{"id":1384,"date":"2006-11-13T11:02:39","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T18:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2006-11-13T11:02:39","modified_gmt":"2006-11-13T18:02:39","slug":"anthropic-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/11\/13\/anthropic-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Jaffe has posted his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewjaffe.net\/blog\/2006\/11\/anthropic-answe.html\">review<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/static\/cs\/uk\/0\/errors\/404_noframes\/\">The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life?<\/a> by Paul Davies.  Which is an entertaining read, and got me to thinking (okay, what follows doesn&#8217;t exactly qualify as thinking, BTW)  So some physicists want to use anthropic principles as a solution to the problem of explaining the physics of our universe.  But why stop at explaining things like the value of the cosmological constant?  Why not go for something bigger, like the question quantum foundations people love: &#8220;why quantum theory?&#8221;  So a challenge: derive quantum theory from the anthropic principle.  Do that and I might even begin to believe that the anthropic principle actually has some value beyond making me shout out in pain when reading anthropic arguments \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Jaffe has posted his review of The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life? by Paul Davies. Which is an entertaining read, and got me to thinking (okay, what follows doesn&#8217;t exactly qualify as thinking, BTW) So some physicists want to use anthropic principles as a solution to the problem of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/11\/13\/anthropic-challenge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anthropic Challenge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-quantum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}