Is Cosmology Really a Science?
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The Anthropic Principle of Life
We are genuinely trying to become the kind of two Ronnies of science programming, and now we've found Elke Brooks as well. If there isn't something to observe it, then it itself doesn't exist. That's the strong anthropic principle, which you find to understand it correctly. The universe is quite big, I think, we've agreed. But it started out really, really tiny. By observing from however remote a distance or time, the origins of the universe, then according to Heisenberg, we're kind of affecting them. And I think that the idea was that we had retroactively made this a fit universe to live in so that we could evolve across the
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