The beginning of the end of the anthropic principle
Abstract
We argue that if string theory as an approach to the fundamental laws of nature is correct, then there is almost no room for anthropic arguments in cosmology. The quark and lepton masses and interaction strengths are determined.
- Publication:
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New Astronomy
- Pub Date:
- January 2002
- DOI:
- 10.1016/S1384-1076(01)00088-4
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/0001197
- Bibcode:
- 2002NewA....7...45K
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 12 pages