How could we decide upon empirical grounds?

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David F Mayer — 2/21/2006 8:11:10 PM (archived)

It seems to me impossible with our current concepts. We only have ONE Universe. How could we possibly detect and measure the properties of others? We would need to advance WAY BEYONJD anything we can even conceive today.

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'the Anthropic Universe' - discussion with Frank Tipler, Paul Davies & Martin Rees - Daniel - 2/20/2006 4:29:53 PM
- I have a couple of Paul Davies' books... - Fox - 2/22/2006 2:17:15 AM
  - Speaking of Paul Davies... - ljkl - 2/23/2006 6:39:04 PM
  - A personal observation - Fox - 2/22/2006 5:58:53 PM
    - thanks for that - Daniel - 2/22/2006 6:03:25 PM
      - What ETI would do to human religion and would ETI have religion? - ljk - 2/23/2006 5:28:44 PM
        
        re: What ETI would do to human religion? - Fox - 2/25/2006 3:49:06 AM
        
        re first contact - Daniel - 2/23/2006 6:10:44 PM
- re: 'the Anthropic Universe' = Intelligent Design? - Raoul - 2/20/2006 5:29:17 PM
  - How could we decide upon empirical grounds? - David F Mayer - 2/21/2006 8:11:10 PM
    - we would need more than one data point, which is all we have now (n/t) - Daniel - 2/22/2006 1:35:43 AM
  - Arrogant now, but in the Far UpWhen? - Adam - 2/21/2006 3:58:03 AM
  - clarification needed? - Daniel - 2/20/2006 5:57:43 PM
  - 'the Anthropic Universe' = Intelligent Design? - a refutation. - Bowser - 2/20/2006 5:55:53 PM
    - "Here come the ModBob, Bow! Let him, nice to know I could make his day" - ModBob - 2/22/2006 1:19:30 AM
    - As a human being, are you any better than anyone else? - Jacob Samorodin - 2/20/2006 8:51:12 PM
    - you know ... - Daniel - 2/20/2006 6:02:17 PM
      - Nature is not always red in tooth and claw - ljk - 2/21/2006 10:42:04 PM
        
        right - Daniel - 2/22/2006 1:33:45 AM
- correction: only on mp3 or streaming audio (no transcript) - Daniel - 2/20/2006 4:32:32 PM
  - Program transcript now online - ljk - 2/23/2006 6:19:07 PM
    - listened to it again last night - Daniel - 2/25/2006 1:44:14 AM
    - The universe out of a monopole in the laboratory? - ljk - 2/23/2006 6:20:13 PM
      - Is our universe about to be mangled? - ljk - 2/24/2006 3:35:51 PM
        
        "Soft bang" instead of "big bang": model of an inflationary universe without singularities and with eternal physical past time - ljk - 2/24/2006 9:44:52 PM
        
        Quantum Nature of the Big Bang - ljk - 2/24/2006 9:53:06 PM

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