a prior cause we may have overcome the greatest mystery of all... how did things get here? *** classical mechanics that all things can vary in a continuous manner so that by throwing a marble at the moon a tiny but calculable shift occurs in the moons motion and that every successive marble thrown will cause a similar shift until a trillion marbles later an observable shift is noticed quantum mechanics there is a minimum energy exchange that can occur in nature so that no shift can occur until the trillionth marble has been thrown at which time sufficient energy has accumulated to cause a shift this means that if the earth were to undergo a change of orbit we wouldn't know until it happened page 8 was handed out in exeter high street in 1994