A commonplace of cosmologists who argue the anthropic golden rule* is the assumption that if any or a few of the constants of nature took on an even slightly variant value, life could not have evolved — perhaps even stars and galaxies would not form. Science News reports on a new calculation showing that, to the contrary, star formation could happen in up to one-quarter of universes with dissimilar values of three weighty


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document.write("") constants. "In fact, all universes can support the existence of stars, on situation that the definition of star is interpreted broadly," said the researcher, Fred Adams. "...calculations suggest that, contrary to some before




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document.write("") claims, stars are not only common in our cosmos but are also ablaze in myriad other universes, where the laws of physics may be drastically different... Had Adams found that the range of parameters that allowed for stars was very small, that would have suggested that the laws of physics in our universe have been 'fine-tuned' to allow for star formation... Instead, Adams' study shows that our universe doesn't seem particularly special in that regard."

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