Fine-tuning (physics)

For other uses, see Fine-tuning (disambiguation), Tuning (disambiguation), and Adjustment (disambiguation).

In theoretical physics, fine-tuning is the process in which parameters of a model must be adjusted very precisely in order to fit with certain observations.

Theories requiring fine-tuning are regarded as problematic in the absence of a known mechanism to explain why the parameters happen to have precisely the observed values that they return. The heuristic rule that parameters in a fundamental physical theory should not be too fine-tuned is called naturalness.[1][2]

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