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宇宙学中的智慧生命

Intelligent Life in Cosmology

Frank J. Tipler

摘要:

我将提出三个论点来支持宇宙中有智慧的生命是非常罕见的这一命题。首先,我将总结一下现代综合论的创始人(辛普森、多布赞斯基和迈尔)的共识,即智慧生命的进化是极其不可能的。第二,我将发展费米粒子:如果它们存在,它们会在这里。第三,我将证明,如果智能生命太普遍,它将耗尽所有可用的资源并灭绝。但我将证明量子力学的幺正性原理(实际上是目的论的一种形式!)需要智慧生命才能存活到时间的尽头最后,我将论证,如果宇宙确实在加速膨胀,那么生存到时间的尽头需要智慧生命,尽管很罕见,但在可见的宇宙中已经进化了好几次。我将论证加速是宇宙中物质多于反物质的结果。我将提出实验来检验这些主张。

英文摘要:

I shall present three arguments for the proposition that intelligent life is very rare in the universe. First, I shall summarize the consensus opinion of the founders of the Modern Synthesis (Simpson, Dobzhanski, and Mayr) that the evolution of intelligent life is exceedingly improbable. Second, I shall develop the Fermi Paradox: if they existed they'd be here. Third, I shall show that if intelligent life were too common, it would use up all available resources and die out. But I shall show that the quantum mechanical principle of unitarity (actually a form of teleology!) requires intelligent life to survive to the end of time. Finally, I shall argue that, if the universe is indeed accelerating, then survival to the end of time requires that intelligent life, though rare, to have evolved several times in the visible universe. I shall argue that the acceleration is a consequence of the excess of matter over antimatter in the universe. I shall suggest experiments to test these claims.

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