Quote Originally Posted by Xei View Post
...the cosmological constant doesn't exist.

It was a kind of force which Einstein introduced so that his theory would predict a stationary universe. However he did this without any empirical justification at all - only an ancient prejudice that the universe had existed for eternity. He later called it the greatest blunder of his life.

I agree that the universe is fine tuned though. However, that doesn't really justify an intelligent creator to me (mainly because that just shifts the question of existence onto that creator, which solves nothing). I read in the New Scientist yesterday that physicists are increasingly coming round to the conclusion that there are many universes out there with different constants. They've been trying to iron out this problem by looking for some kind of set of conditions which would ensure that our universe is the only possible one, but it just hasn't worked. It's something I've always believed to true though, the multiverse theory, based upon philosophical reasoning: if there are many different universes (the estimate is an incredible 10^500), there will be a few (most likely a tiny tiny fraction) in which conscious life spontaneously arises through some process or other; and those universes are the ones you find yourself in, because it is impossible to find yourself anywhere else.

I don't think there's a local qigong within 100 miles from here to be honest, but thanks.

Oh god, i can't even imagine THIS universe, let alone a friggin multiverse. How in the universes can this thing be so damn big? possibly infinite....so it would be like a balloon expanding from your air pumping it up like a "big bang".