The Logical Origin of Fine-Tuning Problems
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The fundamental parameters of nature appear extraordinarily fine-tuned for the existence of long-lived structures. This paper proposes that this apparent fine-tuning is not a dynamical puzzle but the natural outcome of a universal selection rule called the Accelerator Principle (also termed the Anti-Anthropic Principle). In high-energy regions of the early universe, acting as a cosmic-scale particle accelerator, every configuration not strictly forbidden by logic, mathematics, or consistency is realized (plenitude). Only those configurations that produce stable, long-lived forever systems—structures that do not self-decay on cosmological timescales—survive as persistent reality. Our region of the universe (the observable universe) is necessarily one of these survivors.
The principle provides a unified, minimalist, observer-independent explanation for the cosmological constant problem, the hierarchy problem, the three-generation structure of the Standard Model, the string landscape, and generalized structural questions such as why gravity must be unshieldable. It replaces anthropic or multiverse reasoning with pure stability filtering grounded in well-tested high-energy physics and is shown to be equivalent to Logical Occam’s Razor expressed in physical terms. Except for the natural accelerator effects of the Big Bang itself and other high-energy spacetime regions, no new dynamical mechanisms or symmetries are required.
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- Preprint: 10.5281/zenodo.19491091 (DOI)