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The Cosmic Life Plan

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The Anthropic Principle

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“Let us take a particular cosmological model as a basis for studying what happens when the constants of nature are changed in value. In this way we shall generate not just a new range of models of our universe, but a range or ensemble of universes corresponding to the given cosmological model. An ensemble of universes, covering all values of the constants of nature, apparently contains only a very small subset of universes in which stars and planetary systems exist. This leads to the conclusion: the constants of nature have their observed value because our universe is perhaps the only universe in which they can be observed by intelligent life.”

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    Reinhard Breuer

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Breuer, R. (1991). The Cosmic Life Plan. In: The Anthropic Principle. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6741-1_9

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