Our Cosmic Habitat / / Martin Rees.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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