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Fine-tuned Universe
About: Fine-tuned Universe is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 42 publications have been published within this topic receiving 2699 citations.
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01 Jan 1986
TL;DR: 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.
1,755 citations
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01 Jan 1997
TL;DR: In The Life of the Cosmos as discussed by the authors, Lee Smolin argues that the underlying structure of our world is to be found in the logic of evolution and departs from contemporary physicists to explore the idea that the laws of nature we observe may be the partial result a process of natural selection that occurred before the Big Bang.
Abstract: In The Life of the Cosmos, Lee Smolin offers a theory of the universe that is radically different from anything proposed before. He argues that 'The underlying structure of our world is to be found in the logic of evolution'. He departs from contemporary physicists to explore the idea that the laws of nature we observe may be the partial result a process of natural selection that occurred before the Big Bang.
453 citations
03 Nov 2005
TL;DR: The opening talk at the symposium "Expectations of a final theory," at Trinity College, Cambridge, on September 2, 2005, was given by B. B. Carr as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: This is the written version of the opening talk at the symposium "Expectations of a Final Theory," at Trinity College, Cambridge, on September 2, 2005. It is to be published in Universe or Multiverse?, ed. B. Carr (Cambridge University Press).
151 citations
TL;DR: Physicists and cosmologists have been exploring increasingly ambitious ideas in an attempt to explain how surprising aspects of the authors' Universe can arise from simple dynamical principles.
Abstract: It goes without saying that we are stuck with the Universe we have. Nevertheless, we would like to go beyond simply describing our observed Universe, and try to understand why it is that way rather than some other way. When considering both the state in which we find our current Universe, and the laws of physics it obeys, we discover features that seem remarkably unnatural to us. Physicists and cosmologists have been exploring increasingly ambitious ideas in an attempt to explain how surprising aspects of our Universe can arise from simple dynamical principles.
67 citations