- Anthropic principle, God, Cosmology, Cosmogony
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.
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- Author
- Paul Davies
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780618592265
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Paul Davies is a theoretical physicist. Davies has worked for much of his career in astrophysics and cosmology, with emphasis on the origin and early stages of the universe, the quantum properties of black holes and the nature of time. He is interested in the nature and origin of life – including extraterrestrial life – beyond Earth, and in complex systems generally.-faculty profile
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