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The Anthropic Cosmological Principle
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In this article, Barrow and Tipler examined the question of Mankind's place in the universe, taking the reader on a tour of many scientific disciplines and offering fascinating insights into issues such as the nature of life, the serach for extraterrestrial intelligence, and the past history and fate of our universe.Abstract:
Is there any connection between the vastness of the universes of stars and galaxies and the existence of life on a small planet out in the suburbs of the Milky Way? This book shows that there is. In their classic work, John Barrow and Frank Tipler examine the question of Mankind's place in the Universe, taking the reader on a tour of many scientific disciplines and offering fascinating insights into issues such as the nature of life, the serach for extraterrestrial intelligence, and the past history and fate of our universe.read more
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The anthropic principle revisited
TL;DR: In the last fifty years, the Anthropic Principle has developed [1], and this might be regarded as a reaction to the mechanistic view as mentioned in this paper, which claims that, in some respects, the Universe has to be the way that it is because otherwise it could not produce life and we would not be here speculating about it.
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Why The Idea Of Purpose Won't Go Away
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that if we want to understand the behaviour of living things (including humans) we have to treat them seriously as subjects, creatures with needs, tendencies and directions of their own.
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Is the $(3+1)-d$ nature of the universe a thermodynamic necessity?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the whole primeval universe as a black body radiation (BBR) system in an $n-$dimensional Euclidean space and propose that the $(3+1)-d$ nature of the universe could be the result of a thermodynamic selection principle stemming from the second law of thermodynamics.
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The universe formation by space reduction cascades with random initial parameters
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TL;DR: In this article, the creation of our universe using the idea of extra dimensions was discussed and many sets of the numerical values of the Lagrangian parameters corresponding to the observed low-energy physics of our Universe were found.
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