Replacing Anthropy with entropy: Does it work?

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Probably not, because there are lots of manifestly unanthropic ways of producing entropy. We demonstrate that the Causal Entropic Principle (CEP), as a replacement for the anthropic principle to explain the properties of the observed universe, suffers from many of the same problems of adopting myopic assumptions in order to predict that various fundamental parameters take approximately the observed values. In particular, we demonstrate that four mechanisms -- black hole production, black hole decay, phase transitions, and dark matter annihilations or decays -- will manifestly change the conclusions of the CEP to predict that we should live in a universe quite different than the one in which we find ourselves.
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High Energy Physics - Theory, Astrophysics, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/209626

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https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.1015
 http://arxiv.org/abs/0812.1015

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