What is included with this book?
Prologue/Revolutions | p. 3 |
Introduction | p. 11 |
the Crisis in Fundamental Physics | p. 21 |
Light and Life | p. 23 |
the Logic of Atomism | p. 30 |
the Miracle of the Stars | p. 36 |
the Dream of Unification | p. 47 |
the Lessons of String Theory | p. 58 |
an Ecology of Space and Time | p. 73 |
Are the Laws of Physics Universal? | p. 75 |
Did the Universe Evolve? | p. 90 |
Detective Work | p. 107 |
the Ecology of the Galaxy | p. 116 |
Games and Galaxies | p. 129 |
Th E Organization of the Cosmos | p. 139 |
What is Life? | p. 141 |
the Cosmology of an Interesting Universe | p. 161 |
the Flower and the Dodecahedron | p. 177 |
Philosophy, Religion, and Cosmology | p. 192 |
Beyond the Anthropic Principle | p. 202 |
Einstein's Legacy | p. 211 |
Space and Time in the New Cosmology | p. 213 |
the Road from Newton to Einstein | p. 222 |
the Meaning of Einstein's Theory of Relativity | p. 233 |
the Meaning of the Quantum | p. 240 |
Einstein's Revenge | p. 255 |
Cosmology and the Quantum | p. 257 |
a Pluralistic Universe | p. 267 |
the World as a Network of Relations | p. 276 |
the Evolution of Time | p. 285 |
Epilogue/ Evolutions | p. 294 |
Appendix: Testing Cosmological Natural Selection | p. 301 |
Notes and Acknowledgments | p. 324 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 337 |
Glossary of Scientific and Philosophical Terms | p. 342 |
Index | p. 347 |
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