Anthropic Fluctuations vs. Weak Anthropic Principle

Details Anthropic Fluctuations vs. Weak Anthropic Principle Anthropic Fluctuations vs. Weak Anthropic Principle

2001-09-28

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0109072v1

Found.Sci. 7 (2002) 453-463

Physics

History and Philosophy of Physics

10 pages, no figures; Found. Sci. accepted for publication

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A modern assessment of the classical Boltzmann-Schuetz argument for large-scale entropy fluctuations as the origin of our observable cosmological domain is given. The emphasis is put on the central implication of this picture which flatly contradicts the weak anthropic principle as an epistemological statement about the universe. Therefore, to associate this picture with the anthropic principle as it is usually done is unwarranted. In particular, Feynman's criticism of the anthropic principle based on the entropy-fluctuation picture is a product of this semantic confusion.

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