Fine tuning
Shedding light on water’s weird qualities
At Quanta: Sun “stranger than astrophysicists imagined”
Recent finding: The “water world” exoplanets are not habitable ocean planets
Logic & First Principles, 19: Are we part of a Boltzmann brain grand delusion world (or the like)?
In looking at time (no. 18) we saw how a suggested form of multiverse is one in which sub-cosmi are speculated — there is no observational base, this is philosophy dressed up in a lab coat — to pop up as fluctuations, exhibiting their own “big bang” events and timelines: However, it was not as simple as that. Wikipedia, speaking against known inclinations, summarised: a Boltzmann brain is a self-aware entity that arises due to extremely rare random fluctuations out of a state of thermodynamic equilibrium [–> the predominant, statistically overwhelming group of accessible micro-states for a relevant entity in statistical thermodynamics]. For example, in a homogeneous Newtonian soup, theoretically by sheer chance all the atoms could bounce off and Read More ›
At Forbes: Fine-tuning really is a problem for cosmology, about which nothing can be done
Gaia needs a reboot and New Scientist is here to explain
Are the best measurements to date deepening the “cosmological crisis”?
Templeton winner Marcelo Gleiser endorses the Rare Earth principle
Our superiors explain why “people” believe in pseudoscience
An astrophysicist makes clear why a multiverse MUST exist
Hossenfelder: Now they are marketing non-discoveries as discoveries
“Very few” exoplanets have strong magnetic fields like Earth’s
Hugh Ross: The fine-tuning that enabled our life-friendly moon creates discomfort
Astronomer Robin Canup has spent fifteen years developing models that seem to demonstrate that, whether it is a desired finding or not: Such fine-tuning was not lost on Canup, who remarked in a recent Nature review article, “Current theories on the formation of the Moon owe too much to cosmic coincidences.”4 Indeed, the required “coincidences” continue to pile up… In yet another article in the same issue as Canup’s review, earth scientist Tim Elliott observes that the degree and kinds of complexity and fine-tuning required by lunar origin models appear to be increasing at an exponential rate. Among lunar origin researchers, he notes, “the sequence of conditions that currently seems necessary in these revised versions of lunar formation have led Read More ›