2002/11/07 by Andrei Linde, Linde, Andrei
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #astro-ph #gr-qc #hep-ph #hep-th #physics.pop-ph #physics.space-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0211048
35 pages, 2 figs., to appear in "Science and Ultimate Reality: From Quantum to Cosmos", honoring John Wheeler's 90th birthday. J. D. Barrow, P.C.W. Davies, & C.L. Harper eds. Cambridge University Press (2003)
arxiv created 2002/11/08 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
Anthropic principle can help us to understand many properties of our world. However, for a long time this principle seemed too metaphysical and many scientists were ashamed to use it in their research. I describe here a justification of the weak anthropic principle in the context of inflationary cosmology and suggest a possible way to justify the strong anthropic principle using the concept of the multiverse.