Privileged Planet (eBook)

How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery

Guillermo Gonzalez, Jay W. Richards (Autoren)

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2004 | 1. Auflage
464 Seiten
Regnery Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-59698-707-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Earth. The Final Frontier
Contrary to popular belief, Earth is not an insignificant blip on the universe's radar. Our world proves anything but average in Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards' The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery.
But what exactly does Earth bring to the table? How does it prove its worth among numerous planets and constellations in the vastness of the Milky Way? In The Privileged Planet, you'll learn about the world's:
life-sustaining capabilities
water and its miraculous makeup
protection by the planetary giants
And how our planet came into existence in the first place.

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The Provocative Classic The Privileged Planet in a Fully Revised, 20th Anniversary Edition! Are we just an accident of cosmic evolution? Is Earth a ';lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark' as the late Carl Sagan put it? Or is there more to the story? In this provocative book, Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards marshal a staggering array of scientific evidence to counter the modern dogma that Earth is nothing more than the winner of a blind cosmic lottery. When The Privileged Planet was first published in 2004,it garnered both praise and rage. But its argument has stood the test of time.In this completely revised 20th anniversary edition, Gonzalez and Richards show how thousands of discoveries of extrasolar planets over the last two decades have only strengthened their case. They take readers on a mind-expanding journey through our solar system and beyond. Along the way, they explore the mystery of total solar eclipses, the crucial role of water and carbon, the fine-tuning of physics that makes advanced life possible, and the beginning of cosmic time. From our cozy blue planet to the edge of the known universe, they show how earthlike planets are exquisitely fit not only to sustain life but to provide the best platform to discover the hidden wonders of the cosmos. The Privileged Planetcompels us to reconsider our place in the universe. Far from a cosmic fluke, our world is ingeniously designed not just for life but for discovery.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2004
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Weltraum / Astronomie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 1-59698-707-3 / 1596987073
• ISBN-13: 978-1-59698-707-4 / 9781596987074