{"id":187331,"date":"2024-04-13T22:23:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T03:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/lee-smolin-is-the-universe-fine-tuned-for-life-and-mind"},"modified":"2024-04-13T22:23:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T03:23:11","slug":"lee-smolin-is-the-universe-fine-tuned-for-life-and-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/lee-smolin-is-the-universe-fine-tuned-for-life-and-mind","title":{"rendered":"Lee Smolin \u2014 Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life and Mind?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TTKvW3l-dio?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If the deep laws of the universe had been ever so slightly different human beings wouldn\u2019t, and couldn\u2019t, exist. All explanations of this exquisite fine-tuning, obvious and not-so-obvious, have problems or complexities. Natural or supernatural, that is the question.<\/p>\n<p>Free access to Closer to Truth\u2019s library of 5,000 videos: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/376lkKN\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/376lkKN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch more interviews on fine tuning: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3BvzW7Q\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3BvzW7Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lee Smolin is an American theoretical physicist, a researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo. He is best known for his work in loop quantum gravity.<\/p>\n<p>Register for free at <a href=\"http:\/\/CTT.com\">CTT.com<\/a> for subscriber-only exclusives: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2GXmFsP\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2GXmFsP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Closer to Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world\u2019s greatest thinkers exploring humanity\u2019s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/lee-smolin-is-the-universe-fine-tuned-for-life-and-mind\">Continue reading \u201cLee Smolin \u2014 Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life and Mind?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the deep laws of the universe had been ever so slightly different human beings wouldn\u2019t, and couldn\u2019t, exist. All explanations of this exquisite fine-tuning, obvious and not-so-obvious, have problems or complexities. Natural or supernatural, that is the question. Free access to Closer to Truth\u2019s library of 5,000 videos: http:\/\/bit.ly\/376lkKN Watch more interviews on fine [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}