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This video takes one of cosmology’s strangest ideas and pushes it into much darker territory. By connecting Boltzmann Brains ...

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, ...

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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, ...

A spate of recent articles (like this one on Alec Hogg’s Biznews) has led to a resurgence in the religious idea that the universe is too “finely tuned” for it to be the result of an accident, or a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Am I missing something, or is the summary a little confusing? The anthropic principle is an argument against fine tuning. Other potential universes that are inhospitable could have been equally ...