Our cosmic habitat /
In a compelling new survey of the universe, the noted cosmologist probes the seeming hospitality of the universe to life, wondering whether this fact is accidental or providential.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2017]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE TO THE PRINCETON SCIENCE LIBRARY EDITION
- PREFACE
- PROLOGUE â#x80;#x9C;Could God Have Made the World Any Differently?â#x80;#x9D;
- PART I From Big Bang to Biospheres
- 1 Planets and Stars
- 2 Life and Intelligence
- 3 Atoms, Stars and Galaxies
- 4 Extragalactic Perspective
- 5 Pregalactic History
- 6 Black Holes and Time Machines
- PART II The Beginning and the End
- 7 Deceleration or Acceleration?
- 8 The Long-Range Future
- 9 How Things Began: The First Millisecond
- PART III Fundamentals and Conjectures10 Cosmos and Microworld
- 11 Laws and Bylaws in the Multiverse
- APPENDIX Scales of Structure
- NOTES TO THE CHAPTERS