Risky anthropic reasoning in cosmology. For or against an evolutional nature of the Universe?
Abstract
In contemporary cosmology, from the creation of the General Theory of Relativity to the second half of the twentieth century, the main task of cosmologists was to construct and test cosmological models of the Universe.References
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