🧵 The half life of free neutrons is a nearly impossible coincidence
Anonymous at Sat, 22 Jun 2024 22:05:09 UTC No. 16248262
The half life of free neutrons is around 15 minutes; 14 minutes and 39 seconds to be exact. The odds of this are unbelievably small.
Consider the range of time scales that humans can comprehend and experience; on the lower bound it is about 100 ms for someone with quick reflexes. On the upper bound it is an entire life time, say about 100 years for the sake of easy math.
The half life of a neutron could be much shorter, or much longer. Top quarks have a half life of 5×10−25 seconds. Protons may decay, but their half life is so absurdly long that we can't even measure it.
The chances of neutrons' half life randomly falling in the range of 100 ms to 100 years is astronomically low, around 10-34 if my math is correct (I am assuming protons may have a half live on the order of 1031 years). But even still, extremely small chance.
You may want to invoke the anthropic principle. But unlike elemental decay where very radioactive elements decay before they can form stars and planets, there is no obvious reason why free neutrons would fall within that range. The anthropic principle is not applicable here. At least not in any immediately apparent way.
I suppose the question is, why? Is it really just some coincidence, or is there some underlying process or connection that isn't immediately apparent?
Anonymous at Sat, 22 Jun 2024 22:14:23 UTC No. 16248274
>>16248262
>why?
There is no why. It just is. Otherwise, it would not be.
How is it that happens, oh, that we don't know...yet.
Anonymous at Sat, 22 Jun 2024 22:18:46 UTC No. 16248279
>>16248262
There have been and will be so many conscious animals and humans yet you are this particular tranny. Coincidence? I think not.
Anonymous at Sat, 22 Jun 2024 22:18:53 UTC No. 16248280
>>16248274
Well the odds of it being the way it "is" are about 1 in 10 decillion.
Anonymous at Sat, 22 Jun 2024 22:55:23 UTC No. 16248360
>>16248280
Who cares about the odds and "what ifs". This isn't sci-fi. Look around, this is it, and there will never be anything else besides "this".
>but what if there is some other universe, blah, blah
WHO CARES, it's also part of "this", that it.
Anonymous at Sun, 23 Jun 2024 00:49:20 UTC No. 16248525
>>16248262
>pick random real number
>the odds of it in any finite segment of reals is 0
>therefore magic
yet another tard that can't understand continuous probabilities
Anonymous at Sun, 23 Jun 2024 00:52:00 UTC No. 16248529
>>16248525
Wrong, it isn't 0, it's 1/10^36. OP calculated it himself
Anonymous at Sun, 23 Jun 2024 00:55:03 UTC No. 16248531
>>16248529
*herself
Anonymous at Sun, 23 Jun 2024 03:52:39 UTC No. 16248721
Have 5 glasses of water for 5 particles.
remove 1/5 of the water for each glass untill all the glasses run out. This is what it’s like to be a particle.
Anonymous at Sun, 23 Jun 2024 05:17:44 UTC No. 16248786
>>16248262
>The odds of this are unbelievably small.
No it isn't. Kill yourself midwit.
Anonymous at Sun, 23 Jun 2024 05:28:32 UTC No. 16248797
>>16248262
Maybe it is because if their half life that we experience time on the scale that we
do