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An new essay by Smolin, to be a part of a book that Cambridge University Press is publishing (edited by Bernard Carr et al)
http://arxiv.org/hep-th/0407213 [Broken]
"It is explained in detail why the Anthropic Principle cannot yield any
falsifiable predictions and therefore cannot be a part of science."
Smolin offers an alternative that he argues does yield falsifiable predictions which, although it has not so far been shown false, is nevertheless vulnerable to refutation by observations now planned or in progress.
An new essay by Smolin, to be a part of a book that Cambridge University Press is publishing (edited by Bernard Carr et al)
http://arxiv.org/hep-th/0407213 [Broken]
"It is explained in detail why the Anthropic Principle cannot yield any
falsifiable predictions and therefore cannot be a part of science."
Smolin offers an alternative that he argues does yield falsifiable predictions which, although it has not so far been shown false, is nevertheless vulnerable to refutation by observations now planned or in progress.
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