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Can we measure naturalness?

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The Physics of Fine-Tuning
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In the second part of their discussion, Pedro Ferreira and Jerome Martin consider ways to build the naturalness of an inflationary model into our expectations for observing it.
They debate the feasibility of measuring the degree to which an inflationary model is inspired by considerations from other parts of physics, and describe the applicability of Bayesian methods when we have background knowledge. This discussion was conducted at the University of Oxford on March 15, 2017.

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The Physics of Fine-Tuning
People
Pedro Ferreira
Jerome Martin
Keywords
fine-tuning
Physics
cosmology
philosophy of physics
inflation
bayesian statistics
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 04/04/2017
Duration: 00:07:46

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