Re: Strictly OT - conworlding with 92% or thereabouts commonality with current universe

Den 4. jan. 2008 kl. 17.15 skreiv John Vertical:
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> Not particularly much. If you want to re-do mathematics, you should
> get a *lot* less than 90%-ish commonality with reality. Rather, the
> subject line reminded me more of an idea I've entertained a bit but
> not developed too far yet: an universe where quantum chromodynamics
> has been fudged with a bit, with the result that uneven nuclei are
> more stable than even. Chemistry, cosmology etc. are as usual, the
> world's just made of like boron and nitrogen etc moreso than carbon
> and oxygen...
That's interesting. Have you made up any isotopic abundance tables?
Do nuclei in your conworld have any shell structure? Carbon-based
life must be even rarer in that universe than it is in ours. And
given the very special properties of carbon, I think it's very hard
to imagine any other chemical basis for life. But perhaps mind can
exist even without those carbonaceous complications that we base our
lives on.

LEF

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