When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The James Webb Space Telescope's view of the iconic Pillars of Creation, famous features within ...

For decades physicists have been perplexed about why our cosmos appears to have been precisely tuned to foster intelligent life. It is widely thought that if the values of certain physical parameters, ...

First, the Earth turns out to be a middling planet that's not at the centre of the universe revolving around it. Then, the Sun is just a middling star that's not at the centre of the universe. Then, ...

Does a "fine-tuning" of the universe suggest that a creator god intentionally calibrated the initial conditions of the universe such that life on earth and the evolution of humanity would eventually ...

A fundamental concept is coming back to the fore – that the universe may be fine-tuned for life. The idea is that physical laws and constants are inexplicably just right to support it; any different ...

Breaking radio silence here to report on some of the actual work I've been able to complete: a new paper with Heywood Tam. Unitary Evolution and Cosmological Fine-Tuning Authors: Sean M. Carroll, ...

(Inside Science) -- For all the progress physicists have made in figuring out the universe, they still don't know some pretty basic things. Why, for example, do fundamental particles possess the ...

Humans have often looked at the night sky and wondered if there’s anyone else out there. But stare into that darkness long enough, and many wonder instead: how did we get here? What were the odds, in ...

I like the one where believers feel God plants fake evidence (like some bad cop!)..just to test our faith. Click to expand... Terry Pratchett's Strata sort of touched on this idea by his protagonists ...