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   Our Improbable Existence Is No Evidence for a Multiverse   
      
   Experts in probability have spotted a logical flaw in theorists’ reasoning   
      
   We exist, and we are living creatures. It follows that the universe we live in   
   must be compatible with the existence of life. However, as scientists have   
   studied the fundamental principles that govern our universe, they have   
   discovered that the odds of a    
   universe like ours being compatible with life are astronomically low. We can   
   model what the universe would have looked like if its constants—the strength   
   of gravity, the mass of an electron, the cosmological constant—had been   
   slightly different. What    
   has become clear is that, across a huge range of these constants, they had to   
   have pretty much exactly the values they had in order for life to be possible.   
   The physicist Lee Smolin has calculated that the odds of life-compatible   
   numbers coming up by    
   chance is 1 in 10^229.   
      
   Physicists refer to this discovery as the “fine-tuning” of physics for   
   life. What should we make of it? Some take this to be evidence of nothing   
   other than our good fortune. But many prominent scientists—Martin Rees, Alan   
   Guth, Max Tegmark—have    
   taken it to be evidence that we live in a multiverse: that our universe is   
   just one of a huge, perhaps infinite, ensemble of worlds. The hope is that   
   this allows us to give a “monkeys on typewriters” explanation of the   
   fine-tuning. If you have enough    
   monkeys randomly jabbing away on typewriters, it becomes not so improbable   
   that one will happen to write a bit of English. By analogy, if there are   
   enough universes, with enough variation in the numbers in their physics, then   
   it becomes statistically    
   likely that one will happen to have the right numbers for life.   
      
   Read more here on scientific American:   
      
   https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/our-improbable-existe   
   ce-is-no-evidence-for-a-multiverse/   
      
      
   Thank you,   
   Amine Moulay Ramdane.   
      
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