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Successful predictions from anthropics? (History of science question)
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[QUOTE="Haelfix, post: 6835311, member: 4167"] A lot of anthropic predictions are posthoc. For instance, the value of the fine structure constant has to lie within a certain range for life and chemistry to be possible. I am not aware of many examples where this was inverted to make a prediction. The only (kinda/sorta) exception that I know of, other than Weinbergs CC observation was Fred Hoyles prediction about a new resonant state of carbon12 in stars (called the Hoyle state).. It should be noted that a lot of the anthropic principle stuff borders on tautology, so its always somewhat definition/philosophy dependent. [/QUOTE]
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