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Our cosmic habitat / Martin Rees.

By: Rees, Martin J, 1942- [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]Description: 1 online resource : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781400888986; 1400888980.Subject(s): Cosmology | Cosmologie | cosmology | SCIENCE -- Astronomy | SCIENCE -- Physics -- Astrophysics | CosmologyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 523.1 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE TO THE PRINCETON SCIENCE LIBRARY EDITION -- PREFACE -- PROLOGUE �a#x80;#x9C;Could God Have Made the World Any Differently?�a#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
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE TO THE PRINCETON SCIENCE LIBRARY EDITION -- PREFACE -- PROLOGUE �a#x80;#x9C;Could God Have Made the World Any Differently?�a#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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