Screams for Explanation: Finetuning and Naturalness in the Foundations of Physics
History and Philosophy of Physics
2019-12-02 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We critically analyze the rationale of arguments from finetuning and naturalness in particle physics and cosmology. Some other numerological coincidences are also discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1801.02176,
title = {Screams for Explanation: Finetuning and Naturalness in the Foundations of Physics},
author = {S. Hossenfelder},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.02176},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
17 pages, no figures, typos fixed