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# Are The Fundamental Constants Finely Tuned? | The Naturalness Problem
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/pbs-space-time/episode/are-the-fundamental-constants-finely-tuned-the-naturalness-problem-sr9ihv/
- Published: 2025-07-23T17:45:48.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-21T13:47:36.000Z
- Description: Did God have any choice in creating the world? So asked Albert Einstein
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: PBS Space Time, Season 11, Episode 7, #ZZZ_Episode_210de624-c891-48be-b8b3-bb18281e80e8, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_ae70f836-13b6-4c9d-b61f-99f7b8bc29eb, #v1.16

Did God have any choice in creating the world? So asked Albert Einstein. He was being poetic. What he really meant, was whether the universe could have been any other way. Could it have had different laws of physics, driven by different fundamental constants. Or is this one vast and complex universe the inevitable result of an inevitable and unique underlying principle, perhaps expressible as a su