Why anthropic reasoning cannot predict Lambda.
We revisit anthropic arguments purporting to explain the measured value of the cosmological constant. We argue that different ways of assigning probabilities to candidate universes lead to totally different anthropic predictions. As an explicit example, we show that weighting different universes by...
Hoofdauteurs: | Starkman, G, Trotta, R |
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Formaat: | Journal article |
Taal: | English |
Gepubliceerd in: |
2006
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