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Our Cosmic Habitat - Lord Martin Rees

Our Cosmic Habitat

Buch | Hardcover
224 Seiten
2001
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-08926-3 (ISBN)
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Our universe seems strangely biophilic, or hospitable to life. Is this happenstance, providence, or coincidence? 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.
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 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.
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Martin Rees is Royal Society Research Professor at Cambridge University, Astronomer Royal of Great Britain, and author, most recently, of the bestselling Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe.

Zusatzinfo 19 line illus.
Verlagsort New Jersey
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Gewicht 425 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10 0-691-08926-4 / 0691089264
ISBN-13 978-0-691-08926-3 / 9780691089263
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