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# Life in a random universe: Sciama's argument reconsidered

@inproceedings{Wang2021LifeIA,
title={Life in a random universe: Sciama's argument reconsidered},
author={Zhi-Wei Wang and Samuel L. Braunstein},
year={2021}
}
• Published 10 September 2021
• Physics
Random sampling in high dimensions has successfully been applied to phenomena as diverse as nuclear resonances, neural networks and black hole evaporation. Here we revisit an elegant argument by the British physicist Dennis Sciama, which demonstrated that were our universe random, it would almost certainly have a negligible chance for life. Under plausible assumptions, we show that a random universe can masquerade as ‘intelligently designed,’ with the fundamental constants instead appearing to…

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