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4gravitons.com
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| | | | | Why did physicists expect to see something new at the LHC, more than just the Higgs boson? Mostly, because of something called naturalness. Naturalness, broadly speaking, is the idea that there shouldn't be coincidences in physics. If two numbers that appear in your theory cancel out almost perfectly, there should be a reason that they... | |
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www.bretthall.org
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| | | | | This is a paper originally submitted to Swinburne University as part of a postgraduate project. An Anthropic Universe? Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, "This is an... | |
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www.lesswrong.com
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| | | | | Followup to: Anthropic Reasoning in UDT by Wei Dai ... | |
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conscienceandconsciousness.com
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| | | A startling discovery of recent decades is that the laws of physics are fine-tuned for the possibility of life. That is to say, for life to be possible, certain numbers in physics had to fall in a certain narrow range. Some scientists and philosophers try to explain this by postulating an enormous number of universes,... | ||