Fine-Tuning in the Physical Universe

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Edited by David Sloan, Lancaster University, Rafael Alves Batista, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Michael Townsen Hicks, University of Birmingham, Roger Davies, University of Oxford

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: October 2020
Print publication year:: 2020
Online ISBN:: 9781108614023
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108614023

Subjects:: Physics and Astronomy, Cosmology, Relativity and Gravitation, History, Philosophy and Foundations of Physics

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Is the universe fine-tuned for complexity, life, or something else? This comprehensive overview of fine-tuning arguments in physics, with contributions from leading researchers in their fields, sheds light on this often used but seldom understood topic. Each chapter reviews a specific subject in modern physics, such as dark energy, inflation, or solar system formation, and discusses whether any parameters in our current theories appear to be fine-tuned and, if so, to what degree. Connections and differences between these fine-tuning arguments are made clear, and detailed mathematical derivations of various fine-tuned parameters are given. This accessible yet precise introduction to fine-tuning in physics will aid students and researchers across astrophysics, atomic and particle physics and cosmology, as well as all those working at the intersections of physics and philosophy.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-viii

Acknowledgements
pp xi-xii

List of Contributors
pp ix-x

Part I - Introduction
pp 1-2

1 - Fine-Tuning, Complexity, and Life in the Multiverse
pp 3-19

2 - Hierarchy of Fine-Structure Consta
pp 20-64

Part II - Cosmological Fine-Tunings
pp 65-66

3 - Naturalness, Fine-tuning, and Observer Selection in Cosmology
pp 67-110

4 - Cosmic Inflation: Trick or Treat?
pp 111-173

5 - Is the Universal Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry Fine-Tuned?
pp 174-202

6 - Structure Formation
pp 203-234

Part III - Fine-Tuning in Particle and Nuclear Physics
pp 235-236

7 - Nuclear Physics and Its Impact on Primordial and Stellar Nucleosynthesis
pp 237-306

8 - Fine-Tunings at Particle Scales
pp 307-344

9 - Dark Matter
pp 345-380

Part IV - Fine-Tuning for Life
pp 381-382

10 - Fine-Tuning: From Star to Galaxies Formation
pp 383-411

11 - How Special Is the Solar System?
pp 412-457

12 - On the Temporal Habitability of Our Universe
pp 458-510

13 - Climbing Up the Theories of Nature: Fine-Tuning and Biological Molecules
pp 511-538

Index
pp 539-558

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