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Cosmic jackpotPaul Davies

Cosmic jackpot

2007336 pages
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Physicist Paul Davies shows how recent scientific discoveries point to a perplexing fact: many basic features of the physical universe--from the speed of light to the most humble carbon atom--seem tailor-made to produce life. A radical new theory says it's because our universe is just one of an infinite number of universes, each one slightly different. Our universe is bio-friendly by accident; we just happened to win the cosmic jackpot. While this multiverse theory is compelling, it has bizarre implications, from infinite copies of each of us to Matrix-like simulated universes. Davies…

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  • Other · English · 2007
    Houghton Mifflin · 336 pages · 9780618592265
Anthropic principleGodCosmologyCosmogonyTeleological ProofLife on other planetsHuman beingsTeleology