Anthropic principle and the time we find ourselves in

[carwe]

Now, regarding the anthropic principle, I've been having the following thoughts.

I have been considering the fact that we live in an age which is of the order of magnitude of the time it would take from the Big Bang until conditions of life can occur. It takes time for stars and planets to form, time to let the sun cool down, and so on. Only the facts that the universe is 14 bn years old and the Earth is 4 bn would, I argue, be enough to tell that we live in an age of the order of magnitude of the time needed for condition of life to occur.

As I have understood it, the latest findings tell that the ultimate fate of the universe is simply to continue to expand - galaxy clusters will be pulled apart (over the horizon from each other), the microwave background will cool down, but the galaxies will remain.

If that is the case, our age should be an early age (compared to the time that there will be galaxies, which might be for an infinite time, or at least several orders of magnitude larger than the current age of the unverise).

So, my question is this: Shouldn't we in that case be surprised to find ourselves in such an early age of the unvierse?

I would argue, that either:
1. Galaxies and stars will not continue to exist for further several orders of magnitude of the unvierse's current age, or,
2. We just happen to find ourselves in an early age of the universe, just by chance.

2. gets more and more unlikely the longer time that stars and galaxies will continue to exist.

Any thoughts on this?

 

[mrspeedybob]

Eventualy all the hydrogen will be used up and the stars will cool. The galaxies will just be cold dark swirling masses. Not great for life.