So the dent in the ground is a perfect fit for the puddle that formed in it?!
Still interesting to ask about that dent’s shape. We could think about how the chemistry of the material composing it/the way it weathered, or approach it as a micro biome where an entire ecological niche is carved out around going from rain puddle to rain puddle. If the puddle is in concrete, we can talk about issues of equity - do some neighborhoods have different shapes of puddle (eg, how well does the city maintain different neighborhood’s infrastructure.)
We can accept that the outlines of our puddle are stochastic and arbitrary, but that doesn’t mean we can’t marvel at tracing out its shape.
Reminds me of the album cover for We Are Here by Apparatjik
That’s a diagram from the same article, actually
This is not very enticing as an idea — that something special happened to have this universe just right — as we really don’t know whether there were unsuccessful universes before ours, we don’t know what happened before the big bang that created our universe
There could be good reasons we don’t know of that forces all the constants to be as they are. The dice could have been cast many times before. We can’t know. This idea doesn’t help
