Quote from bigarrow:
What if god is gravity, no more no less.
Hawking pretty much covers this idea in his paper with hartle...
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/hep-th/pdf/0602/0602091v2.pdf
which discusses the fine tuning of our universe and how it can be explained.
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In fact if one does adopt a bottom-up approach to cosmology, one is immediately led to an essentially classical framework, in which one loses all ability to explain cosmologyâs central question - why our universe is the way it is. In particular a bottom-up approach to cosmology either requires one to postulate an initial state of the universe that is carefully fine-tuned [10] - as if prescribed by an outside agency or it requires one to invoke the notion of eternal inflation [11], which prevents one from predicting what a typical observer would see.
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but Hawking proposes a top down cosmology... which is takes some real thought to wrap your mind around... but...
in a mulitiverse populated by bubble universes with no boundry conditions... you could surmise that if you are alive in your universe... it is because in the previous history of your universe was part of the line of universes in which the force of gravity was dialed in just right.
So gravity shaped your universe... or gravity made your universe.