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The anthropic cosmological principle / John D. Barrow and Frank J. Tipler ; with a foreword by John A. Wheeler.
- Title
- The anthropic cosmological principle / John D. Barrow and Frank J. Tipler ; with a foreword by John A. Wheeler.
- Author
- Barrow, John D., 1952-2020
- Publication
- Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1988, c1986.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Tipler, Frank J.
- Description
- xx, 706 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Oxford paperbacks
- Subject
- Note
- "First issued (with corrections) as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1988"--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Design arguments -- Modern teleology and the anthropic principles -- The rediscovery of the anthropic principle -- The weak anthropic principle in physics and astrophysics -- The anthropic principles in classical cosmology -- Quantum mechanics and the anthropic principle -- The anthropic principle and biochemistry -- The space-travel argument against the existence of extraterrestrial intelligent life -- The future of the universe.
- ISBN
- 0192821474
- LCCN
- ^^^87028148^//r962
- OCLC
- 16830384
- SCSB-12577389
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library