121
New Theories / Re: If there was one Big Bang event, why not multiple big bangs?
« on: 10/04/2023 23:35:56 »Let's discuss something "having no significance"; perhaps something as insignificant as a single grain of sand on an infinite beach. Could we say that one such single grain of sand would have no significance?The beach would be no less a beach without that one grain, but without all of them, there'd be no beach.
There's a sort of paradox that argues along those lines.
Quote
Under what circumstances would a single human life have no significance?The one life has significance to that one life. All of humanity has negligible (arguably zero?) significance to the universe as a whole, but per the beach analogy, without humanity and other life forms that pop up here and there, the universe would not be a structure that contains elements that can understand the nature of the structure of which they are a part. That's a non-trivial significance for the beach even if humanity itself (the one grain) isn't necessary for it.
The following users thanked this post: Bogie_smiles