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Isn't the fine tuning argument ad hoc?

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Isn't the fine tuning argument ad hoc?
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RE: Isn't the fine tuning argument ad hoc?
July 26, 2013 at 4:04 pm (This post was last modified: July 26, 2013 at 4:05 pm by Faith No More.)
(July 26, 2013 at 2:48 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: To the best of my knowledge, multiple universes were not originally propsed as a solution to fine-tuning, multiple universes would be a consequence if certain other physics hypotheses turn out to be true.

I'm reading "The Fabric of the Cosmos" by Brian Greene, in which the author said that the multiverse theory was proposed as an explanation for quantum probability. If I remember correctly, it was proposed that when a particle is observed, the universes "branch off" with one existing for each point that particle could be at, and we simply "continue" through one of those universes.
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Isn't the fine tuning argument ad hoc?

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RE: Isn't the fine tuning argument ad hoc? - by genkaus - July 26, 2013 at 9:21 am
RE: Isn't the fine tuning argument ad hoc? - by genkaus - July 26, 2013 at 11:45 am
RE: Isn't the fine tuning argument ad hoc? - by genkaus - July 31, 2013 at 1:50 am
RE: Isn't the fine tuning argument ad hoc? - by Faith No More - July 26, 2013 at 4:04 pm
RE: Isn't the fine tuning argument ad hoc? - by Chas - July 26, 2013 at 10:04 am
RE: Isn't the fine tuning argument ad hoc? - by Chas - July 26, 2013 at 6:12 pm
RE: Isn't the fine tuning argument ad hoc? - by genkaus - August 4, 2013 at 6:12 pm

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