God, the Big Bang & the fortunate universe

Podcast: God Forbid · ABC Australia

Opublikowano: 2026-10-23

We live in a universe that sustains life – but what are the chances of that? And scientists now believe that if the laws of physics were different by just a fraction – our universe would be either empty, simple, or long ago extinct. If the strength of gravity or the mass of an electron was different by even the tiniest amount, the universe as we know it would not exist. So tiny even that the difference itself is almost beyond comprehension. Why has this cosmic fine tuning come about? The philosophical and even r...