The physical properties of the cosmos appear to be fine-tuned for the complexity necessary for life, leading some to conclude that ours is but one of many universes in what is known as the multiverse. But just how fine-tuned are we, and just how sterile is the rest of the multiverse? In this talk, we’ll explore the notion of fine-tuning, and show how tweaking some of the physical laws would be disastrous for life, but others would leave us relatively unscathed. We will find that fine-tuning remains an unsolved problem in physics, and we might be faced with the issue that it may never be solved, leaving us with some interesting philosophical conundrums, especially in terms of the way we do science.
When
Thu Apr 4, 2019 4am – 5:30am Coordinated Universal Time
