Cloth, dustjacket, 8vo 173 pp., figs. Rees writes these 6 numbers as 'script' N, E, Omega, lambda, Q and D. Are their values just coincidences? Our type of universe would not exist with other values�; LIKE NEW condition.

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Title

Just Six Numbers, the deep forces that shape the universe.

Publisher

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson

Publication Date

2000

Language

English

ISBN 10

0465036724

ISBN 13

9780465036721

Binding

Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

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History of science

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How did a single “genesis event” create billions of galaxies, black holes, stars and planets? How did atoms assemble—here on earth, and perhaps on other worlds—into living beings intricate enough to ponder their origins? What fundamental laws govern our universe?This book describes new discoveries and offers remarkable insights into these fundamental questions. There are deep connections between stars and atoms, between the cosmos and the microworld. Just six numbers, imprinted in the “big bang,” determine the essential features of our entire physical world. Moreover, cosmic evolution is astonishingly sensitive to the values of these numbers. If any one of them were “untuned,” there could be no stars and no life. This realization offers a radically new perspective on our universe, our place in it, and the nature of physical laws.

About the Author

Martin Rees is Britain's Astronomer Royal. He is the author of several books, including Gravity's Fatal Attraction: Black Holes in the Universe (with Mitchell Begelman) and Before the Beginning: Our Universe and Others. A member of the Royal Society, the United States National Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and numerous foreign academies, Rees is Royal Society Research Professor at Cambridge University.

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