{"id":5329,"date":"2016-09-20T11:28:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T18:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/?p=5329"},"modified":"2016-09-26T08:10:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T15:10:17","slug":"ratio-christi-talk-on-fine-tuning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/ratio-christi-talk-on-fine-tuning\/","title":{"rendered":"Ratio Christi talk on Fine Tuning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you may recall that last February I gave a talk on <a title=\"Ratio Christi talk [UPDATED]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/ratio-christi-talk\/\">Science and the Resurrection<\/a> to Ratio Christi, an apologetics club that meets at Rutgers University in New Brunswick.<\/p>\n<p>Well, this Monday (the 26th) I&#8217;m giving a talk on &#8220;Explanations for Fine Tuning&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Were the laws of physics selected to produce life? This talk will<br \/>\ndescribe several examples of fundamental physics parameters which seem to be &#8220;fine-tuned&#8221;, i.e. taking on special values that permit life to exist. We can use techniques from modern particle physics, such as the &#8220;renormalization group flow&#8221;, to help decide which claims of fine-tuning are real, and which are only apparent. Some examples, such as the Cosmological Constant Problem, seem very unlikely to have any normal scientific explanation. I will argue that the only plausible solutions involve God or a multiverse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Any of you who are in the area are welcome to attend.\u00a0 This one is at 9 pm at the College Ave Student Center, room 411C.\u00a0 For more details, see their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1089210517793021\/\">Facebook page<\/a>.\u00a0 Please note that the location and time are <strong>different<\/strong> from my previous talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you may recall that last February I gave a talk on Science and the Resurrection to Ratio Christi, an apologetics club that meets at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. Well, this Monday (the 26th) I&#8217;m giving a talk on &#8220;Explanations for Fine Tuning&#8221;: Were the laws of physics selected to produce life? This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5329"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5333,"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329\/revisions\/5333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}