The Mysterious Power of Numbers

Is there a deep mystery hidden in Numbers?

Let me open your eyes and raise consciousness levels to understand the mysterious and almost divine power of numbers.  Let me start with an example, some one asked me recently on how is it possible for big bang theorists to conclude that a perfectly life-friendly earth could be formed by a big bang?  Surely earth is filled with too many perfections that sustains life.  These are too difficult to imagine to have been created by chance theory of big bang alone.  For example had the power of gravity been at a higher degree than present, we would not be able to walk or move our legs because of high intensity of gravity.  Needless to say that had gravity been lesser, we would be floating in space.  It is the right value of gravity that makes life possible and keeps earth in motion.


The same is true about every element on earth like Oxygen, Nitrogen and Carbon dioxide values in the atmosphere.  Had carbon dioxide been at higher level than what is present or oxygen been slightly lesser than the present quantity in the atmosphere, life would not be possible because of imbalance in the carbon cycle and subsequent death of plant life and animal life.  So many perfections are there on our earth which seek explanation and defy the theory that a big bang could have created earth by chance alone. 

We live in a life friendly planet whose perfection is extremely extremely improbable to have been created by chance alone.

The Most pertinent question here is as follows "Can chance ever create perfection?" by perfection i mean Perfection of not a small measure but a very large measure. 

The Answer to this question lies in the mysterious power of numbers.  Let me explain this with an example:

Imagine that there is a very big hall, now this is the biggest hall in the world whose capacity is 100 crores or 1 billion people.  A billion people enter the hall.  Each person sits inside the hall occupying a chair and a desk before him.  Each mans job is to cast dice 10 times consecutively ie one throw after another and record the result on a paper.  Is there a probability that a person will get the number 6 in all the 10 trials?

Had it been an individual casting the die for 10 times, we could say with a good certainty that he would not get the number 6 in 10 consecutive trials, but if the population is as big as 100 crores, it is not very difficult to imagine that some of them could get the number 6 in all consecutive 10 throws of dice.  To be mathematically precise one person in every 6 crore people will get it the number 6 in all 10 consecutive trials.

This my friend is the mysterious and almost divine power of numbers.  The most beautiful insight of probability theory is that given a very very large number population doing the trial, the smallest probability or the seemingly impossible could also be realized.

The seemingly impossible or highly improbable event is also possible if you just had the power of numbers with you.  The remotest and smallest possibility could also become true with a large population trying the activity.

Now coming to the question of earth's apparent friendly perfection for sustenance of life, we should conclude on the same principles as discussed above.  Today scientist tell us that there are atleast a billion planets in our galaxy and atleast billion galaxies in our universe.  Which means the total number of probable planets in universe are a billion billion.  Now does it look so improbable that in the process of big bang, the vast energy of hydrogen was thrown in various places all over the universe and one planet out of billion billion planets had got the right mix of oxygen, nitrogen, gravity and molecular framework necessary for sustenance of life.

Perhaps not if you view this in the context of vast majesty, magnificence and grandeur of universe and the fact that there are various planets having different combination of elements which cannot support life.