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Dan HattonI didn't take A-level chemistry back when I was a teenager, so playing catch-up... the equilibrium bond angles in sp² and sp³ hybridized bonds make shapes that tesselate nicely (regular hexagonal prisms and regular tetrahedra respectively) to form crystalline solids. But that didn't have to be the case, did it? Is that one of the anthropic coincidences cosmologists get exercised about? #Chemistry #Cosmology #AnthropicPrinciple
M. Grégoire"Our universe is pretty rare in configuration space - if strong nuclear force were:
* 1% weaker - stars wouldnt make much carbon preventing carbon based life & less heavy element production would delay planet formation & take longer for evolution to occur before stars die
* 1% stronger - stars wouldnt make much oxygen preventing water/earth based life & stars burn faster shortening the time for complex life to emerge"
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our universe is pretty rare in configuration space - if strong nuclear force were: * 1% weaker - stars wouldnt make much carbon preventing carbon based life & less heavy element production would delay planet formation & take longer for evolution to occur before stars die * 1%
WilliamLMiller2️⃣0️⃣ The real event isn’t the pointing.
It’s the gaze…
Rising at last…
Toward the sky.
Toward understanding.
Toward all that waits beneath and beyond it.
🌙
#Nomodynamy #Extropian #AnthropicPrinciple #ObjectiveCompassion #Concupiscere #UBI #HomoSapiensLongevus
1️⃣7️⃣ We didn’t get here easily.
We’re the result of improbable alignments
and adaptive responses
stacked over billions of years.
And now…
We are equipping ourselves
to manage the responsibility for what comes next.
#Extropian #AnthropicPrinciple #Emergence #InstrumentalConvergence #Responsibility
1️⃣3️⃣ And now…
The next condition is ours to create.
Our failure here wouldn’t just be local or political.
It could be cosmic.
We may be life’s only chance
to become permanent.
#Extropian #InstrumentalConvergence #AnthropicPrinciple #ObjectiveCompassion #Emergence
1️⃣1️⃣ That single event reshaped our world:
✅ Stripped away our primitive atmosphere
✅ Increased Earth’s density
✅ Strengthened our magnetic field
✅ Helped us retain both water and air
Without the moon, there’s little chance of life—
much less complex life—ever beginning.
#AnthropicPrinciple #Extropian #Emergence #Existence #Evolution
🔟 4.5 billion years ago…
A Mars-sized protoplanet—Theia—struck the early Earth.
From that impact:
✅ Our moon was born
✅ Our planet’s density increased
✅ Our atmosphere changed
✅ Our magnetic field strengthened
Conditions shifted—
And life became possible.
#AnthropicPrinciple #Extropian #Evolution #Emergence #Existence
9️⃣ And the moon itself?
It’s not just metaphor.
It’s the literal reason we’re here.
The result of an apparently highly improbable event—
A collision that changed everything.
#AnthropicPrinciple #Extropian #Existence #Evolution #Emergence
On Pointing at the Moon: Wisdom, Existence, and Our Shared Horizon
1️⃣ Some lessons can’t be given.
They can only be found.
This is the story of why wisdom needs both conditions and desire—
And why our ability to thrive, grow, and shape the future depends on the same.
Because when the conditions are right…
And when motivation awakens…
Discovery becomes inevitable.
#Concupiscere #Nomodynamy #FreeWill #Growth #ObjectiveCompassion #AnthropicPrinciple #wisdom #philosophy