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A world different from ours

שו”תCategory: philosophyA world different from ours
asked 4 months ago

Hello Rabbi!

I read your book “The First Found.” I must say that it is an excellent book that I have not found a second to in the current generation. thanks!
Just a question. Regarding your claim about the laws of physics, I had a hard time with something. Let’s say the laws of physics were different to begin with, so the relationships between the materials were different. I am a physics student myself (I am aware that the rabbi is more knowledgeable in physics than I am, which is why I am turning to him), and I once read that there is a scientific possibility that the laws of physics were different.
Let’s assume that there really were other laws. The universe was different. There is a possibility that a universe of “blobs” in general (forms without a defined shape) would have been created. Although, even in this universe of blobs, there is a possibility that after billions of years and evolutionary processes, life (of people in the shape of blobs) would have been created. There is a possibility that their lives would have been different from ours; perhaps they were on particles moving in space. I don’t know. But their reality could have been completely different from our experience of the universe. To them, this world of blobs was orderly. In fact, it would have seemed intelligent to them as well. And the only difference was that the relationship of power was different from the start. The society of the blob people was built entirely on such a blobish reality.
Doesn’t this mean that we too are amazed by something (and rightly so), but it is also possible that billions of different manifestations of matter would also cause the admiration of worlds that do not actually exist?
It’s important for me to emphasize: I’m not talking about infinite universes that are subject to the teapot test. I’m talking about a purely theoretical reality, which only shows that the existing reality is not necessarily special.
 
Thank you very much!


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מיכי Staff answered 4 months ago
I think I answered this question there, and here on the site more than once. This is essentially the anthropic argument. If we are talking about creatures with a level of complexity like humans or animals, then the chance that they will be found in other universes is also very small. Of course, if there were masses of universes that were created, then this could happen in a few of them. But there is no indication that there are masses of such universes. And even if there are, their creation itself requires an explanation (who is the generator of this universe? And who created it?). And even if we accept that they exist, then in each of them there could be different and strange, incredibly complex creatures of all kinds and species: angels, demons, gods, humans, and other aliens. So why shouldn’t there be some kind of God in one of them, for example? Note that the atheistic alternative you offer to the claim that there is a God is that there are masses of universes of all kinds and species (none of which we have the slightest indication of their existence) in which there are different and strange creatures as crazy as you want (including gods). And this is the simpler alternative than the one that God created our universe?

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‫אורי‬‎ replied 4 months ago

First of all, thank you!
But my point was not that such reconstructions exist, but that our universe amazes us, but the creatures of the Blobs could equally marvel at another location, so where is the necessary boundary for this ”complexity”?

מיכי Staff replied 4 months ago

I also explained this through concepts of entropy. The complexity of our world is objective and not in the eyes of the observer (creatures with low entropy). That is why it is truly amazing. If you were to grill a different system of natural laws, creatures with a complexity like the one in our world would almost never be created.

‫אורי‬‎ replied 4 months ago

But that's exactly my point, wouldn't the blobs I described earlier think the same thing? And if not, why not?

מיכי Staff replied 4 months ago

I don't understand where this discussion is going. If the Blobs were as complex as we are, then they would indeed be right.

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