Anthropic principle
In cosmology, the anthropic principle in its most basic form asserts the truism that any valid theory of the universe must be consistent with the existence of human beings and of organic chemistry, ...
Anthropic principle- we see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to observe it
Antigravity- a gravitational field that repels, rather than attracts, matter and light rays ...
ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE - Observation that, since we exist, the conditions of the universe must be such as to permit life to exist.
Anthropic Principle
(a) The doctrine that the value of certain fundamental constants of nature can be explained by demonstrating that, were they otherwise, ...
Anthropic principle
In physics and cosmology, the anthropic principle is the collective name for several ways of asserting that physical and chemistry theories, especially astrophysics and cosmology, ...
1961 - Robert Dicke argues that carbon-based life can only arise when the Dirac large numbers hypothesis is true because this is when burning stars exist; first use of the weak anthropic principle ...
Opponents dismiss both Rare Earth and the anthropic principle as tautological - if a condition must exist in the universe for human life to arise, then the universe must already meet that condition, ...
One could argue that the anthropic principle, which notes that in many ways apparently arbitrary parameters in the Universe have values conducive to the existence of intelligent life, is not just a selection effect but rather a choice by a Creator.
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(b) The weak form of the anthropic principle states that life can exist only during a brief period of the history of our Universe.
I feel the need to go more in-depth explaining virtual particles, hawking radiation, Decay of the X boson, infinite spatial dimensions, Inflation, Conservation of Energy, cosmic background radiation, the anthropic principle, vacuum genesis, ...
like were they (and other constants like the mass of an electron) different. It turns out you can't change these values much without making life-as-we-know-it impossible. Such consideration has led to several variations of "Anthropic Principle." ...
 See also: Time, Universe, Energy, Element, Big Bang
  
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