Kal-El lands—as an adult—in Kansas. He explains that he won a planet-wide lottery to be the one to escape the destruction of Krypton.
How many Kryptonians were there?
“One hundred billion”, he answers.
“Absurd”, they say.
“Yes, that does seem like an awful lot of people, but with sufficient technology, it is sustain...”
“No, not that. I’d be prepared to believe that you arrived here if there were ten, or a hundred people on Krypton—but a hundred billion? You strain my credulity.”
Do you mean to suggest that it’s the same way with the universe? (Along the lines of: once we know that some universe is life-permitting and contains us, it seems that its identity should not be surprising, since any some universe is also some particular universe.)
Potentially useful example: Lucky Superman.
Kal-El lands—as an adult—in Kansas. He explains that he won a planet-wide lottery to be the one to escape the destruction of Krypton.
How many Kryptonians were there?
“One hundred billion”, he answers.
“Absurd”, they say.
“Yes, that does seem like an awful lot of people, but with sufficient technology, it is sustain...”
“No, not that. I’d be prepared to believe that you arrived here if there were ten, or a hundred people on Krypton—but a hundred billion? You strain my credulity.”
Do you mean to suggest that it’s the same way with the universe? (Along the lines of: once we know that some universe is life-permitting and contains us, it seems that its identity should not be surprising, since any some universe is also some particular universe.)