A Critique of Shortsighted Anthropic Principles
Friday, May 16, 2008 - 13:49
in Physics & Chemistry
Many people marvel that we live in a universe that seems to be precisely tailored to suit the development of intelligent life. The observation is the basis for some forms of "Anthropic Principles" that strive to explain why the laws of physics take the form we observe, given the nearly countless other possibilities permitted by schools of thought such as string theory.