Timeline for Earliest example of naturalness/fine-tuning arguments
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| Dec 6, 2013 at 10:42 | vote | accept | innisfree | ||
| Apr 28, 2013 at 20:35 | history | edited | user4552 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 28, 2013 at 19:16 | comment | added | innisfree | I think the relationship between 1), 2) and 3) is cleared up with Bayesian statistics. I wouldn't consider epicycles - this seems to be an application of Occam's razor, rather than naturalness. i.e., the argument is similar, but Occam's razor more aesthetic than statistical, cf. naturalness. The flatness problem is an excellent answer, from reading Guth, I think it was realised, but not stated explicitly, that it was a statistical argument. I still hear lots of people say naturalness is purely aesthetic, which is frustrating. | |
| Apr 28, 2013 at 17:06 | history | answered | user4552 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |