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Stories about: anthropic principle

The Anthropic Principle and the Multiverse Searching for life, preferably intelligent one, is one of the main goals in astronomy today. While most people know that chances are relatively slim for a third-degree encounter to actually take place, we don't lose hope because we believe finding life is a game of chance – the more exoplanets we find, the... 13 January 2010 05:56 GMT Anthropic Principle Again Criticized There are a number of people around us who see the universe as a place tuned in precisely to support life, and intelligent beings such as ourselves in particular. This is the basic observation behind what is called the "Anthropic Principle," which is struggling to understand why the constants of the universe are the ... 17 May 2008 07:12 GMT