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Large Number Coincidences and the Anthropic Principle in Cosmology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2017

Brandon Carter
Brandon Carter*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, U.K.

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Prof. Wheeler has asked me to say something for the record about some ideas that I once suggested (at the Clifford Memorial meeting in Princeton in 1970) and to which Hawking and Collins have referred (Astrophys. J.180, 317, 1973). This concerns a line of thought which I believe to be potentially fertile, but which I did not write up at the time because I felt (as I still feel) that it needs further development. However, it is not inappropriate that this matter should have cropped up again on the present occasion, since it consists basically of a reaction against exaggerated subservience to the ‘Copernican principle’.

Type
Part V: The Structure of Singularities
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 63: Confrontation of Cosmological Theories , 1974 , pp. 291 - 298
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1974