anthropic principle
Britishnoun
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However, I think it is a total cop-out for physicists to use the anthropic principle to explain why the laws of physics are the way they are.
From Scientific American • Feb. 1, 2020
The first result — the anthropic principle — has been accepted by physicists for 43 years.
From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2016
The idea that physical laws must be the way they are because otherwise we could not be here to measure them is called the anthropic principle.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
The anthropic principle suggests that in some sense we are observing a special kind of universe; if the universe were different, we could never have come to exist.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
One can answer this on the basis of the weak anthropic principle.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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