Re: Meaning of "fine-tuning"

From: Bert Massie (bert@massie-labs.com)
Date: Thu Oct 19 2000 - 16:06:40 EDT

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    "George Andrews Jr." wrote:

    > Hi Doug;
    >
    > Its just a way of communicating the degree of precision found to be
    > necessary in the values of the fundamental constants in order for the
    > universe to be "precisely as it is observed to be." No need to read
    > anything else into the phrase. Nature is "in a habit" of fine tuning
    > its parameters

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    Please tell us about "Nature" and how it fine tunes things. I would be
    curious to hear about this.

    What is "Nature"? Sounds like it is some "person" or "force" or
    "intellegence" but I think you said this but did not mean it.

    So, what is this agent?

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    > - resulting in the evolution of orderly objects.
    >
    > Sincerely
    > George A.
    >



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