Tag: Fine-tuning of the universe

Cosmic Dance of Gravitational Waves: Abstract representation of two merging black holes, emitting luminous, swirling gravitational waves in a cosmic ballet.

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Bruce Gordon
Date
August 5, 2026

Categorized
Philosophy, Physics

Tagged
Big Bang cosmology, Big Mysteries Survey, Brian Keating, Fine-tuning of the universe, Niayesh Afshordi, Phil Halper}

Polling Physicists: What the Big Mysteries Survey Shows — and Doesn’t

_{Physicists who think that the constants of nature are brute facts without need of explanation simply have an incoherent opinion} _{Bruce Gordon
August 5, 2026

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Philosophy, Physics}

If nature’s beginning has no explanation, the door is left open to embracing unexplained occurrences anywhere in nature, undermining the practice of science.

An Experimental Physicist Reacts to Pop Physics Re the Big Bang

_{Physicists Brian Cox and Sir Roger Penrose make a number of claims about infinite and endless universes. But how much of this is really physics? We asked Rob Sheldon} _{News
June 14, 2025

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Philosophy, Physics}

We hear so much these days about the need for more trust in science. Making science sound like a carnival of unlikely stories is not helping.

The Conviction That ET Is Out There Survives Every Setback

_{Because it is only natural to resist the idea that we are alone, the hope of finding extraterrestrials twists science thinking in strange ways} _{Denyse O'Leary
May 26, 2024

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Astrobiology, Philosophy, Science}

It’s telling that the obvious evidence for the fine-tuning of the universe, implying design, is — in sharp contrast — evaluated in a hypercritical way.