[KenGee (Kenith Gee)]

The Sky at night is a great mag, Pommy Mags tend to be and Patrick More is a legend. One of the sections they have is for readers to write in questions they would like to have answered. One of the questions was about the Goldilocks enigma. Better know as the fine-tuning problem in some circles of cosmology. It's a question that can quickly divide groups. Now it is a interesting topic and I realise they have limited space, however the person replying basically said there was only two possible answer to the question either this universe is just one in a multiverse that just happens to have the right conditions or... The Universe was design like that.
Not only didn’t I like the reduction of the problem to that I didn’t like reference to intelligent design. Given that intelligent design is a well designed (Ha Ha) well-funded attack on science, as we know it, I was somewhat confused as to why a science-based magazine would give them such footing.

The fact is there are quite a few possible answers to the question. I think people can have very different views on what reason means. There is a reason for everything but that doesn’t need to suggest purpose.

The Multiverse answer seems to come from the many worlds interpretation of quantum physics, whenever an event occurs that can have two or more out comes then they all happen!! The universe splits into two or more copies of itself with one having one outcome in it while the alterative is played out in the other. This to me is where theoretical physic needs to get out more.