The accidental universe: Science's crisis of faith—By Alan P. Lightman (Harper's Magazine)

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2011/12/0083720

This is a very good survey of new cosmological thinking.

I have been very suspicious of the anthropic principle for a long time; I have mostly rejected it. The finely-tuned universe has been equally suspect, to me. Now I have hope that these ideas are unnecessary. Any number of other universes probably are most probably not properly tuned to support life as we know it. I also find that the "final goal" of science to be possibly illusory to be quite amusing and satisfying.

Sunset and Ladron Peak

Testing out my new Canon EOS Rebel T2i. Photo is unprocessed by any photo editting program.