On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 1:23 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 10/20/2020 5:39 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 15 Oct 2020, at 20:56, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < > [email protected]> wrote: > > You should have read Vic Stenger's "The Fallacy of Fine Tuning". Vic > points out how many examples of fine tuning are mis-conceived...including > Hoyle's prediction of an excited state of carbon. Vic also points out the > fallacy of just considering one parameter when the parameter space is high > dimensional. > > But my general criticism of fine-tuning is two-fold. First, the concept > is not well defined. There is no apriori probability distribution over > possible values. If the possible values are infinite, then any realized > value is improbable. > > > > I don’t think so. That is why Kolmogorov defines a measure space by > forbidding infinite intersection of events. In the finite case the space of > events is the complete boolean structure coming from the subset of the set > of the possible results. In the infinite domain, the measure space os > defined by a strict subset. I miss perhaps something, but the axiomatic of > Kolmogorov has been invented to solve that “infinite number of value” > problem. > > > That's a non-answer. I was just using infinite (as physicists do) to mean > bigger than anything we're thinking of. Kolmogorov just shaped his > definition to make the mathematics simpler. There's nothing in Jason's > analyses that defines the variables as finite. Jason just helps jimself to > an intuition that a value between 7.5 and 7.7 is "fine-tuned". He didn't > first justify the finite interval. > I admit as much in the article. For most parameters, we don't understand the range or probability distribution for the constants. However, see my explanation for the cosmological constant, a value for which the theory can account for the expected range and probability distribution. Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CA%2BBCJUjSmciWLRn5ycTQQ44yLS-KwcNNPm80iZo3GZgQDzQm8w%40mail.gmail.com.
