What's the trouble with anthropic reasoning?
Selection effects in cosmology are often invoked to "explain" why some of the fundamental constant of Nature, and in particular the cosmological constant take on the value they do in our Universe. We briefly review this probabilistic "anthropic reasoning" and we argue that differ...
Main Authors: | Trotta, R, Starkman, G |
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Format: | Conference item |
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2006
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