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Dear Peter Coles … (via Letters to Nature)

Posted in The Universe and Stuff with tags , , , , on August 7, 2011 by telescoper

Oooh….somebody’s written me a letter via a blog!

I was just re-reading this post over at Cosmic Variance about a paper by Sean Carroll, which he summarises as: Our observed universe is highly non-generic, and in the past it was even more non-generic, or “finely tuned.” One way of describing this state of affairs is to say that the early universe had a very low entropy. … The basic argument is an old one, going back to Roger Penrose in the late 1970′s. The advent of inflation in the early 1980 … Read More

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