Asri-unix.985
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Thu Mar 11 23:13:03 1982
Various cosmological comments
You've just inspired something brilliant in me, an anthropic
explanation for redshift of distant galaxies! Suppose that some
physical "constant" that affects the global characteristics of atomic
spectra varies continuously but otherwise is free to vary at will.
Suppose that when this "constant" is at a maximum, energy (frequency)
of spectral lines is at a maximum, and life evolves at a maximum rate.
Then the reason we observe distant galaxies redshifted is that we
happen to be at a local peak in this physical "constant". Why does
this "constant" happen to be at a maximum here, because if it weren't
then life would evolve somewhere else instead of here and we would be
there instead of here looking at the Universe.

I don't for a moment propose this theory, but it's hard to refute!
Anybody want to try?