Published by Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Radio National
published February 18, 2006

The Anthropic Universe

by Martin Redfern

It‘s called the anthropic universe: a world set up so that human beings could eventually emerge. So many physical constants, so many aspects of our solar system, so much seems to be finely tuned for our benefit. But was it? We hear from Professors Martin Rees, Paul Davies, and Frank Tipler, as well as many others, about one of the ultimate questions.

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