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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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Bouncing anisotropic universes with varying constants
John D. Barrow,David Sloan +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the evolution of a closed, homogeneous and anisotropic cosmology subject to a variation of the fine structure ''constant'' $\ensuremath{\alpha}$ within the context of the theory introduced by Bekenstein and Sandvik et al. which generalizes Maxwell's equations and general relativity was examined.
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On the Habitability of Universes without Stable Deuterium
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider stellar evolution in universes without stable deuterium and argue that such universes can remain habitable. And they show that stars with initial masses that exceed the Chandrasekhar mass cannot be supported by degeneracy pressure and will explode at the end of their contraction phase.
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Universe creation on a computer
TL;DR: An account of the epistemology and metaphysics of universe creation on a computer is provided, with the acknowledgement that an analog computer simulation can be objectively related to the thing it represents, hence an analogComputer simulation of a universe could, in principle, exist as a universe.
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Constructor theory of life
TL;DR: Neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory explains how the appearance of purposive design in the adaptations of living organisms can have come about without their intentionally being designed as discussed by the authors, which is the basis of our work.
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Preparing for extraterrestrial contact
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the issue of extraterrestrial life to the study of disasters, their prevention and their management, arguing that limiting the scope of disaster research to terrestrial matters is increasingly intellectually untenable.
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