“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Monday, November 7, 2011

The Weak Forkthropic Principle

Forks exist. Thus the universe is finely tuned to produce forks.

Likewise there is a weak dolphinthropic principle, a weak child abuse-thropic principle, and a weak Popethropic principle.



1 comment:

Bill Benzon said...

In the library of Babel, Pod Epsilon 37J, floor 82, gallery 9, self 4, six inches from the left, you'll find a treatise on Weak Forkthropathy by Mickey J. Mouse that anticipates this discovery, Tim. The fork is described as having five tines on even numbered days and four on odd numbered days. And it is asserted that weak forthopaty is especially weak on prime number days. The days are counted from the beginning of the year, which is said to be 6712 days long. On the whole, it would seem that this weak forkthopathy thing probably resides in an alternative universe.

But you never know, do you?