anthropic principle
Britishnoun
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Horgan: What about multiverses and the anthropic principle?
From Scientific American • Feb. 1, 2020
The first result — the anthropic principle — has been accepted by physicists for 43 years.
From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2016
The idea that physical laws must be the way they are because otherwise we could not be here to measure them is called the anthropic principle.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
The anthropic principle suggests that in some sense we are observing a special kind of universe; if the universe were different, we could never have come to exist.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
This is an example of the application of what is known as the anthropic principle, which can be paraphrased as “We see the universe the way it is because we exist.”
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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