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The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life? Book
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Foyles
Paul Davies' The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life? gets to the heart of what makes the universe tick - and what makes our place in it so special.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' Independent Books 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 MoorePaul Davies is 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, including The Eerie Silence:Searching for Ourselves in the Universe, The Goldilocks Enigma:Why is the Universe Just Right for Life? and The Mind of God: Science and the Search for Ultimate Meaning.
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The Goldilocks Enigma is Paul Davies spectacular and eagerly awaited return to cosmology. Here he tackles all the 'big questions' and introduces the latest discoveries that have allowed scientists to piece together the story of the universe in unprecedented detail. And he explains why despite all this cosmologists are more divided than ever. Why is everything just right for life on earth? And how have we tried to explain this? How has belief shaped the scientific debate? What do we really know about our place in the universe? Paul Davies decodes the real science and gets to the very heart of our understanding of the universe.
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BookDepository
The Goldilocks Enigma : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780141023267 : 0141023260 : 01 Apr 2009 : Shows how everything from the humble carbon atom to the speed of light and the laws of physics themselves interact. In this book, the author asks questions such as: 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?
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Blackwell
Shows how everything from the humble carbon atom to the speed of light and the laws of physics themselves interact. In this book, the author asks questions such as: Is there a theory of everything within our grasp? If there was a big bang...
- 0141023260
- 9780141023267
- Paul Davies
- 5 July 2007
- Penguin
- Paperback (Book)
- 368
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