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The Anthropic Cosmological Principle
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In this article, Barrow and Tipler examined the question of Mankind's place in the universe, taking the reader on a tour of many scientific disciplines and offering fascinating insights into issues such as the nature of life, the serach for extraterrestrial intelligence, and the past history and fate of our universe.Abstract:
Is there any connection between the vastness of the universes of stars and galaxies and the existence of life on a small planet out in the suburbs of the Milky Way? This book shows that there is. In their classic work, John Barrow and Frank Tipler examine the question of Mankind's place in the Universe, taking the reader on a tour of many scientific disciplines and offering fascinating insights into issues such as the nature of life, the serach for extraterrestrial intelligence, and the past history and fate of our universe.read more
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The Value of the Cosmological Constant
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The ultimate fate of life in universes which undergo inflation
Frank J. Tipler,Frank J. Tipler +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that life cannot continue forever in any of the standard inflationary models, and that life is ultimately stopped by the Eternal Return Problem: the complexity of a living entity, or more generally the entire bioshpere, is bounded above, and once this upper bound is reached, life either dies out, or begins to repeat its previous states.
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The Historiography of Scientism: A Critical Review
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Entstehen neuer Gesetze in der Evolution der Welt
TL;DR: The downward transition from a more general theory to a special one, however, often reveals a quite different feature. The properties of a system are more dependent on accidental circumstances rather than being purely deducible from the theory at a higher level as mentioned in this paper.
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