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Turtle
Mar20-03, 03:27 PM
Which one do you belive is right the weak anthropic priciple or the strong anthropic pricple.
weak-one uinverse
Strong-millions of universes, each with a differnt value for the constants.

Mentat
Mar26-03, 04:53 PM
Originally posted by Turtle
Which one do you belive is right the weak anthropic priciple or the strong anthropic pricple.
weak-one uinverse
Strong-millions of universes, each with a differnt value for the constants.

Is this really what the anthropic principles are? I heard a much different set of definitions.

Deslaar
Mar26-03, 09:34 PM
Originally posted by Mentat
Is this really what the anthropic principles are? I heard a much different set of definitions.

Not in my opinion. My simple interpretation was:

Strong=Intelligent Design
Weak=Necessary Structure

EDIT: Actually I now see what Turtle was getting at but I believe he/she has it the wrong way around. Strong would imply one universe weak would imply an infinite number.