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Cosmic landscape : string theory and the illusion of intelligent design / Leonard Susskind.

By:

Susskind, Leonard

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Little, Brown and Co. , 2005.Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 403 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

0316155799

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

523.12 SUS

LOC classification:

QB981 .S886 2005

Contents:

The world according to Feynman -- The mother of all physics problems -- The lay of the land -- The myth of uniqueness and elegance -- Thunderbolt from heaven -- On frozen fish and boiled fish -- A rubber band-powered world -- Reincarnation -- On our own? -- The branes behind Rube Goldberg's greatest machine -- A bubble bath universe -- The black hole war -- Summing up.

Summary: "Anthropic Principle - a hypothetical principle that holds that the universe is fine-tuned so that we can be here to observe it. Many physicists have worried that embracing the Anthropic Principle will spell an end to scientific progress, but in The Cosmic Landscape, Leonard Susskind shows how string theory, rather than reaching a dead end, has led to a vastly expanded concept of the universe, in which the contentious principle makes perfect sense."

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	523.12 SUS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Expurgado/No disponible		027398

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Anthropic Principle - a hypothetical principle that holds that the universe is fine-tuned so that we can be here to observe it. Many physicists have worried that embracing the Anthropic Principle will spell an end to scientific progress, but in The Cosmic Landscape, Leonard Susskind shows how string theory, rather than reaching a dead end, has led to a vastly expanded concept of the universe, in which the contentious principle makes perfect sense."

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