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Has anyone tried Victor Stenger's "MonkeyGod" toy universe program?
I haven't yet.
http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vstenger/Cosmo/monkey.html
I heard about it on the Cosmic Horizons blog:
http://cosmic-horizons.blogspot.com/2011/09/peer-review-fallacy-of-fine-tuning.html
which was reviewing the Stenger book called "The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning"
==sample quote from review==
... not particularly satisfied by it all, although this book does demonstrate that some of the claims of fine tuning are not as fine-tuned as originally thought. In fact, the author has a little web interface called MonkeyGod which allows you to make your own universe and see if you will get stars and heavy elements (the ingredients of life).
In summary, this is something we should probably give some serious thought to, and this book is not a bad place to start.
==endquote==
I haven't yet.
http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vstenger/Cosmo/monkey.html
I heard about it on the Cosmic Horizons blog:
http://cosmic-horizons.blogspot.com/2011/09/peer-review-fallacy-of-fine-tuning.html
which was reviewing the Stenger book called "The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning"
==sample quote from review==
... not particularly satisfied by it all, although this book does demonstrate that some of the claims of fine tuning are not as fine-tuned as originally thought. In fact, the author has a little web interface called MonkeyGod which allows you to make your own universe and see if you will get stars and heavy elements (the ingredients of life).
In summary, this is something we should probably give some serious thought to, and this book is not a bad place to start.
==endquote==
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