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_b.S886 2005
082 0 0 _a523.12 SUS
100 1 _aSusskind, Leonard
245 1 0 _aCosmic landscape
_b: string theory and the illusion of intelligent design
_c/ Leonard Susskind.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York
_b: Little, Brown and Co.
_c, 2005.
300 _axii, 403 p.
_b: ill.
_c; 25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aThe 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.
520 _a"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."
650 0 _aCosmogony.
650 0 _aAstrophysics
650 0 _aIntelligent design (Teleology).
650 0 _aString models.
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