But in between I talked about the current state of CMB data, our own efforts to constrain the topology of the Universe, and the satellites, balloons and telescopes that we hope will improve our knowledge even further over the coming few years. Andrew, Paul Davies interpretation is very strong. In fact, he follows John Wheeler when it comes to causality, but have you ever considered what a real causality-accountable strong interpretation could mean to a theory of everything?... since it would explain why the forces cannot be unified, for one small example. I also went down the dangerous road of discussing anthropic arguments in cosmology I think that this is the problem, people are in strict willful denial of the evidence. Please read this short but highly relevant conversation: http://shamelesslyatheist.blogspot.com/2007/03/deepak-chopra-on-god-delusion-part-iv.html The LHC is on the verge of killing our best theories if it turns up nothing in the higgs range... and the smaller colliders are already pointing hard in this direction... yet, everyone is still SO sure of their assumptions about the anthropic principle.