The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life?

by Paul C.W. Davies

weak anthropic principle. When Brandon Carter introduced the term thirty years ago, he also explored the notion of a strong anthropic principle.2 It was later

Likewise the Cambridge biologist Simon Conway Morris says that, ‘there is, if you like, seeded into the initiation of the universe itself the inevitability of intelligence’.5 The strong anthropic principle receives some support from the widespread