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Nature 439, 10-12 (5 January 2006) | doi:10.1038/439010a; Published online 4 January 2006
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Our Universe: Outrageous fortune
Geoff Brumfiel1
- Geoff Brumfiel is Nature's physical sciences Washington correspondent.
Abstract
A growing number of cosmologists and string theorists suspect the form of our Universe is little more than a coincidence. Are these harmless thought experiments, or a challenge to science itself? Geoff Brumfiel investigates.
Why are we here? It's a question that has troubled philosophers, theologians and those who've had one drink too many.
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