On the Nature of Initial Conditions and Fundamental Parameters in Physics and Cosmology

Foundations of Science 17 (1):21-23 (2012)
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The cosmological theory of the author, discussed in (Greben in Found Sci 15(2):153–176, 2010 ), has a number of implications for the interpretation of initial conditions and the fine-tuning problem as discussed by Vidal (Found Sci 15(4):375–393, 2010a )

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