video Topic Series Alan Guth Watch Next Is the Anthropic Principle Significant? What’s Fine-Tuning in Physics? What’s Fine-Tuning in Cosmology? What is the Doomsday Argument? Will the Universe Ever End? Does Cosmic Fine-Tuning Demand Explanation? Details Share Related Topics CosmosOur Special UniverseFar Future of the Universe Featured In The Physics of Eternity Contributors Alan Guth Alan Guth is a pioneer of the theory of inflation to account for the beginning of the... Watch Next Here’s the claim: conditions of the universe relate to the presence of observers. Does the Anthropic Principle convey deep insights? Or thwart science? For sure, it’s... video Is the Anthropic Principle Significant? Episode 04 Season 19 26:48 Watch Why do the “constants of nature” — masses of subatomic particles and strengths of forces like gravity and electromagnetism — have the values they do? Does fine-tuning... video What’s Fine-Tuning in Physics? Episode 03 Season 19 26:48 Watch Here’s the claim: cosmic conditions that allow complex structures — galaxies, stars, planets, people — depend on a few “constants of nature” lying within tight... video What’s Fine-Tuning in Cosmology? Episode 02 Season 19 26:48 Watch Have we underestimated the risks of global catastrophe and human extinction? There is an odd argument that claims to justify end-of-the-world worries with raw statistics. video What is the Doomsday Argument? Episode 02 Season 16 26:47 Watch In the far, far future, what happens to planets, stars, galaxies, black holes? What’s the ‘Big Rip’ and the ‘Big Crunch’? And if ‘multiple universes’ exist,... video Will the Universe Ever End? Episode 04 Season 13 26:46 Watch The universe works for us because of deep physical laws. But if the values of these laws would much change, then all we see and know could not exist. video Does Cosmic Fine-Tuning Demand Explanation? Episode 08 Season 12 26:46 Watch
Here’s the claim: conditions of the universe relate to the presence of observers. Does the Anthropic Principle convey deep insights? Or thwart science? For sure, it’s... video Is the Anthropic Principle Significant? Episode 04 Season 19 26:48 Watch
Why do the “constants of nature” — masses of subatomic particles and strengths of forces like gravity and electromagnetism — have the values they do? Does fine-tuning... video What’s Fine-Tuning in Physics? Episode 03 Season 19 26:48 Watch
Here’s the claim: cosmic conditions that allow complex structures — galaxies, stars, planets, people — depend on a few “constants of nature” lying within tight... video What’s Fine-Tuning in Cosmology? Episode 02 Season 19 26:48 Watch
Have we underestimated the risks of global catastrophe and human extinction? There is an odd argument that claims to justify end-of-the-world worries with raw statistics. video What is the Doomsday Argument? Episode 02 Season 16 26:47 Watch
In the far, far future, what happens to planets, stars, galaxies, black holes? What’s the ‘Big Rip’ and the ‘Big Crunch’? And if ‘multiple universes’ exist,... video Will the Universe Ever End? Episode 04 Season 13 26:46 Watch
The universe works for us because of deep physical laws. But if the values of these laws would much change, then all we see and know could not exist. video Does Cosmic Fine-Tuning Demand Explanation? Episode 08 Season 12 26:46 Watch
