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What Fine Tunings Are There?

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The Physics of Fine-Tuning
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Is the universe fine-tuned for life? In the first part of their discussion, Bernard Carr and Jim Hartle discuss how physical theories might contain unexplained assumptions that are necessary for the existence of life.
Their discussion touches on the nature of anthropic reasoning and the possibility of the multiverse. This discussion was conducted in the Denys Wilkinson Building, Oxford, on October 18, 2016.

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Practical Fine-Tuning

In the fourth part of their discussion, Luke Barnes and David Sloan look for ways the fine-tuning problems can lead to advances in physics.
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Comparing Theories

In the third part of their discussion, Luke Barnes and David Sloan puzzle over the way we compare theories, and whether there can be a theory that doesn’t have some unexplained posits.
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The Physics of Fine-Tuning
People
Bernard Carr
Jim Hartle
Keywords
fine-tuning
Physics
science
philosophy of science
astronomy
anthropic reasoning
constants of nature
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 06/12/2016
Duration: 00:19:41

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