Anthropic Ideology Throughout the Ages

The Inverse Anthropic Principle

In the Middle Age, official science said wrongly we are in a very special location, but now it says we are living a special epoch. Indeed, in the famous article of Carr and Rees, 'The anthropic principle and the structure of the physical world', published by Nature (278, 605-612 (1979)) one reads “All these scales can be deduced directly from known physics except the mass and length scale of th...

The Anthropic Principle Revisited

The usage of the anthropic principle in modern cosmology is reviewed. It is argued that its recent use to explain the observed values of cosmological parameters as most probable values for an ensemble of universes, is not justified. However, the anthropic principle can be invoked to argue that a vast number of universes must exist, in which the cosmological parameters and constants of nature ta...

Anthropic reasoning

Anthropic Principle

The human body is a constant flux of thousands of chemical/biological interactions and processes connecting molecules, cells, organs, and fluids, throughout the brain, body, and nervous system. Up until recently it was thought that all these interactions operated in a linear sequence, passing on information much like a runner passing the baton to the next runner. However, the latest findings in...

People, environment, disease and death: a medical geography of Britain throughout the ages

demographic information, opening up new and exciting issues of debate. We are now able to chart, with some confidence, the chronology of population change from the Black Death to the present day. Analyses of shifts in age-specific mortality, age at marriage, matemal mortality and a host of other demographic variables are helping to enrich our understanding of the past and to throw new light on ...