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Pareto efficiency and Standard Model parameters
Pareto Efficiency is a well understood concept in economics, which basically is a condition where no one actor could be made better off without some one being made worse off. This condition allows ...
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Why aren't we Boltzmann brains in an infinite universe?
Either space is compact, or it is infinite. If space is infinite in extent, either it is thermal over an infinite volume, or it is in the vacuum state for most of it. If it is thermal, infinity is a ...
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Why doesn't the anthropic principle select for N=2 SUSY compactifications with an exactly zero cosmological constant?
The party line of the anthropic camp goes something like this. There are at least $10^{500}$ flux compactifications breaking SUSY out there with all sorts of values for the cosmological constant. Life ...
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What does anthropic mean as in Anthropic principle? [closed]
I'm reading a book about string theory, and it describes anthropic principle. Idea is clear to me, I understand this principle describes certain constants in modern physics that are so fine tuned as ...
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Is the only diffeomorphism invariant anthropic principle the final anthropic principle?
Quantum gravity is a gauge theory with the gauge symmetry spacetime diffeomorphisms. Presumably the quantum state of our universe is invariant under spacetime diffeomorphisms, including timelike ...
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Does a complete theory of quantum gravity require anthropic post-selection?
Does a complete theory of quantum gravity require anthropic post-selection? Certainly the black hole complimentarity and causal patch conjectures highlights the essential role of observers, at least ...
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Fine Tuned Universe
Is the fine tuning that cosmologists talk about (that our Universe is fine tuned for intelligent life) is the same as the fine tuning of the squared mass parameter of the Higgs in the Standard Model? ...
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pros and cons of the anthropic principle
The anthropic principle has become a very popular explanation among theoretical physicists lately. Life is unlikely, but only life can observe, so we find ourselves in an unlikely position, so to ...
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Does the anthropic principle entail the existence of a huge multiverse? [closed]
As many cosmologists have pointed out, the universe is extremely fine-tuned for life in so many respects, and life, especially intelligent life, is extremely unlikely to emerge. The strong anthropic ...
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The measure problem in the anthropic principle
The anthropic principle is based upon Bayesian reasoning applied to the ensemble of universes, or parts thereof, conditioned upon the existence of conscious observers. That still leaves us with the ...
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Are many-worlds and the multiverse really the same thing?
Are many-worlds and the multiverse really the same thing?
Not too long ago, Susskind and Bousso uploaded the article "The Multiverse Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics" with the thesis that the ...
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Undergraduate-friendly reading material on the multiverse?
I'll be teaching a seminar for first-year undergraduates next year. The idea of my university's first-year seminar program is to expose students to exciting ideas and important texts in a somewhat ...
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Can (or How) Anthropic Principle be Made into a Scientific Theory?
Anthropic Principle says
physical Universe must be compatible
with the conscious life that observes
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I thought it is just philosophy mumbo-jumbo and it's not physics.
But I could be ...
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Where does the $10^{500}$ estimate for the number of stringy vacua come from?
This number is thrown around a lot so I'd like to understand its origin. I know that it counts compactifications of string theories on (not only) Calabi-Yau manifolds and probably also some other ...
