Timeline for Does the "Sniper Firing Squad" analogy undermine the anthropic principle’s objection to the fine-tuning argument for God's existence?
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| Apr 2 at 16:50 | comment | added | kaya3 | @Fattie The removed comments like this one? As I said, the idea that different physical constants are possible doesn't entail that a multiverse exists. You are telling me something I have said myself. | |
| Apr 2 at 16:40 | comment | added | Fattie | @kaya3 not sure what to say. (The fact that someone happened to type that on Wikipedia is no more or less interesting than any comment typed here.) As discussed endlessly in the removed comments, "anthropic principle" is used for many ("Bostrom says there are 30") wildly different, profoundly different in paradigm, concepts; "multiverse talk" is heard, in some subset of those, in some subset of the theories about each of those. | |
| Apr 2 at 16:26 | comment | added | kaya3 | @Fattie Note that "possible" doesn't imply they exist. Quoting Wikipedia: "Proponents of the anthropic principle argue that it explains why the universe has the age and the fundamental physical constants necessary to accommodate conscious life, since if either had been different, no one would have been around to make observations." So it's supposed that the fundamental constants could possibly be different, i.e. that universes with other constants would be possible. If one rejects that, then there is nothing to explain: our universe has these constants because others would be impossible. | |
| Apr 2 at 11:56 | comment | added | Fattie | "the Anthropic Principle supposes that there is vast range of possible universes" Not at all. That is one (totally crackpot) thread of discussion that comes up when the anthropic principle is discussed. | |
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| Apr 1 at 17:22 | history | answered | kaya3 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |