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Our universe seems strangely ''biophilic,'' or hospitable to life. Is this happenstance, providence, or coincidence? According to cosmologist Martin Rees, the answer depends on the answer to another question, the one posed by Einstein's famous remark: ''What intere...
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Rees, Martin, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Our Cosmic Habitat / Martin Rees. Core Textbook Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011] ©2001 1 online resource (224 p.) : 19 line illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue. Could God Have Made the World Any Differently? -- PART I. From Big Bang to Biospheres -- 1 Planets and Stars -- 2 Life and Intelligence -- 3 Atoms, Stars and Galaxies -- 4 Extragalactic Perspective -- 5 Pregalactic History -- 6 Black Holes and Time Machines -- PART II. The Beginning and the End -- 7 Deceleration or Acceleration? -- 8 The Long-Range Future -- 9 How Things Began: The First Millisecond -- PART III. Fundamentals and Conjectures -- 10 Cosmos and Microworld -- 11 Laws and Bylaws in the Multiverse -- APPENDIX. Scales of Structure -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Our universe seems strangely ''biophilic,'' or hospitable to life. Is this happenstance, providence, or coincidence? According to cosmologist Martin Rees, the answer depends on the answer to another question, the one posed by Einstein's famous remark: ''What interests me most is whether God could have made the world differently.'' This highly engaging book explores the fascinating consequences of the answer being ''yes.'' Rees explores the notion that our universe is just a part of a vast ''multiverse,'' or ensemble of universes, in which most of the other universes are lifeless. What we call the laws of nature would then be no more than local bylaws, imposed in the aftermath of our own Big Bang. In this scenario, our cosmic habitat would be a special, possibly unique universe where the prevailing laws of physics allowed life to emerge. Rees begins by exploring the nature of our solar system and examining a range of related issues such as whether our universe is or isn't infinite. He asks, for example: How likely is life? How credible is the Big Bang theory? Rees then peers into the long-range cosmic future before tracing the causal chain backward to the beginning. He concludes by trying to untangle the paradoxical notion that our entire universe, stretching 10 billion light-years in all directions, emerged from an infinitesimal speck. As Rees argues, we may already have intimations of other universes. But the fate of the multiverse concept depends on the still-unknown bedrock nature of space and time on scales a trillion trillion times smaller than atoms, in the realm governed by the quantum physics of gravity. Expanding our comprehension of the cosmos, Our Cosmic Habitat will be read and enjoyed by all those--scientists and nonscientists alike--who are as fascinated by the universe we inhabit as is the author himself. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Cosmology. SCIENCE / Astronomy. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691114774 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400841073 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400841073 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400841073.jpg |
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