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Something that’s even more mind boggling than that, at least to me is that the universe is still within the first few seconds (or minutes) of its life in terms of relative time we can comprehend. As stars collapse and black holes consume everything, the universe will spend 99% of its life in complete desolate darkness. An endless sea of black holes for billions and billions of years. The fact that we exist, in the split second that life can exist is unimaginable.


Isn't this just the anthropic principle[0]? e.g. "conditions that are observed in the universe must allow the observer to exist"

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle




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