Are the Laws of Physics Actually Fine-Tuned?
Offered By: University of Houston-Clear Lake via YouTube
Course Description
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
Uncertainty Principle
Gravity
Neutrons
Anthropic Principle
Alternative Scenarios
Steven Weinberg
Multiverse
All possible worlds
What makes life good
Professor Pangloss
Multiverse Research
History
Henderson
Linus Pauling
Goldilocks Planet Tension
The Perfect Spot
hydrothermal vents
thermophilic bacteria
anaerobic metabolism
thermal gradient
no engineers
Denature
Bacteria on the Moon
Slightly different
Not intelligent
G does stay constant
How do we get isotopes
Steven Weinberg Nobel Prize
Carbon
Mass Tuning
Coulombs Law
Gauge Symmetry
Maxwell Unification
Why dont biologists have ananthropic principle
Is it consistent with Maxwells equations
cytochrome C
Algorithms
Calculating pi
Critical density
Inflation
Taught by
College of Science and Engineering
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