The Hard Fact of Life in Big Physics City

How similar is the fine-tuning of our universe to probabilistic reasoning we use and understand? Simon Friederich and Erik Curiel go through a series of examples. In the third part of their discussion, Simon Friederich and Erik Curiel go over the connection between a widely recognized fallacy--the Gambler’s Fallacy--and the fine-tuning argument. How similar is the fine-tuning argument for the multiverse to common ways of reasoning from observations to likelihoods? This discussion was conducted at the University of Oxford on October 6, 2017.

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The Hard Fact of Life in Big Physics City is an episode from The Physics of Fine-Tuning by Oxford University.

This episode is 14:56 long.

This episode was published on Apr 24, 2018.

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