06Sep 2024 by Post

Robin Collins’s “Fine-Tuning for Discoverability” Argument

anthropic fine-tuning, cosmology, Creation, creator, discernable-discoverability-optimality range, entropy, fine structure constant, fine-tuning, fine-tuning for discoverability, initial conditions, Intelligent Design, John Templeton Foundation, Messiah College, particle physics, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, Robin Collins, signal, The Privileged Planet, Two Dozen (or So) Arguments for God, Yale University
In November 2000 we each presented at the “Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe” symposium at Yale University. Source
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30Mar 2022 by Post

Unexplained — Maybe Unexplainable — Numbers Control the Universe

Carl Sagan, Contact (novel), Cosmos (magazine), electromagnetism, extraterrestrials, Fibonacci sequence, fine structure constant, Golden Ratio, Intelligent Design, Jordan Ellenberg, Laurence Eaves, Paul Davies, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, pi, Planck’s constant, quantum mechanics, relativity, Richard Feynman, University of Nottingham, Wolfgang Pauli
Richard Feynman called 1/137, the fine structure constant, “a magic number that comes to us with no understanding by man.” Source
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