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SUMMARY:The best of all possible worlds - Prof. Michael Duff
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CONTACT:Mark Wong
DESCRIPTION:According to Brandon Carter's 1960 "Anthropic Principle'' : If
  the laws of physics were slightly different\, life could not have formed.
  Our existence hinges on a delicate fine tuning of the constants of Nature
 . The masses of the subatomic particles\, the strengths of the forces betw
 een them\, the expansion rate of the universe are "just right'' for life. 
 This has been dubbed the ``Goldilocks Enigma''. The traditional goal of th
 eoretical physics is to seek a set of laws that not only describe the univ
 erse but do so uniquely. But I will describe how recent advances in Cosmol
 ogy\, String Theory and M-theory have led physicists to abandon this Unive
 rse in favor of the Multiverse.
LOCATION:Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre\, Chemistry Department
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