What is the anthropic principle and why are physicists fighting about it?

Broadcast: Midday, 02/07/2007, 12:06 p.m.

For years physicists have been hurling insults at one another over a concept called "the anthropic principle." Stanford University physicist Leonard Susskind explained what the fuss is about in a Jan. 24 speech at the Commonwealth Club of California.

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