E-Book, Englisch, Band 88, 224 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Science Library
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 88, 224 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Science Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-8898-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Weitere Infos & Material
Preface To The Princeton Science Library Edition ix
Preface xv
Prologue
“Could God Have Made the World Any Differently?” xix
Part I From Big Bang to Biospheres
1 Planets and Stars 3
2 Life and Intelligence 15
3 Atoms, Stars and Galaxies 35
4 Extragalactic Perspective 49 C
5 Pregalactic History 65
6 Black Holes and Time Machines 87
Part II The Beginning and the End
7 Deceleration or Acceleration? 99
8 The Long-Range Future 113
9 How Things Began: The First Millisecond 123
Part III Fundamentals and Conjectures
10 Cosmos and Microworld 141
11 Laws and Bylaws in the Multiverse 157
Appendix Scales of Structure 183
Notes To The Chapters 187
Index 197