Anthropic landscape

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The anthropic landscape is the term coined by Lenny Susskind and used for a large number of different possible universes that are required for the anthropic principle. For example, the anthropic landscape represents a large number of vacua (ground states) of string theory. The number may be as large as 10⁵⁰⁰. The large degeneracy arises from different choices of Calabi-Yau manifolds and different values of generalized magnetic fluxes over different homology cycles.

The existence of the anthropic landscape remains a highly controversial idea.

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