Quote from vhehn:
i followed this exact debate on other threads where stu kicked your ass and proved you wrong.
Wow - I better concede to such a powerful argument.
Perhaps you would like to cite it? If I recall it was not Stu but some other poster who said he said he sent a letter to Susskind and he said the author complemented him on his grasp of the issues. He offered that as vindication.
But, when questioned the poster did not even say that he addressed the issue we were discussing.
by the way from the same physics world article cited above.
So Weinberg set out to see if any bigger value would prevent life. The answer, it turned out, did not have anything to do with molecular chemistry or the stability of the solar system. Weinberg found that if L were just an order of magnitude bigger than 10-120, no galaxies, stars or planets would have formed. His anthropic arguments not only provided a limit on L, they also give some idea of its expected value. In 1992 he wrote, "Thus if such a cosmological constant is confirmed by observation, it will be reasonable to infer that our own existence plays an important role in explaining why the universe is the way it is." Even sceptics had to take notice, therefore, when recent astrophysical observations indicated that L is, in fact, non-zero and has just about the value Weinberg predicted.
To avoid any intelligent-design connotations, however, there is still one missing ingredient: the "multiverse" or, as Susskind likes to call it, the "megaverse". According to a popular but still controversial version of "cosmic inflation", due to Andre Linde and others, there is not just one Big Bang but a whole series of bubble universes that are continuously being created. If we combine this with M-theory, every kind of universe permitted by the landscape will eventually come into existence. This is called the "populated landscape".
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see that based on a nobel prize winners theory - to avoid intelligent design connotations you must add the idea of trillions and trillions of universes.
