At 8:06 PM -0400 10/20/03, Levin wrote:

Any theory that contradicts the Anthropic Principle (AP) would also
contradict observations and so could be rejected without any
Principle. So, AP cannot help with selection of theories or
predicting unknown facts.

Fred Hoyle's prediction of a previously unknown resonance in the
[12]C nucleus used an anthropic argument; the resonance was found.
[Hoyle, Dunbar, Wensel and Whaling, _Phys. Rev._ 92, 649 (1953)].

Does this count as "predicting an unknown fact?" I think so.

Bill

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