2008/12/04 by Irit Maor, Maor, Irit, Thomas W. Kephart +7
Social Sciences · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0812.1015
openalex publication_date 2008/12/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Probably not, because there are lots of manifestly unanthropic ways of producing entropy. We demonstrate that the Causal Entropic Principle (CEP), as a replacement for the anthropic principle to explain the properties of the observed universe, suffers from many of the same problems of adopting myopic assumptions in order to predict that various fundamental parameters take approximately the observed values. In particular, we demonstrate that four mechanisms -- black hole production, black hole decay, phase transitions, and dark matter annihilations or decays -- will manifestly change the conclusions of the CEP to predict that we should live in a universe quite different than the one in which we find ourselves.