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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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| | 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...
| | philpapers.org
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| | [AI summary] The provided text is a collection of various academic and philosophical works, including journal articles, essays, and book preprints, covering topics such as cosmology, the philosophy of science, the anthropic principle, and the fine-tuning argument. It includes discussions on the structure of the universe, the nature of time, and the role of consciousness in science. There are also mentions of specific authors and their contributions to these fields, as well as some critiques of Bayesian reasoning and anthropic arguments. The text also contains some personal reflections and opinions on current scientific and philosophical debates.
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| O brave new quantum world!