Anthropics and Myopics: Conditional Probabilities and the Cosmological Constant

2); 2) ((1) CERCA; (2) Dept of Astronomy; Case Western Reserve University; CWRU); Glenn Starkman (1; Irit Maor (1); Lawrence Krauss (1

arxiv: 0709.0502 · v2 · submitted 2007-09-04 · ✦ hep-th · astro-ph· gr-qc· hep-ph

Anthropics and Myopics: Conditional Probabilities and the Cosmological Constant

Irit Maor (1) , Lawrence Krauss (1 , 2) , Glenn Starkman (1 , 2) ((1) CERCA , Case Western Reserve University , (2) Dept of Astronomy , CWRU) This is my paper

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keywords constantcosmologicalanthropicanthropicsargueargumentsassumptionscausal

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We re-examine claims that anthropic arguments provide an explanation for the observed smallness of the cosmological constant, and argue that correlations between the cosmological constant value and the existence of life can be demonstrated only under restrictive assumptions. Causal effects are more subtle to uncover.

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