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What Fine Tunings Are There?

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The Physics of Fine-Tuning
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Is the universe fine-tuned for life? In the first part of their discussion, Bernard Carr and Jim Hartle discuss how physical theories might contain unexplained assumptions that are necessary for the existence of life.
Their discussion touches on the nature of anthropic reasoning and the possibility of the multiverse. This discussion was conducted in the Denys Wilkinson Building, Oxford, on October 18, 2016.

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The Physics of Fine-Tuning
People
Bernard Carr
Jim Hartle
Keywords
fine-tuning
Physics
science
philosophy of science
astronomy
anthropic reasoning
constants of nature
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 06/12/2016
Duration: 00:19:41

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