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  1. LegionOnomaMoi

    Fine Tuning argument / The best argument for the existence of God

    It isn't Zeno's paradox. At all. It isn't even related, as Zeno's paradox involves only countably infinite sets. The issue with physical theories based on real numbers is that almost all real numbers are non-computable and even more are irrational, while the totality of all possible measured...
  2. LegionOnomaMoi

    Fine Tuning argument / The best argument for the existence of God

    I don't use it in this sense, nor do other physicists I work with, is it used this way in the physics literature. Granted, I'm not a cosmologist. I tend to use the term in the manner found more frequently in particle physics, HEP, and quantum foundations literature, because in particular here...
  3. LegionOnomaMoi

    Fine Tuning argument / The best argument for the existence of God

    A principle point behind such models is to obtain universes in which indeed life is rare, at least in the sense that the parameter space of said models entails that most universes lack the capacity for large-scale structures necessary for the basic "building blocks" of organic chemistry. And...
  4. LegionOnomaMoi

    Fine Tuning argument / The best argument for the existence of God

    We don’t. For example, almost all the laws of physics you might refer to posit that all virtually all measurable quantities and physical properties take values in a continuum, are located within a space with the same cardinality, or both. Moreover, these mathematical structures are...
  5. LegionOnomaMoi

    Fine Tuning argument / The best argument for the existence of God

    What do you mean “listened to”? Do you just plug your ears at conferences and symposia? Do you get someone else to read through e.g., APS journals in order to make sure you skip papers devoted to solutions and/or implications of known fine-tuning problems (or new fine-tuning problems)? More...
  6. LegionOnomaMoi

    Fine Tuning argument / The best argument for the existence of God

    "Taking a quantum of super compressed unified energy" is at best something borrowed from popular physics oversimplifications and is more likely just nonsense. Fine-tuning is a fact: “The fine-tuning of our existence, as encoded in our current best (effective) physical theories—such as the...
  7. LegionOnomaMoi

    Fine Tuning argument / The best argument for the existence of God

    On this, see below and references therein (I can provide the more complete in-text citations if desired) “Pure geometrical Λ and vacuum energy have the same dynamical behaviour in GR. Estimating the latter via QFT calculations and comparing the result with the observed value leads to the famous...
  8. LegionOnomaMoi

    Fine Tuning argument / The best argument for the existence of God

    And what I am trying to explain to you is that the current approach in cosmology and theoretical physics is to claim that based upon the unnaturally finely tuned nature of the universe (finely-tuned in just such a way that one finds in the literature not infrequent references to a "designer" or...
  9. LegionOnomaMoi

    Fine Tuning argument / The best argument for the existence of God

    Perhaps not, and in fact I would say it isn't. But it is a similar non-explanation as the designer argument. It is a matter of fitting subjective conceptions of chance with certain aesthetic, metaphysical considerations. This is without getting into the issue of the interpretation of...
  10. LegionOnomaMoi

    Fine Tuning argument / The best argument for the existence of God

    Technical note: for so-called continuous distributions in probability as well as in the main for mixed distributions, the probability of any singleton is 0. To make this clearer: imagine we are trying to calculate the probability that a process will stop at a particular instant of time in some...
  11. LegionOnomaMoi

    Fine Tuning argument / The best argument for the existence of God

    It is exceedingly complicated and is an outstanding problem in cosmology, HEP, and BSM physics. Not the "life-creator" part so much, and certainly not with respect to evolution, but rather with fine-tuning in the universe and the precision required for the parameters in our models to allow a...
  12. LegionOnomaMoi

    Fine Tuning argument / The best argument for the existence of God

    It is highly meaningful and nontrivial for theoretical physicists and cosmologists as well as those in foundation physics, HEP, astrophysics, etc. To take one example, here is literally textbook physics written by Carroll (the guy featured elsewhere in this thread as a steadfast opponent of the...
  13. LegionOnomaMoi

    Fine Tuning argument / The best argument for the existence of God

    It depends. For example, the free parameters of the standard model lack any theoretical justification or explanation but are extracted through the standard regularization and renormalization schemes. One crucial problem, both from an operational perspective and a theoretical one, is incredible...
  14. LegionOnomaMoi

    Fine Tuning argument / The best argument for the existence of God

    It is nothing at all like this. It is, rather, so vastly improbable, so unnaturally artificial and contrived that it is the primary reason so many cosmologists and theoretical physics justify and defend multiverse cosmologies and similar mainly metaphysical speculation they argue to be...
  15. LegionOnomaMoi

    What is naturalism?

    From section 3.2: The World is Not Causally Closed: "In the weakest conception, causal closure means that 'every physical phenomenon that has a sufficient cause has a sufficient physical cause' (Montero, 2003, p. 174). According to Kim (1998, p. 40) another way of stating the principle of...
  16. LegionOnomaMoi

    How much can we trust science?

    It doesn't. It usually means that you've computed something misleading and largely meaningless. P-values can be easily and readily made as significant as desired by e.g., enlarging the sample size or simply choosing a different model, as all they can possibly ever do is relate to the probability...
  17. LegionOnomaMoi

    How much can we trust science?

    It doesn't really work in particle physics. It's just that the inherent problems with significant testing (plus some additional ones) were more readily apparent in HEP and as an unfortunate consequence the experimentalists and consulting statisticians changed little of what they had already...
  18. LegionOnomaMoi

    Antireligious rule of Science

    This is almost never true. Variables in scientific fields are generally kinds of functions and therefore allow for the construction of models or similar frameworks. Constants are generally impossible to achieve or even meaningless outside of some natural sciences, and a fair number of known and...
  19. LegionOnomaMoi

    Antireligious rule of Science

    That's why you can use the internet and a computer to post here. Because when scientists develop and test frameworks and corresponding technogologies, we can safely assume that algorithms will be implemented reliably on devices meant to do so barring natural error. When something like imaging...
  20. LegionOnomaMoi

    Physicists Just Found a New Quantum Paradox That Casts Doubt on a Pillar of Reality

    This is false. In particular, many of the most recent trends in contemporary quantum (foundation) physics have been quite the opposite. Qbism, Relational QM, quantum information-theoretic approaches, etc., have all emerged more recently and on the cusp of cutting edge quantum measurement schemes...
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