The Anthropic Principle, first proposed by Brandon Carter in 1973, suggests that the universe is “fine-tuned” to support life ...

A new paper suggests the anthropic principle—that the universe is fine-tuned for life—can be tested. It would be falsified if ...

You could argue that the universe is not really fine-tuned for life. Perhaps if the constants had been different, a different sort of life would have emerged (by different processes) to ask why ...

Each box represents a universe, and each marble an intelligent observer. Let us put 100 marbles in box number one, four in box number two and then two marbles in all other boxes.

The Anthropic Principle—stating that the universe we live in is fine-tuned to host life—was first proposed by Brandon Carter in 1973. Since then, it has sparked significant debate. Now ...

and its purpose is to explore the question of whether the universe we live in is fine-tuned to play host to life. This idea has been formulated a couple different ways over the years. Weak AP ...