The Anthropic Principle [Paperback]

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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

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• Paperback: 261 pages
• Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston; 1 edition (December 1, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0817634827
• ISBN-13: 978-0817634827
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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4.0 out of 5 stars The fine tuned universe, March 21, 2009

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This review is from: The Anthropic Principle (Paperback)

In the 1960s scientists realized that the whole cosmos is in a sensible balance. Would have been the Big Bang a billion part of a second more intense matter would have been blown apart so that no galaxies could have been formed. As if the scientists knew how they came into existence!
More striking is that the four forces which regulate the effects between matter and energy have exactly the needed proprieties, so that atoms can associate, so that planets can be formed or so that atoms collide to set free the energy in the stars.
1961 Princeton physicist Robert Dicke published a work about the facts that the universe seems to be exactly tuned so that life is possible. 1974 the astro-physicist Brandon Carter called this concept the "Anthropic principl". The magazine "Discover" defined it like that: "The universe must have proprieties which permit that life can develop, because it was planned to develop observers."
Among the advocates of this concept are among others physicists John Wheeler who issued the notion of the Black Holes. Or the astronomer Alex Filippenko who said: Appropriately used the anthropic principle has a forecasting value: little changes in seemingly boring proprieties of the universe could easily turn out to produce a universe, in which nobody would be there to be bored."
The cosmos is not only accurately tuned to make life possible it is also constructed like a gigantic computer. This theory is from the physicist and informatics scientist Stephen Wolfram. Studies in his computer program named "cellular automation", CA, effected in the conclusion that the universe is mainly like a huge but simple computer program. There are only two questions left:
1. Why was the universe trimmed on life processes and
2. who originated the program since accident cannot do this.