The Anthropic Cosmological Principle
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...mological constant or to propose dynamical alternatives to dark energy. Unfortunately, none of these attempts are problem-free. For instance, the so-called anthropic reasoning for the magnitude of Λ (Barrow and Tipler, 1986; Carter, 1974), even when placed into the firmer grounds through the idea of the “anthropic or string landscape” (Susskind, 2003), still makes many physicists feel uncomfortable due to its probabilist...
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...The anthropic principle [277,278] is an interpretational paradigm which argues that, while discussing the origin of physical phenomena and the values of constants of nature, we must recognize the fact that only certain combination and range of values will lead to the existence of intelligence observers in the universe who could ask questions related to these issues....
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...Namely, by generalizing a physical theory (say, the electroweak model) with fixed constants into a more general theory where these constants may have arbitrary values depending upon initial conditions, we make a step from the strong to the weak anthropic principle (also see [20])....
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