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When You Buy A Jacket, You Pick The Size To Ensure It Fits. Similarly, We Live In A Universe In Which The Amount Of Dark Energy Fits Our Biological Make-up. If The Amount Of Dark Energy Were Substantially Different From What We've Measured, The Environmental Conditions Would Be Inhospitable To Our Form Of Life.

-Brian Greene

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When You Buy A Jacket, You Pick

Brian Greene

When You Buy A Jacket, You Pick The Size To Ensure It Fits. Similarly, We Live In A Universe In Which The Amount Of Dark Energy Fits Our Biological Make-up. If The Amount Of Dark Energy Were Substantially Different From What We've Measured, The Environmental Conditions Would Be Inhospitable To Our Form Of Life.

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