Anthropics and Myopics: Conditional Probabilities and the Cosmological Constant
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v2 Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We re-examine claims that anthropic arguments provide an explanation for the observed smallness of the cosmological constant, and argue that correlations between the cosmological constant value and the existence of life can be demonstrated only under restrictive assumptions. Causal effects are more subtle to uncover.
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@article{arxiv.0709.0502,
title = {Anthropics and Myopics: Conditional Probabilities and the Cosmological Constant},
author = {Irit Maor and Lawrence Krauss and Glenn Starkman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.0502},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
revised to PRL format, additional references and discussion to related work revised