https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/hep-th_0602091/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11162055urn:hackerpapers:mention:hep-th_0602091:11162055Tue, 23 Feb 2016 20:29:14 GMT<p>Another alternative was proposed by Hawking &amp; Hertog (Phys Rev D, 2006, see below): walk the present values surface back to a superposition of possible universes and study the mechanisms that generate probabilities near one. That then is their way of asking about the degree of fine-tuning, with the anthropic principle being recasta as a constraint on the set of possible consistent histories. H&amp;H spend a lot of time comparing themselves to the approach of selecting an initial values surface in the early universe and marching it forward; they more or less do the same but flip the direction of…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/hep-th_0602091/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>hep-th