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.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Rees, Martin J., 1942- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Sujets:
Cosmology.
Cosmologie.
cosmology.
SCIENCE > Astronomy.
SCIENCE > Physics > Astrophysics.
Cosmology
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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

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