One day I was walking by and saw a flower. It was bright red, with a yellow wasp pollinating it. At that moment, a question struck me; why red and why yellow? How come we can only perceive only three main colours, and if we could ‘see’ all the spectrum of waves, why would it only be limited to such? Shouldn't there be an infinite number of different colours which we cannot understand? Then I realized it’s not just colours. There are various limitations in our universe, as if set, as if put inside the universe by a god. The dissociation constant of water, quantum states, charges…all of these can be deduced, and always give the same results, but why?
Surely, the universe did not ‘decide’ what to choose. Well, the answer is, it did not, but it was forced to. What we perceive (our universe), has such a state, and we can only calculate as such, and if we ask why there aren’t variables, maybe there are, but it’s not this specific universe. Some may stipulate that such constant factors in our universe can only be as such because the universe would not be able to exist otherwise. But that, to me, is a narrow-minded answer.
If there are an infinite number of universes in existence, then there surely must be an infinitesimal number of observable universes with different constants, different colours which we, as humans, cannot comprehend…and maybe, something even more…something beyond senses – not colours, not tastes, not touch and not smells. We, as humans living in this universe, are limited to what we have been evolved to observe, but there should (there is) an infinite number of possibilities out there. The thought of such a possibility and the limitation of it in our universe is evidence of such.
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