{"id":90920,"date":"2023-01-25T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T21:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=90920"},"modified":"2023-01-31T12:34:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T16:34:08","slug":"fine-tuning-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/fine-tuning-of-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Fine-Tuning of the Universe: The Anatomy of a Scientific Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How is it that the universe&#8217;s parameters are &#8220;just right&#8221; to support life? Can science ever solve this mystery?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his book <em>A Short History of Nearly Everything<\/em>, Bill Bryson discusses a few of the unknowns and controversies that still exist in the sciences. One of those is the &#8220;fine-tuning problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Continue reading to learn about the fine-tuning of the universe and why it has many scientists scratching their heads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-fine-tuning-of-the-universe\">Fine-Tuning of the Universe<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One unsolved question in science is the fine-tuning of the universe: Many parameters of the universe seem to have been optimized to just the right values that would support human life. For example, if the initial expansion rate of the universe had been just a little faster, matter would never have clumped up enough to form stars and galaxies, which are necessary for life. But if it had been just a little slower, the universe would have collapsed back in on itself before solar systems like ours could form.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/a-brief-history-of-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>A Brief History of Time<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em> physicist Stephen Hawking explains how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/a-brief-history-of-time\/question-3-2#the-inflationary-big-bang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the \u2018inflationary\u2019 version of the big bang theory largely explains why the expansion rate of the universe is what it is<\/a>. But Hawking, too, discusses the fine-tuning problem and acknowledges that there are other factors that inflation theory, by itself, doesn\u2019t explain.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet, scientists have not identified any physical principle or mechanism that would constrain all these parameters to have just the right values to eventually support life on Earth\u2014aside from the fact that, if any of these parameters were different, we wouldn\u2019t be here to wonder why. Bryson notes that some scientists postulate there must be an infinite number of universes, each differing just slightly from one another, but other scientists dismiss this idea as unscientific, since, by definition, it is impossible to observe other universes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: Stephen Hawking is one of the scientists who dismisses the infinite-number-of-universes explanation. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/a-brief-history-of-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>A Brief History of Time<\/em><\/a>, Hawking suggests that when a theory that unifies general relativity with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/quantum-mechanics-theory\/\">quantum mechanics<\/a> is found, it will likely solve the fine-tuning problem by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/a-brief-history-of-time\/question-3-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">showing that the parameters in question are not really arbitrary<\/a>. Because of the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/unified-theory-of-everything\/\">unifying theory<\/a> would also have to be probabilistic, and Hawking expects that it would indicate the \u201cfine-tuned\u201d parameters have a high probability of adopting their observed values.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bryson himself conjectures that maybe the answer is that life evolved to match the conditions that existed. So the universe isn\u2019t fine-tuned for us\u2014we\u2019ve been fine-tuned for it by millions of years of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/natural-selection-in-evolution\/\">natural selection<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: The scientific community probably views Bryson\u2019s suggestion as a limited solution to the problem. It might explain why parameters like Earth\u2019s chemical composition and climate seem uniquely suited to supporting Earth\u2019s life forms, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.1304212111#sec-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">there are limits to the range of conditions that could conceivably support <em>any<\/em> form of life<\/a>. Deviations beyond a certain range could create conditions outside these limits.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How is it that the universe&#8217;s parameters are &#8220;just right&#8221; to support life? Can science ever solve this mystery? In his book A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson discusses a few of the unknowns and controversies that still exist in the sciences. 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