Editorial note to: Brandon Carter, Large number coincidences and the anthropic principle in cosmology

DOI10.1007/S10714-011-1257-8zbMATH Open1230.83102arXiv1105.2462OpenAlexW3121173612MaRDI QIDQ650139FDOQ650139

Authors: George F. R. Ellis 

Publication date: 25 November 2011

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This is an editorial note to accompany reprinting as a Golden Oldie in the Journal of General Relativity and Gravitation of the famous paper by Brandon Carter on the anthropic principle in cosmology cite{Car74}. This paper was presented at IAU Symposium No. 63, entitled Confrontation of cosmological theories with observational data, in 1973.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.2462

zbMATH Keywords

cosmologyGolden Oldieanthropic principleconfrontation of cosmological theories with observational dataworld ensemble

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03)

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