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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Barrow, John D., 1952- Anthropic cosmological principle. Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1986 (OCoLC)565367506 Online version: Barrow, John D., 1952- Anthropic cosmological principle. Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1986 (OCoLC)609472061 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John D Barrow; Frank J Tipler |
| ISBN: | 0198519494 9780198519492 |
| OCLC Number: | 11785412 |
| Description: | xx, 706 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction -- 2. Design arguments -- 3. Modern teleology and the anthropic principles -- 4. The rediscovery of the anthropic principle -- 5. The weak anthropic principle in physics and astrophysics -- 6. The anthropic principles in classical cosmology -- 7. Quantum mechanics and the anthropic principle -- 8. The anthropic principle and biochemistry -- 9. The space-travel argument against the existence of extraterrestrial intelligent live -- 10. The future of the universe. |
| Responsibility: | John D. Barrow and Frank J. Tipler. |
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