LIFE ON EARTH -- AN ACCIDENT? Chiral Symmetry and the Anthropic Principle
arXiv:1312.7550 · doi:10.1142/S0218301314610059
Abstract
I discuss the fine-tuning of the nuclear forces and in the formation of nuclei in the production of the elements in the Big Bang and in stars.
to appear in the proceedings of The Seventh International Symposium on Chiral Symmetry in Hadrons and Nuclei, Beihang Univ., China, Oct. 2013, 8 pp, 4 figs, uses ws-procs9x6.cls
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