The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life?
Autor Paul Daviesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 iul 2007
It's not too hot, it's not too cold, and its forces act together in a way that's just right: why does the universe seem so perfectly tailor-made for life to exist?
Paul Davies, one of the world's most acclaimed science writers, shows how everything from the humble carbon atom to the speed of light and the laws of physics themselves interact. He asks: is there a theory of everything within our grasp? If there was a big bang, what happened before it? Is there on universe or many? Could we exist within an endless time loop?
'This is popular science as home to the really big questions'
IndependentBooks of the Year
'Beautifully judged'
Guardian
'Britain's most eminent cosmologist ... Davies is effortlessly at home in the scale of the impossibly large, hundreds of billions of miles'
Observer
'He leads the reader gently by the hand through the basics of what we are sure we understand about space, time and the universe'
John Gribbin
'Paul Davies is undoubtedly one of the most important modern scientific authors ... his most significant contribution to date'
Patrick Moore
Paul Daviesis Director of the BEYOND Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science, and co-Director of the Cosmology Initiative, both at Arizona State University. An internationally-acclaimed physicist, writer and broadcaster, Davies is the author of some twenty award-winning books, includingThe Eerie Silence:Searching for Ourselves in the Universe, The Goldilocks Enigma:Why is the Universe Just Right for Life?andThe Mind of God: Science and the Search for Ultimate Meaning.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141023267
ISBN-10: 0141023260
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: col. Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141023260
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: col. Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Paul
Davies
has
achieved
an
international
reputation
for
his
ability
to
explain
the
significance
of
advanced
scientific
ideas
in
simple
language.
He
is
the
author
of
some
twenty
books,
includingSuperforce,God
and
the
New
Physics,The
Mind
of
God,The
Last
Three
Minutes,Are
We
Alone?andHow
to
Build
a
Time
Machine.
Paul
Davies
has
also
written
and
presented
a
number
of
TV
and
radio
programmes
and
has
won
the
prestigious
Templeton
Prize,
the
world's
largest
award
for
intellectual
endeavour,
and
a
Glaxo
Science
Writers'
Fellowship.
Recenzii
"Paul
Davies'
Cosmic
Jackpot
is
a
truly
mesmerizing
book,
no
matter
which
you
universe
you
may
inhabit!"
--Michio
Kaku,
prof.
of
theoretical
physics,
author
of
Hyperspace
and
Parallel
Worlds
Cuprins
Preface
and
Acknowledgments
ix
A
Note
on
Numbers
xv
1.
The
Big
Questions
1
2.
The
Universe
Explained
18
3.
How
the
Universe
Began
49
4.
What
the
Universe
Is
Made
of
and
How
It
All
Holds
Together
85
5.
The
Lure
of
Complete
Unification
103
6.
Dark
Forces
of
the
Cosmos
116
7.
A
Universe
Fit
for
Life
129
8.
Does
a
Multiverse
Solve
the
Goldilocks
Enigma?
151
9.
Intelligent
and
Not-So-Intelligent
Design
191
10.
How
Come
Existence?
222
Afterword:
Ultimate
Explanations
261
Notes
273
Bibliography
293
Index
297
Descriere
Descriere de la o altă ediție sau format:
In
the
successor
to
his
provocative
bestseller
The
Mind
of
God,
the
cosmologist
Paul
Davies
tackles
another
big
question:
Why
does
the
universe
seem
so
well
suited
for
life?
One
popular
explanation
is
the
“multiverse
theory,”
which
sounds
like
it
came
straight
from
a
science
fiction
plot.
It
posits
that
our
universe
is
just
one
of
an
infinite
number
of
universes--each
slightly
different.
Only
in
those
rare
universes
where
things
are
accidentally
“just
right”
for
life
could
observers
emerge
to
puzzle
over
the
fact.
In The Goldilocks Enigma, Davies ponders this and other seemingly bizarre answers to the grand question of existence. He offers lucid descriptions of the science behind these theories and delights in their philosophical implications. Once again, Davies invites us to think about the cosmos and our place within it in new and thrilling ways.
In The Goldilocks Enigma, Davies ponders this and other seemingly bizarre answers to the grand question of existence. He offers lucid descriptions of the science behind these theories and delights in their philosophical implications. Once again, Davies invites us to think about the cosmos and our place within it in new and thrilling ways.