Our cosmic habitat / Martin Rees.

By:

Rees, Martin

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: [S.l.] : Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2003.Description: 224 p. ; 20 cmISBN:

0753814048 (paperback)
9780753814048 (paperback)

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Amazon.com

Summary: Our universe seems strangely 'biophilic,' or hospitable to life. Is this providence or coincidence? According to 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 centres on the fascinating consequences of the answer being 'yes'. Rees explores the notion that our universe is just 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 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Air University Central Library Islamabad	NFIC	523.01 REE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	P7830

Our universe seems strangely 'biophilic,' or hospitable to life. Is this providence or coincidence? According to 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 centres on the fascinating consequences of the answer being 'yes'. Rees explores the notion that our universe is just 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 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.

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Our cosmic habitat / Martin Rees.