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Sciama's argument on life in a random universe: Distinguishing apples from oranges
Zhi-Wei Wang, Samuel L. Braunstein
Dennis Sciama argued that the existence of life depended on many quantities, the fundamental constants, so in a random universe life should be highly unlikely. However, without ful…
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Life in a random universe: Sciama's argument reconsidered
Zhi-Wei Wang, Samuel L. Braunstein
Random sampling in high dimensions has successfully been applied to phenomena as diverse as nuclear resonances, neural networks and black hole evaporation. Here we revisit an elega…