Now as I explained earlier, you can’t just invoke the anthropic principle, it requires that there be multiple values of the Cosmological Constant realized in the “Universe” — however ...

In his recent book 1, Leonard Susskind, a staunch proponent of the anthropic principle, mentions these similarities but, in my view, he fails to follow them to their logical conclusion.

One of the most remarkable books of the last 30 years is The Anthropic Cosmological Principle by John Barrow and Frank Tipler. The “principle” is really nothing more than a statement that the laws ...

According to advocates of anthropic reasoning, in 1987 Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg used the logic to calculate the cosmological constant — the strength of the mysterious force driving the ...

The first problem with the Anthropic Principle is that there is no agreement on what it is. The term itself was invented relatively recently, apparently by British cosmologist Brendan Carter ...

The Landscape: The anthropic paradigm arises from the realization that there are an extremely large, 10 to the 100-1000th power, possible vacua predicted by string theory. It is thus viewed natural ...

An interesting twist on these arguments was provided by Anthony Aguirre, who described anthropic constraints on so-called cold cosmological models, in which the initial ratio of photons to baryons ...

Alan Guth's antidote to a cosmological nightmareBy Hamish Johnston Have you ever wondered what went on in the universe when it was just 10 -35 s old — and how this could be related to our special ...