Malintent
Veteran Member
None of this here is more than mental exercise. None of it means anything.
hey now... I take exception to that. Well, it certainly is a mental exercise... but it is meaningful... very meaningful, if you know what to do with it.
Ever try to explain Deep Time to an incredulous science-denier? These "visualization tools" may be very useful. It's also a nice way to show how seemingly "large" probabilities (like of "life" arising) are not very large, as compared to something very familiar, like the order of a deck of cards.