Tag: anthropic principle

• Thesis off-cuts: how special is our place in the Universe?

  

  Thanks to many hundreds of people making dedicated observations of the sky over many decades, we know that the majority of our Universe is comprised of two substances: dark matter and dark energy. Dark matter is an unknown type of matter, referred to as “dark” because it does not interact electromagnetically, meaning that it doesn’t…

  Natalie Hogg

  October 18, 2020

  PhD, Science

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