NATS 1525 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Omnipotence, Copernican Principle, Silicon Dioxide
31 Jan 2017
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Nats1525 -january 20th lecture notes: rafael - school of athens, ancient greece. Atomists (for) - democritus, lucretius, epicurus - not believers in god, atheists. Present state of nature is the result of a long evolutionary process (example of evolution is natural selection) Infinite number of atoms and their random motion implies an infinite number of universes (important): randomness of the motion and infinite number basically implying that there is a very strong possibility of other universes with life. Their universe had the moon in the centre, mercury venus mars jupiter and saturn the sun, moon and stars orbiting the earth on a circular (meaning similar creations with earth at the centre - infinite worlds) Universes are independent from each other, cannot see or contact one another. : there are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For atoms being ini fine in number are borne far out of space.
