Just Six Numbers - The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe (Science Masters)
Language: English
Published by The Softback Review, London, UK, 2000
- First Edition
- Softcover
- New
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First Paperback Edition / First Print (first published in hardback by Weidenfeld in 1999). Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 173pp. (45/5).
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- Title
- Just Six Numbers - The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe (Science Masters)
- Author
- Rees, Martin
- Publisher
- The Softback Review, London, UK
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0297842978
- ISBN 13
- 9780297842972
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 451 grams
- Dimensions
- 15.5 centimeters width by 24.1 centimeters height by 2.2 centimeters depth
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Review
This is familiar ground, though rarely so comprehensively explored. What makes Rees's book exceptional is his conviction that cosmology is as materialistic and as conceptually simple as any of the earth sciences. Indeed,
cosmology is simpler in one important respect: once the starting point is specified, the outcome is in broad terms predictable. All large patches of the universe that start off the same way end up statistically similar. In contrast, if the Earth's history were re-run, it could end up with a quite different biosphere.
Rees demonstrates how the cosmos is full of "fossils" from which we can deduce how our universe developed as surely as we infer the earth's past from the relics found in sedimentary rocks. Rees's theme is nothing less than the colossal richness of the universe. It is an ambitious book, but if anything, it deserves to be longer. --Simon Ings, Amazon.co.uk
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