In this paper I attempt to address a serious criticism of the “Anthropic Landscape” and “Discretuum” approach to cosmology, leveled by Banks, Dine and Gorbatov. I argue that in this new and unfamiliar setting, the gauge Hierarchy may not favor low energy supersymmetry. 1 The Banks Dine Gorbatov Argument Let’s begin by reviewing a successful use of the anthropic principle. In 1987 Steven Weinber...

In a recent study of astrophysical “fine-tunings” (or “coincidences”), Robert Klee critically assesses the support that such astrophysical evidence might be thought to lend to the design argument (i.e., the argument that our universe has been designed by some deity). Klee argues that a proper assessment indicates that the universe is not as “fine-tuned” as advertised by proponents of the design...

In this paper, I show why in an ensemble theory of the universe, we should be inhabiting one of the elements of that ensemble with least information content that satisfies the anthropic principle. This explains the effectiveness of aesthetic principles such as Occam’s razor in predicting usefulness of scientific theories. I also show, with a couple of reasonable assumptions about the phenomenon...

How many distinctions, in Latin, quantum distinctiones. We suggest approach of anthropic principle based on anthropic reference system which should be applied equally both in theoretical physics and in mathematics. We come to principle that within reference system of life subject of mathematics (that of thinking) should be equated with subject of physics (that of nature). For this reason we ent...

The original formulation of the (weak) anthropic principle was prompted by a question about objective time at a macroscopic level, namely the age of the universe when “anthropic” observers such as ourselves would be most likely to emerge. Theoretical interpretation of what one observes requires the theory to indicate what is expected, which will commonly depend on where, and particularly when, ...

The historical centre of Rome is characterized by the presence of high thickness of anthropic cover with scarce geotechnical characteristics. This anthropic backfill could induce damages in urban areas, i.e. mainly differential settlements and seismic amplifications. About 1400 measurements from boreholes stored in the UrbiSIT database have been used to re-construct the anthropic backfill botto...

In the Middle Age, official science said wrongly we are in a very special location, but now it says we are living a special epoch. Indeed, in the famous article of Carr and Rees, 'The anthropic principle and the structure of the physical world', published by Nature (278, 605-612 (1979)) one reads “All these scales can be deduced directly from known physics except the mass and length scale of th...