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Eric Hedin
Date
June 2, 2022
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Fine tuning, Multiverse, Science
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At Big Think: How the Multiverse could break the scientific method

Eric Hedin
June 2, 2022
Fine tuning, Multiverse, Science
Theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser raises the issue that the multiverse hypothesis suffers from the unscientific property of non-falsifiability. Embedded in his article is a solid acknowledgement of the fine-tuning of physical parameters for life to exist in our universe. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 14, 2022
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Books of interest, Fine tuning, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Denton’s prior fitness argument: Everything seems to have come together to produce humans

Denyse O'Leary
May 14, 2022
Books of interest, Fine tuning, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
But didn’t Freeman Dyson (1923–2020) say, “The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming.” The idea isn’t new; there’s just much more evidence for it. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 8, 2022
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Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Multiverse
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Rescuing the multiverse as a science concept… ?

Denyse O'Leary
May 8, 2022
Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Multiverse
Barnes on the multiverse: In the cycle of the scientific method, the multiverse is in an exploratory phase. We've got an idea that might explain a few things, if it was true. That makes it worthy of our attention, but it's not quite science yet. We need to find evidence that is more direct, more decisive. Read More ›
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May 1, 2022
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Astronomy, Fine tuning, Food for thought, Physics
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FOR REFERENCE: Globular Cluster M55 as illustrating apparent aging of our galaxy (& cosmos)

kairosfocus
May 1, 2022
Astronomy, Fine tuning, Food for thought, Physics

It seems helpful to illustrate cosmological scale apparent aging as stars depart main sequence: An idealised, Hertzsprung-Russell chart for Hydrogen-rich balls prone to become fusion furnaces is: Here is a comparative plot (for open clusters), constructing a “clock” by projected pattern as a cluster ages, in effect seeing what is left as a candle burns down: This can be taken as illustrative of how our cosmos shows entropy-associated aging on the grand scale. Further illustrative, here is a NASA-derived cosmological timeline model, integrated with fine tuning: Speaking of fine tuning, Barnes et al summarise: All of this ties to core thermodynamics: Food for thought. END

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 3, 2022
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Cosmology, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Multiverse
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Steve Meyer on why a supposed multiverse is no answer to the extreme fine-tuning of our universe

Denyse O'Leary
April 3, 2022
Cosmology, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Multiverse
Meyer on multiverse cosmologists: "The speculative cosmologies (such as inflationary cosmology and string theory) they propose for generating alternative universes invariably invoke mechanisms that themselves require fine-tuning, thus begging the question as to the origin of that prior fine-tuning." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 24, 2022
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Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
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Fine tuning of the universe: “Who Ya Gonna Believe Me or Your Own Eyes?”

Denyse O'Leary
March 24, 2022
Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
So Larry Krauss argues “cosmological fine-tuning does not provide evidence of intelligent design, but instead, ‘the illusion of intelligent design.’” Isn’t that a misuse of the concept of illusion? Doesn’t it amount to saying, Who Ya Gonna Believe Me or Your Own Eyes? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 14, 2022
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Extraterrestrial life, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design

At Mind Matters News: Is this idea too crazy?: There was life on the early Moon?

Denyse O'Leary
March 14, 2022
Extraterrestrial life, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
To the extent that the universe appears fine-tuned for life to a dramatic degree, it’s at least reasonable to think it could have survived on, say, the Moon or Mars until conditions there became prohibitive. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 3, 2022
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Cosmology, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Deepening crisis in particle physics — Rob Sheldon responds

Denyse O'Leary
March 3, 2022
Cosmology, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics
But when theoretical physicists start messing with reductionism, they are messing with the core assumptions of the meaningless universe. Many attempts are in progress to revalidate those assumptions, of course but... Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 12, 2022
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Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
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Astrophysicist: Quit calling our sun an “average star”

Denyse O'Leary
February 12, 2022
Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
Adam Frank: That whole “average star” meme works great if you want to make it seem like we are nothing special at all in the Universe. But from a stellar census point of view, it’s just not true. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 1, 2022
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Exoplanets, Fine tuning
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Researchers: Moons make planets habitable — but not all planets can have them

Denyse O'Leary
February 1, 2022
Exoplanets, Fine tuning
University of Rochester: The researchers found that rocky planets larger than six times the mass of Earth (6M) and icy planets larger than one Earth mass (1M) produce fully—rather than partially—vaporized disks, and these fully-vaporized disks are not capable of forming fractionally large moons. Read More ›