Screams for Explanation: Finetuning and Naturalness in the Foundations of Physics

2018/01/07 by S. Hossenfelder · 1 voice · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #gr-qc #hep-ph #hep-th #physics.hist-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s11229-019-02377-5

published as Synthese (2019) · 17 pages, no figures, typos fixed

arxiv published 2018/01/07 · arxiv created 2018/01/10 · arxiv updated 2019/12/02

Abstract

We critically analyze the rationale of arguments from finetuning and naturalness in particle physics and cosmology. Some other numerological coincidences are also discussed.

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