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The Fine-Tuning of the Universe for Life

Luke A. Barnes
(
- Western Sydney U., Penrith
)

Oct 14, 2021

15 pages

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2110.07783 [physics.hist-ph]

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Abstract: (arXiv)

When a physicist says that a theory is fine-tuned, they mean that it must make a suspiciously precise assumption in order to explain a certain observation. This is evidence that the theory is deficient or incomplete. One particular case of fine-tuning is particularly striking. The data in question are not the precise measurements of cosmology or particle physics, but a more general feature of our universe: it supports the existence of life. This chapter reviews this Fine-Tuning of the Universe for Life.

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15 pages, 1 figure. Invited contribution to the Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Physics, edited By Eleanor Knox, Alastair Wilson

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