Reasons to Believe

Fine Structure Constant Design

July 1, 2003
By Dr. Hugh Ross

TNRTB Archive - Retained for reference information

Researchers discover that for big bang nucleosynthesis to produce the elements essential for physical life the value of the fine structure constant must be fine-tuned to within 0.05 percent of its actual value.

Kazuhide Ichikawa and M. Kawasaki, “Constraining the Variation of the Coupling Constants with Big Bang Nucleosynthesis,” Physical Review D, 65 (2002), id 123511.

RTB articles: Anthropic Principle article in Facts for Faith

RTB video: Journey Toward Creation, 2nd edition

RTB book: The Creator and the Cosmos, 3rd edition; appendices in Lights in the Sky and Little Green Men

Subjects: Big Bang

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Dr. Hugh Ross

Reasons to Believe emerged from my passion to research, develop, and proclaim the most powerful new reasons to believe in Christ as Creator, Lord, and Savior and to use those new reasons to reach people for Christ. Read more about Dr. Hugh Ross.