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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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