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Fun Fact! A Multiverse Makes More Sense if You're an Atheist
Life would not be able to exist if the physical universe followed even slightly altered principles, according to Stanford University physicist Andrei Linde in a 2008 interview. If protons were just 0.2 percent more heavy than they are, they would be so unstable that they would split off into smaller particles, rendering atoms impossible. And the outcome would be disastrous if gravity were just a little bit stronger. Stars like our sun would be packed so tightly that they would burn through their fuel in a few million years, long before life on Earth could emerge. This is referred to as the "fine-tuning difficulty." Some regard such exact balance of conditions as evidence of a supreme being's purposeful han