Imagine you've encountered a natural phenomenon you want to understand better, but don't have the tools to do so. Perhaps you're curious why the fundamental constants have the values that they do, or ...

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In their 1990 book The Early Universe, cosmologists Rocky Kolb and Mike Turner write: “It is unclear to one of the authors how a concept as lame as the ‘anthropic idea’ was ever elevated to the status ...