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Cosmologist Lee Smolin offers a startling new theory of the universe that is at once elegant, comprehensive, and radically different from anything proposed before. In The Life of the Cosmos, Smolin cuts the Gordian knot of cosmology with a simple, powerful idea: "The underlying structure of our...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smolin, Lee, 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Temas:
Cosmology.
Cosmologie.
cosmology.
SCIENCE > Cosmology.
Cosmology
Kosmologie
Cosmologia.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • PART 1: THE CRISIS IN FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS: Light and life
  • The logic of atomism
  • The miracle of the stars
  • The dream of unification
  • The lessons of string theory
  • PART 2: AN ECOLOGY OF SPACE AND TIME: Are the laws of physics universal?
  • Did the universe evolve?
  • Detective work
  • The ecology of the galaxy
  • Games and galaxies
  • PART 3: THE ORGANIZATION OF THE COSMOS: What is life?
  • The cosmology of an interesting universe
  • The flower and the dodecahedron
  • Philosophy, religion, and cosmology
  • Beyond the anthropic principle
  • PART 4: EINSTEIN'S LEGACY: Space and time in the new cosmology
  • The road from Newton to Einstein
  • The meaning of Einstein's theory of relativity
  • The meaning of the quantum
  • PART 5: EINSTEIN'S REVENGE: Cosmology and the quantum
  • A pluralistic universe
  • The world as a network of relations
  • The evolution of time
  • Epilogue: Evolution
  • Appendix: Testing cosmological natural selection.

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